MILETOS, PRIENE & BAFA LAKE

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imx tour special tour from Altinkum and other cities of Turkey,

The trip Includes visitıng 3 amazing places near Altinkum, its only 30 minutes from Altinkum to Bafa Lake and 20 minutes to miletos, 7 minutes to Priene from Miletos.

MILETOS

Miletus  was an ancient Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia near the mouth of the Maeander River in ancient Caria.Before the Persian invasion Miletus was considered the greatest and wealthiest of Greek cities.Evidence of first settlement at the site has been made inaccessible by the rise of sea level and deposition of sediments from the Maeander. The first available evidence is of the Neolithic. In the early and middle Bronze age the settlement came under Minoan influence. Legend has it that an influx of Cretans occurred displacing the indigenous Leleges. The site was renamed Miletus after a place in Crete.

BAFA LAKE

Lake Bafa Nature Park is a lake and a natural reserve situated in southwestern Turkey, The lake used to be a gulf of the Aegean Sea until the Classical period, when the sea passage gradually closed by the alluvial mass brought by Büyük Menderes River. The gulf, and later the lake, was named Latmus in antiquity. The southern shore of the lake is traced by the highway connecting İzmir-Kuşadası-Söke to towns such as Milas and Bodrum that are situated in the south. The nort