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Imagine a place of purity, where serene, crisp white connects with flashes of fiery red and mysterious black. The Hillside Su Hotel is an ideal place to hold your board meetings, international conferences and business organizations. On a green bank overlooking the Mediterranean, the hotel offers itself up as a clean white stage on which guests are invited to live out Turkish designer Eren Talu’s dazzling disco dream. Hillside Su Hotel is located on the beach front in Konyalti, 5 km out of Antalya city center. The hotel is the most fashion-conscious beach club on the strip, offering guests the graciousness of an array of stylish day beds and lounges.

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The hotel is a special category hotel located in the Old Town of Antalya, Turkey, just few minutes from Mermeli beach as well as the harbor. The Alp Pasa Charme Boutique Hotel is just 3 kilometres from Konyaalti beach and 8 km from Lara beach. The area attractions includes Selge, Phaselis, Manavgat waterfalls and many more.

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Set on the shores of the Mediterranean amid lush pine forest, the Adam & Eve Hotel is a luxurious modern landmark property located 40 kilometers from Antalya, Turkey. Adam and Eve Hotel is designed as a life style with the purity of life. The hotel has the world’s largest rooms – including 27 suits, the world’s largest pool (100 meters), the world’s largest bar, and the only hotel in the world to include a personal spa in every room. In 2007, Adam & Eve Hotel won the TV Best Design Hotel award. The hotel has been stylishly designed using mirrors, atmospheric lighting and white decor to create a serene ambiance, making the ceilings almost appear to reach to the sky. The Adam and Eve is a minimalist hotel set amidst 100.000 m of vast green forest, inviting you to turquoise Mediterranean, the most pampering and relaxing SPA treatments the finest cuisine from cultures a round the globe not to mention seaside golf. Truly unique Adam and Eve is the sexiest design hotel on the Mediterranean.

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Situated on a beautiful peninsula, Bodrum, home of the famous Greek historian Herodotus, is these days better known as a popular holiday resort. Characterised by sugar-white houses spilling down its hillsides, its bustling bazaars, maze-like old town, historic treasures and shop-lined marina make it ideal for action-seekers, shopaholics and sightseeing fiends. With excellent beaches, lie on the western side of the peninsula and are ideal for swimming, sunbathing and water sports. You can try your hand at water skiing, parasailing, dinghy sailing, windsurfing or perhaps the more sedate pastimes of canoeing or pedaloes. Bodrum is a very lively resort and will suit everybody. There are plenty of shops selling all the fake designer gear and fabulous leather and loads of restaurants catering for everyone. The town’s charm is well-known, attracting a diverse population of vacationers who stroll along its long palm-lined waterfront, while elegant yachts crowd the marina.

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The ancient city of Ephesus (Turkish: Efes), located near the Aegean Sea in modern day Turkey, was one of the great cities of the Greeks in Asia Minor. Ephesus, located 600km (373 miles) southwest of Istanbul, is one of the grandest and best-preserved ruins of the ancient world. According to evidence dating from around 1400 BC, the Hittites were the first to settle the site, which they named Apasas.
From the entrance at the Eastern gate of the city, there is the Eastern Agora, Odeon, the Temple of Domitianus, Polio Fountain, Trajan Fountain, Scolastica Bath, hillside houses, the Temple of Hadrianus, Celsus Library, Lower Agora, Marbled Street, Grand Theater, Arcadianus Avenue and the Church of the Virgin Mary. Near Ephesus is the house of the Virgin Mary.

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The rock formations of Pamukkale are a series of natural shelves and ridges, terraces that have been turned white from the solidified chalky calcium deposit sleft behind as the thermal waters tumble into further basins clinging to the cliff edge below. These impressive mineral hot springs are somewhat similar to the Mamoth Hot Springs in Yellostone Ntl Park, but those are much bigger and more impressive. There you are welcome to take a bath in the various natural ponds. The first thing you will see is a rock platform over 100 m in height rising up from the plain. The slopes of this hill, which look from a distance like a great white speck, are covered with large numbers of pools and terraces. As you come nearer, you will begin to see this natural phenomenon, which resembles a frozen waterfall, in greater detail.

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“Everything is dramatic about the EV hotel from its stark, white, minimalist lines to its location on a hilltop overlooking Bodrum’s Türkbükü bay and the turquoise sea beyond. The hotel, which has just opened, was conceived by architect and interior designer Eren Talu, who had a vision of ‘privacy within a community’, linking the idea of home and hotel and resulting in 48 apartment-style rooms. They are simply styled in sharp white, and each one has a balcony, towelling sofa, plasma TV, CD player and adjustable mood lighting. The fully equipped kitchens boast Smeg appliances and the bathrooms include Jacuzzis. This hotel was built for relaxation, and even those who tire of lazing in the sun on the towelling day beds need not get bored, as there are eight outdoor pools, a spa and fitness centre. Staff will create a tailored ‘personal wellness program of rejuvenation and replenishment’ for each guest.” - Guardian, Sunday June 12, 2005

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Goreme which have the old names of Korama, Matiana and Maccan is 10 km far away from the center of Nevsehir province. The valley created from volcanic rocks is famous with the chimney rocks resulting from the erosion made by the natural factors to these rocks and with the historical richness. It has been an important religious place together with the intensive emigration of the first Christians escaping from the pressure of the Roman soldiers. The population escaped from the pressures has made many abbeys, churches and houses in the volcanic rocks from the valley where they were able to hidden easily. In our days in Goreme are found Elmali Church, Saint Barbara Church, Carikli Church, Tokali Church and Hidden Church and all of these are open air museums. In the churches there are scenes from the life of Jesus, descriptions of the saints who written the Bible and pictures of Saint Barbara and Saint Georgius.

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A HINDI FESTIVAL-DIWALI
The festival of Diwali is one of the most important religious festival in India. It lasts for five days around the end of October. It is the festival of Laxmi, the Goddess who, in the Hindi region, brings peace and prosperity.

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Situated amidst rolling hills, 30 kilometers from the town of Denizli in southeastern Turkey, the splendid ruins of Aphrodisias contain what was once the preeminent temple of the goddess Aphrodite (the Greek goddess of Love) in Asia Minor. Yet long before the Greek sanctuary of Aphrodite was constructed in the 1st century BC, the site was a holy place and pilgrimage destination of immense importance to other cultures.

According to the Suda, before being known as Aphrodisias, the city had three previous names: Lelegon Polis (city of the Leleges), Megale Polis, and Ninoe. The city was later renamed Stauropolis (city of the cross) in the Christian era. The similarities of the goddess Aphrodite to Artemis of Ephesus and other Anatolian mother goddesses are evident in cult statues found at the ruins. In Hellenistic times, she took the form of an ancient nature goddess who was sovereign on the earth, in heaven, and in the oceans and the underworld.

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