Altinkum Didim
Altinkum is a small popular resort situated on the Aegean coast. The name of the resort translates to golden sand and this resort certainly lives up to its name with three long smooth golden beaches, the sea is shallow for quite a long way out which is ideal for families with children who like to have a cooling time in the sea whilst their parents soak up the sun.
Altinkum caters for simply everyone as during the day its a quiet relaxing resort and by night is livened up by the numerous bars scattered around the resort. For tourists looking for a quiet holiday there are family aimed bars with fun atmospheres and light music, for tourists looking for a lively night out there are bars with a more fast pace aswell as nightclubs including an open air nightclub with very lively music and shows.
As for restaurants not to worry for the fussy eaters as every restaurant offers a full english menu with light snacks or roast dinners. For the more adventurous tourists all restaurants offer traditional Turkish cuisine which you musnt pass up as it is very tasty indeed. In the centre of Altinkum you wil find a shopping centre with cash machines available just outside which you will find is a great convenience to all. The turkish people working around the resort are very hospitable and eager to please and most speak fluent english so you can definatly have things exactly the way you want.
Altinkum has a delightful marina full to the brim of boats waiting to take you away for the day on a trip around the beautiful bays and various islands and beaches surrounding Altinkum. The boat will stop at various intervals allowing you to get off and dive into the clear waters or to just relax and soak up the sun on the deck where waiters will gladly bring you refreshments.
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Didim is a small holiday resort on the Aegean Coast of Turkey. Didim is about 150 km away from Izmir and can be reached by local minibuses both from Izmir or Bodrum airports. Didim takes its name from the antic city of Didyma. Didim is a very popular holiday resort with its long sandy beaches, watersports facilities, a waterpark, Didyma antic city ruins and the Temple of Apollo at Didyma. Didim neighbors the Bafa Lake National Park, the Buyuk Menderes River (historic name Maeander) and antic cities Miletos and Priene.
Didyma was an ancient Greek City located just outside the modern Didim. Didyma had never been a large city, its fame was rooted from the existence of the sacred spring of the city and the Temple of Apollon. Didyma was connected to Miletus by sea. Those arriving by ship would land at the Panarmus port and follow the famous the Sacred Way to Didyma. Didyma was administered by the Branchidae family which claimed to be the priests of Apollon. Didyma was completely destructed by the Persians in 494 BC. About 160 years later, Didyma was again captured by Alexander the Great who placed the administration of the city in the hands of the city of Miletus. In 300 BC the Mileasians started to build the largest temple in the Greek World. Although the construction continued until the 2nd century AD, the great temple was never completely finished. In the following years a church and barracks for the Byzantine army were built. A great earthquake in the 15th century devastated the settlement.
The first Apollon Temple was built in the Archaic period (8th century BC). Its successor, the Hellenistic temple was built on the foundations of the earlier one. The temple we see today is built in the Ionia period which measures 60 x 120 meters.
Two well-known villages administered by Didim are Altinkum and Akbuk. Altinkum (meaning Golden Sand in Turkish) has 2 main beaches. Both towns, Altinkum and Akbuk offer a quite, peaceful and lively holiday with great beaches
