ANAMUR
Last summer, I went to Anamur with my family for holiday. Anamur attracted me with its long beach and clean sea. Accomodation was not a problem. Plenty of small and some bigger hotels offer good quality as well as the restaurants near the small boulevard in Anamur. Yan Hotel,which we stayed at,was suitable to our budget. It was also clean and comfortable. Moreover, I vehemently suggest patatoes of Dutaltı Restaurant in Anamur. They were the most tasteful patatoes I have ever eaten. Additionally, I visited Mamure Castle in Anamur. If you want to take photos of fascinating scenes, you should call in this castle.




Anamur is a town and district of the province of Mersin, on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey, between Alanya and the city of Mersin.



Anamur is Turkey's southernmost point, a coastal resort famous for its bananas and peanuts.

The local economy depends on agriculture, especially bananas and strawberries. The weather here is very, very hot and this is the only part of Turkey that can sustain bananas, there are banana plants everywhere and now other tropical fruits such as papaya, pineapples and avocados are being planted here too. Anamur produces 40% of Turkey's strawberries.


Mamure, the old Crusader castle, well-preserved, about 7 km (4 mi) south east of Anamur. Originally built by the Romans in the third or fourth century AD, it was enlarged by the Byzantine Empire and the Crusaders. After the Seljuk Turkish Sultan Alaeddin Keykubat captured the castle in 1221, he had it rebuilt in its present form. It consists of three courtyards with 39 towers, surrounded by a moat. In one courtyard there is an ancient mosque with a minaret – built by Mehmet Bey of Karamanoğulları in 1300-1308 – which is still open for prayer. There are the ruins of a bathhouse on the opposite side. The castle is in two sections with two lines of ramparts between them, a walkway along the ramparts links the two sides.

You can visit many caves including Çukurpınar, one of the longest in the world, (1420 m) and Köşekbükü (the air is said to be treatment for asthma or malaria).

Additionally. the beaches are important nesting grounds for the sea turtle caretta caretta and the rocky areas of coastline are inhabited by the Mediterranean Monk Seal.