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Air Sports

Turkey offers a wide variety of air sports, from the peaceful to the thrilling. These include hot air ballooning, paragliding, skydiving, hang gliding, and flying ultra-light aircraft. The availability of any of these activities is naturally dependent on weather conditions.

Diving

The resorts on the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts of Turkey are excellent places to dive from, and most of them offer equipment for rent, instruction and certification, and dive boats. The water is quite clear in this part of the sea.

Spelunking

Turkey is full of caves – about 40,000 of them. This is due to a special geologic condition called karstification, which is prevalent in the area of the Western and Central Taurus Mountains. There are organized tours of some caves and private expeditions as well. It is useful to hire a guide for spelunking adventures, as well as to take extra safety precautions and make sure that someone reliable knows what you are doing and when you are expected to return.

Faith Tours

Several ancient civilizations have lived on Turkish territory for time immemorial and have left their mark on the land in the form of houses of worship. Christian, Jewish, and Muslim architecture has remained in Anatolia, and examples of each are visited on various faith tours. These are unique opportunities to study the history of a single religion or to learn about the many that have come, gone, and stayed over the ages.

Silk Road Tours

Anatolia was also a gateway for trade between the east and the west. Roads have been constructed on this land since the 6th century B.C.E., many of which are still partly visible today. These roads eventually became a network that was joined by other roads coming from more distant lands. This network was called the Silk Road after one of the most prevalent trade items shipped over this passage. Today, there are organized tours tracing parts of the Silk Road that are full of interesting information about the history of this busy area.

Yachting

Turkey is often called a “sailing paradise” because of the abundance of small, private coves and niches on the coastline that allow boaters to drop anchor in a different and more beautiful place each evening. The deep water off the coast takes on a brilliant blue color, which inspired the name of the popular “Blue Cruises”, in which passengers can rent the services of a yacht and crew and spend a set amount of days sailing peacefully through the turquoise waters – fully catered, of course.

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