Mid-range · 6-hour walk · Antalya
The museum and the waterfalls in six hours
One of Turkey's great archaeological collections, the long pebble beach and the falls that drop into the sea.
The three-hour route walks Kaleiçi inside the old walls. This goes outside them, west along the shore to the museum and the beach and then east to the Düden falls, where a river that runs underground for most of its course comes out of a cliff and falls forty metres straight into the Mediterranean. The tram along the clifftop does most of the moving.
The route, stop by stop
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Antalya Archaeological Museum
Arrive by tram from the previous stop
Sculpture from Perge filling several halls, including a Hall of Gods that would anchor a national museum anywhere else. Consistently rated among the best in Turkey.
95 min here Walk here → -
Konyaaltı Beach
Arrive by tram from the previous stop
Seven kilometres of pebble under the Beydağları mountains. Blue Flag, with the cliff walk above it if you would rather stay dry.
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Hıdırlık Tower
Arrive by tram from the previous stop
A 2nd-century Roman tower of uncertain purpose — tomb or lighthouse — on the cliff at the edge of Kaleiçi, and the sunset spot.
25 min here Walk here → -
Karaalioğlu Park
Clifftop gardens east of the tower with the whole bay and the mountains behind it.
35 min here Walk here → -
Atatürk Parkı
The clifftop park running west from Karaalioğlu above the sea, with the Beydağları across the bay and a path along the edge the whole way.
40 min here Walk here → -
Lower Düden Waterfalls
Arrive by taxi from the previous stop
Where the Düden river drops forty metres off the cliff directly into the sea. Viewing platforms above, and boats that go in under the fall.
65 min here Walk here →
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