The 42 km of road from Antalya to Kemer pass through spectacular mountain scenery. This resort town has been carefully designed to blend in with the surrounding scenery and offers an ideal enviroment for a wonderful holiday. The fully-equipped Kemer marina allows yachtsmen to enjoy the unspoiled bays and beaches south of the town. Shoppers will delight in the wonderful range of high quality souvenirs for sale. A beach promenade north of the marina has steps down from its cafes and shops leading directly to the beach. Kemer Beach is a Blue Flag beach. (The term "Blue Flag" coined by the European Union sinifies especially clean beaches). In the Yörük (Nomad) Theme Park you can watch traditional crafts people at work. The adjoining bay is charming and delightful spot with many sports and daily entertainment facilities discreetly hidden among the pines. April is the mounth for the colorful Kemer Carnival. Also in the spring are the yacht races between Kemer and Girne in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, and between other locations.
Kızıltepe, Göynük (Blue Flag) and Beldibi (Blue Flag) north of Kemer and Çamyuva an Tekirova (Blue Flag) to the south, are tourist centers that offer various activites. The holiday villages are all desinged to blend into the forest that encircles them. At the foot of 2575 meter high Mt. Tahtalı (Olympos), 15 km south of Kemer, the three harbors of Phaelis were once a major commerical center. The ruins of aqueducts, agoras, baths, a theater, Hadrian's Gate and an acropolis reveal the city's historical impotance. From the south harbor, look up to Mt. Tahtalı for a spectacular view. The sheltered sandy beaches make a superb playground, and the waters are calm and safe for swimmers.
The ancietnt city of Os is situated on the southern side of Mt. Tahtalı. Oleander and larual budhes shade the Olympos Valley, which can be approached by land or sea. The light playing on the quiet pools of water enhance the mosaics in the bath. A temple gate possibly built during the reigh of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 AD), part of a bridge, and a Roman theater also remain from antiquity. The outher walls and towers around the bay date from date from the Middle Ages.
North of Olympos up from Çıralı Beach is Yanartaş (at a height of 300 meters) where Greek mythology tells us the Lycian hero Bellerophon mounted winged horse Pegasus and slew the fire-breathing Chimaera. Gas which seep from the earth burns brightly at night at this site, which the Byzntines also considered a religious area.

PARKS

 

Here is a very beatiful park at the extreme end of Kemer, behind the marina. You can enter here free charge and make use of its relatively long beach, restaurants , cafes, small shops.

YORUK PARK

The people, who pass their summers on the high plateaus and come down in winters, called yoruk. Now yoruks are certain exists but not more...

Most of them became active merchants or traders while yet others are serving with their minibusses... The fading and rapidly vanishing fetures of yoruk-nomadic life are trying to kept "ethnographically" alive in Yoruk Park, between the marina and Ayisigi Park. You can eat "sac boregi" (a kind of flaky pastry) in one of the tents in the park, and rest in another; while the others are like ethnographical showrooms.

PHASELIS

 

The ancient city of Phaselis is 1 km inside and near the sea shore. Phaselis was an important harbour. There tree main harbours; Norhern, Central, and Southern... the theater and the remains of the buildings along the harbour avenue.

OLYMPOS

Olympus was a member of the Lycan Union. It had lived through the Hellenistic period as an important coastal city. It became a rich city in the time of the Romans.This bright period of the city lasts until the 3 rd Century AD. In later ages, the town was used as a bease of Genoese and Venetian pirates.

The southern entry of the ancient town of Olympus is approximately 500 m away. At the right side a hill which rises steeply is acropolis. At the right, there is the spring, the sourgce, Its water is potable Cold as ice in summer and winter, all around Olympus water gushes out of everywhere. At left there is a stream bed. Across the stream is seen a Byzantine Basilica. There used to be a theater capable of holding an audince of 3000 people.