Day 1
One in the morning, I have just finished packing for my summer vacation in Turkey. This is my eighth time spending my summer there. I have to wake up at 1:30am so that I can leave at 2am and due to the excitement I hardly manage to get even 15 minutes of sleep. Airport Nikola Tesla is one of my favourite places in Belgrade since all my travels and adventures start from there. But this time I felt a lot different than I do usually. I felt nervousness and excitement, I’m sure that is because I have missed Turkey and I couldn’t wait to finally get on the plane. When we were on the plane I drank morning coffee with my mother admiring the beauty of the sun that had just slowly started to rise and the clouds under us, and after that I manage to get about thirty more minutes of sleep. When we were above Antalya, where we were going to land, I start feeling indescribable happiness. No airport feels like the airport in Antalya, the second you get off the plane the heat overwhelms you that you can hardly breathe, but it is my favourite feeling. It is special to me since I come from a very cold country and Turkey has very warm summers, to be honest I don’t think Turkey is cold any season of the year. After passing through a passport control and picking up our luggage we headed to the bus which would take us to our hotel. Our hotel is in the centre of the city in Alanya. Alanya is about an hour and 30 minutes away from Antalya and it is a resort town on Turkey’s central Mediterranean coast (Turkish Riviera). It has wide beaches lined with fabulous hotels and Alanya Castle that stands on a rocky bluff above the beachfront. When we had gotten to the hotel we had to wait for sometime until our rooms were ready so we decided to go on lunch. Last time I was in Turkey was three years ago, and I missed their food so much. Once you enter the dining room, you can see the wide variety of different meat, vegetables, fruits, dishes and sweets. After choosing what I wanted to eat, I move on to one of my favourite things – tea. Turkey, to me, has the best teas in the world. The most popular one is apple, that was my favourite one until I tried blackberry. I like stronger tastes so this one fits me perfectly. After the wonderful lunch at the hotel we decided to rest for a while then leave for the beach. Every hotel has it’s own beach, it is very organised since you don’t have to worry about whether you will find free beach beds if you come on the beach later during the day. The sea in Turkey is about the same heat as outside of the water which is one of the reasons why I choose Turkey as the most perfect place for summer vacation. I have been to many countries such as Spain, Italy and Greece where the water was far colder than in Turkey and it really bothered me that I needed ages to get inside. I can spend hours in the sea swimming and enjoying the waves. When I got out of the water before I laid on my beach bed I took sometime to look around me and admire the beauty. In that moment I realised how lucky and happy I am to be here and that Alanya was, is and will always be the most beautiful place on Earth.
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