1 Day: ANTALYA- TARSUS-ESHABI KEHF-NUSRET MINESHIP-SAINT PAUL WELL-TARSUS WATERFALL-ADANAWe start our trip by picking you up from the designated meeting points at 22:00 on Friday evening. After our breakfast break on the road, we go to the Eshabi Kehf/Seven Sleepers Cave, located in the north of Tarsus, and visit the cave, which is thought to be the place where the 7 brothers and Kitmir in the Surah Al-Kahf in the Quran slept, and then come to the city, which has been converted into a museum from the original under the leadership of Tarsus Municipality. We see the Nusrat Mine Ship/Museum and take photos. He sees the Well of Saint Paul of Tarsus/Saint Saul, an important person in the spread of Christianity, gives free time in Tarsus Waterfall and reaches Adana, where it becomes the largest Mosque in the Middle East, which was first built with a capacity of 20,000 people by the Seyhan River. We visit the Sabancı Central Mosque, which has a special feature. Afterwards, we see and take photos of the Atatürk House and Cinema Museums, and then we see and take photos of the Stone Bridge, which is the symbol of Adana and is a Roman Period Bridge built on the Seyhan River. After visiting the Ulu Mosque located within the Ramadan Sons Complex, we visit this historical Mosque, which was built on the foundations of an old Armenian Church and is called the Oil Mosque because there is an oil market in front of it and it is sold. After our free time, we will visit this historical Mosque, with the leadership and organization of Adana Metropolitan Municipality. We participate in the Orange Blossom Scent Festival, which is held with the participation of tradesmen and non-governmental organizations and is the first carnival of our country. At events; We watch the extremely colorful and enjoyable Orange Blossom Carnival with dance groups, mimes, street musicians and participants in interesting costumes, accompany the dance shows and songs, take photos and meet our vehicle to go to our hotel.
Breakfast: Extra
Lunch: Extra
Dinner: At the hotel
Hotel to stay: Mersin Eniza Hotel https://enizahotel.com
2 Day: MERSİN- KANLIDİVANE-ASTM CAVE-KIZKALESİ-HEAVEN AND HELL SINKLETS-ANAMUR MAMURE CASTLE-AYNALI LAKE (GİLİNDİRE CAVE)After breakfast at the hotel in the morning, we take a panoramic city tour and go to the ancient settlement of Kanytella, today known as Kanlı Divane, which was within the borders of Rough Cilicia in the Ancient Period. Settlement activities, which started from the Hellenistic Period (3rd century BC) around a large depression in the center called Kanlı Divane Sinkhole, continued uninterruptedly until the Late Antique Period (7th century AD), and from the 15th century onwards, Turkmen groups They started to settle in the region. It is a natural pit with a length of 142 m, a width of 95 m, a circumference of 413 m, a depth of 50 m and a surface area of 12,000 square meters, which was formed as a result of the collapse of the sinkhole ceiling, which is located in the center of the ancient city. After our free time here, we go to Astim Cave, which is our first stop in the Silifke region, known as the Cilicia region, which is a 200-meter-long stalactite - stalagmite and natural cave that has been formed over thousands of years. After our Asthma cave tour, we visit the historical and very deep naturally formed caves known as Heaven and Hell Sinks or Heaven and Hell Sinkholes. Afterwards, we see Maiden's Castle and after our free time here, we visit Mamure Castle, a medieval castle located along the coast in Mersin's Anamur district. As we continue our trip, we visit the Aynalıgöl Gilindire cave, which was found by chance by a shepherd, with its entrance facing the sea and a small village right in front of it. There is a large lake with a width of 18-30 meters, a length of 140 meters and a depth of 5-47 meters in the cave, which is covered with all kinds of dripstone formations with a total length of 555 m, a depth of -46 m from the entrance and a height of 22 m from the entrance. With a change in the hydrological regime, Formations such as stalactites and stalagmites have survived to this day without being affected by atmospheric changes by remaining under water. It has been understood that the submerged formations were formed before global climate change and that they retain all hydrological and atmospheric data regarding the previous Ice Age. With these features, Gilindire Cave is the only recording point in the Eastern Mediterranean regarding the last climate change. There is a large lake in the cave with a width of 18-30 meters, a length of 140 meters and a depth of 5-47 meters. After our trip to the cave, which was registered as a natural monument in 2013 and declared a natural park in 2021, we start our return journey to Antalya. We arrive in Antalya around 21:00 and say goodbye to meet on our next trip.
Breakfast: At the hotel
Lunch: Extra
Dinner: Extra
