Insight Guides - Insight Guides Pocket Turkey (Travel Guide eBook)

How To Use This E-Book

Getting Around the e-Book

This Pocket Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration and planning advice for your visit to Turkey, and is also the perfect on-the-ground companion for your trip.

The guide begins with our selection of Top 10 Attractions, plus a Perfect Itinerary feature to help you plan unmissable experiences. The Introduction and History chapters paint a vivid cultural portrait of Turkey, and the Where to Go chapter gives a complete guide to all the sights worth visiting. You will find ideas for activities in the What to Do section, while the Eating Out chapter describes the local cuisine and gives listings of the best restaurants. The Travel Tips offer practical information to help you plan your trip. Finally, there are carefully selected hotel listings.

In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

Maps

All key attractions and sights in Turkey are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map], tap once to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

Images

Youll find lots of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Turkey. Simply double-tap an image to see it in full-screen.

About Insight Guides

Insight Guides have more than 40 years experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.

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Table of Contents

Turkeys Top 10 Attractions

Top Attraction #1

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Aspendos

The site of an amazingly well-preserved Roman theatre. For more information, .

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Blue Mosque

Its interior is aglow with thousands of decorated tiles. For more information, .

Top Attraction #3

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Gaziantep Archaeological Museum

Hundreds of square metres of vivid Roman mosaics, the best in the Middle East, form the heart of this astonishing collection. For more information, .

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Hagia Sophia

Completed in AD 537, it ranks among the wonders of the world. For more information, .

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Pamukkale

Mineral-rich springs formed its irresistible travertine terraces. For more information, .

Top Attraction #6

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Ephesus

Its Roman ruins are the most extensive in the Mediterranean. For more information, .

Top Attraction #7

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Patara

Turkeys longest continuous beach, its dunes romantically encroaching on the ruins of an ancient city. For more information, .

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ldeniz

Pine-clad hills and white-sand beaches back the turquoise waters of this beautiful stretch of coastline. For more information, .

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Topkap Palace

Centuries of Ottoman pomp and power are on display. For more information, .

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Nemrut Da

Huge stone heads stare from a mountaintop in the Mesopotamian basin. For more information, .

A Perfect Tour Of Turkey