Alanya is one of the best bases on the Turkish Riviera for day trips — you’ve got the sea on one side and the Taurus Mountains rising right behind town, so you can be on a pirate boat in the morning or rafting a mountain canyon by lunchtime. But the strip is crowded with agencies
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Just 8 km from Side, Manavgat makes an easy half-day out — a wide, thundering waterfall on the river, one of the biggest open-air markets on the coast, and gentle boat trips through the delta. It’s not a dramatic, towering cascade, and parts of it are firmly set up for tourists, so here’s the honest
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If you’ve spent a few days on Side’s beaches and fancy something completely different, the Green Canyon boat trip is the one to book. Just 45 minutes inland, the emerald-green waters of the Oymapınar reservoir wind between steep pine-covered cliffs in the Taurus Mountains — it looks more like Southeast Asia than southern Turkey. A
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