Kusadasi has many exciting excursions and activities to offer to include jeep safari trips, Turkish nights and horse safaris, just to name a few. These trips are a must as they will enable you to see more of Kusadasi and the wonders of the country and learn a little more about the culture and magic of Kusadasi.

GEOGRAPHY

"The gateway between Europe and Asia..."
"The cradle of civilisation…" 
"A country situated at the heart of the oldest continents of earth..." 
"The crossroads of many important routes since centuries..."
"A bridge between ages, nations and civilizations..."

If you ever take a look at some of the related publications, you will see that almost every passage presenting Turkey begins with such phrases. This is natural, because Turkey is a unique country with a unique geographical location, linking East to West, and offering the present together with the past. Here, history and geography live side by side, harmoniously. The gifts of nature stand all over the country, carrying signs from the earliest ages of humanity. Although it is impossible to separate one from the other, an introduction to the country's physical characteristics will help you understand its history and its treasures much better.

The actual area of Turkey inclusive of its lakes, is 814,578 square kilometers, of which 790,200 are in Asia and 24,378 are located in Europe. The European side is divided from the Asian side by the Istanbul Bogazi (Bosphorus), the Sea of Marmara, and the Canakkale Bogazi (Dardanelles). About three percent of the country is in Europe. South and east of the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus stretches the peninsula known as Asia Minor or Anatolia, which means in ancient Greek, ''the lands, from where the sun rises ''. Sharing land frontiers with Bulgaria and Greece in Europe and six Asian countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq and Syria) Turkey is bounded on three sides by the sea: the Black Sea to the north, the Aegean to the west and the Mediterranean in the south. This peninsular geography provides the country with an extensive and attractive coastline, certain parts of which have proved to be the main focus for Turkey 's current foreign buyer-driven property boom.

Turkey 's climate is generally described as temperate; however, the great diversity of the terrain - especially the distribution of mountain ranges running parallel to the coast - leads to a variety of different climatic conditions. These climatic variations have resulted in the development of a great many different types of flora and fauna: over 9,000 different varieties of plant can be found in the country.

Anatolia is a high plateau region rising progressively towards the east, broken up by the valleys of about 15 rivers, including the Dicle (Tigris) and the Firat (Euphrates). There are numerous lakes and some, such as Lake Van, are as large as inland seas. In the north, the eastern Black Sea Mountain chain runs parallel to the Black Sea; in the south, the Taurus Mountains sweep down almost to the narrow, fertile coastal plain along the coast. Turkey enjoys a variety of climates, ranging from the temperate climate of the Black Sea region, to the continental climate of the interior, then, to the Mediterranean climate of the Aegean and Mediterranean coastal regions. The coastline of Turkey's four seas is more than 8,333 km long.

But Turkey is, above anything else, a huge open-air museum, a repository of all civilizations nurtured by the soils of Anatolia. The huge amount of historical and archaeological wealth in Turkey seems more appropriate for an entire continent than a single country. For centuries, Turkey has been a crossroads of religions, not only of Islam and Christianity, but of many others now forgotten by history. Many religious devotees can find a site, a shrine, a monument, a tomb or a ruin connected with their faith or belief. Turkey is a country located at a very strategic point where the three continents of the old world (Asia, Africa, and Europe) are closest to each other and where Asia and Europe meet. Because of its geographical location, Turkey has always been important throughout history and is the birthplace of many great civilizations.