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At the moment the weather is holding and on a mirror flat sea the ms Prinsendam entered the port of Antalya. Looking at it the port with the eye of a sailor it comes over a bit strange in comparison with other ports. First of all it is pristine in its cleanliness. Not just the cruise terminal but also the cargo berths. I was used to that for Kusidasi but that is mostly a Cruise port only. Today we saw large bulk carriers docked here and it is still spotless, while they can be quite messy while loading or unloading. Turkish Harbormasters must be very fastidious. The port is sort of L to U shaped with a breakwater protecting the U. To the west there is a large marina, in the middle the cruise terminal and to the East regular cargo docks and this time they were mainly occupied with bulkcarriers. The port has a Free Zone which means visiting ships can purchase stores and provisions tax free. *Antalya always used to be a small town but has in the last decades it has grown to over a million people in the greater Municipal. This makes Antalya a town of two faces. The old town with the port and then on the far side on the top of the hills a white city with apartment blocks where the majority of the locals live. The two seem to be fairly well separated as the old town area which is not exactly busy with locals. So the new world must remain more or less at the new world side. However we called here basically to see all the old stuff. And there is a lot of it and some of it survived very well through the ages. Our roving reporter was today on the city tour which included a visit to the local museum and a walk through the old town.* Most prominent item in the old town is Hadrian’s Gate. Erected after 137 AD when he came to visit. He must have instigated quite a few buildings and other construction throughout […]
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At the moment the weather is holding and on a mirror flat sea the ms Prinsendam entered the port of Antalya. Looking at it the port with the eye of a sailor it comes over a bit strange in comparison with other ports. First of all it is pristine in its cleanliness. Not just the cruise terminal but also the cargo berths. I was used to that for Kusidasi but that is mostly a Cruise port only. Today we saw large bulk carriers docked here and it is still spotless, while they can be quite messy while loading or unloading. Turkish Harbormasters must be very fastidious. The port is sort of L to U shaped with a breakwater protecting the U. To the west there is a large marina, in the middle the cruise terminal and to the East regular cargo docks and this time they were mainly occupied with bulkcarriers. The port has a Free Zone which means visiting ships can purchase stores and provisions tax free. *Antalya always used to be a small town but has in the last decades it has grown to over a million people in the greater Municipal. This makes Antalya a town of two faces. The old town with the port and then on the far side on the top of the hills a white city with apartment blocks where the majority of the locals live. The two seem to be fairly well separated as the old town area which is not exactly busy with locals. So the new world must remain more or less at the new world side. However we called here basically to see all the old stuff. And there is a lot of it and some of it survived very well through the ages. Our roving reporter was today on the city tour which included a visit to the local museum and a walk through the old town.* Most prominent item in the old town is Hadrian’s Gate. Erected after 137 AD when he came to visit. He must have instigated quite a few buildings and other construction throughout […]
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