4 Amazing Destinations in Turkey

Turkey combines beach holiday with fascinating culture and history more seamlessly than virtually any country in the world. The Turksih peninsula is surround by sea and is the location of one of the most astounding cities in the world - Istanbul! The holiday destination Bodrum is within spitting distance of ancient Troy. The food here will astound you and Turkish red wine and Efes beer will delight you. A trip to Turkey can be one of the most amazing adventures of your life.

ETG Tip: The adventurous should drive the Turkish Black Sea Coast from Istanbul visiting the Ottoman gem of Safranbolu.

You can now download eBook versions Lonely Planet as individual chapters for a few dollars or euros, and read them on your tablet, smartphone, eBook reader or laptop.

Check out more Lonely Planet guidebooks

4 Amazing Places in Turkey

1. Turkey - Thrace & Marmara (PDF) Lonely Planet

Download the eBook version of Lonely Planet's Thrace & Marmara chapter from the Turkey travel guide.

2. Turkey - Izmir & the North Aegean (PDF) Lonely Planet

Download the eBook version of Lonely Planet's Izmir & the North Aegean chapter from the Turkey travel guide.

3. Turkey - Antalya (PDF) Lonely Planet

Download the eBook version of Lonely Planet's Turkey travel guide & theAntalya chapter.

4. Turkey - Cappadocia (PDF) Lonely Planet

Download the eBook version of Lonely Planet's Turkey travel guide & the Cappadocia chapter.

Sponsored link:

Black Sea Circuit

by Chris Raven & Simon Raven

The legends of Jason and the Argonauts, Noah’s Ark and a tribe of fierce female warriors known as the Amazons all originate from the Black Sea. Gripped by curiosity, Simon and Chris fire up their twenty year old Volvo that looks, “as rustic and weather-beaten as a Cold War tank” and embark on a quest to drive full circle around this ancient body of water at the birthplace of civilisation.

Driving the Trans-Siberian

by Simon Raven & Chris Raven

Ever had the desire to jump in your car and keep driving? Well, that is precisely what overland travel writers, Chris Raven and Simon Raven, decided to do whilst stacking boxes of frozen oven chips in a -30 degrees freezer. Not being petrol heads and having zero knowledge of the internal combustion engine, the brothers fired up their rusty Ford Sierra Sapphire and headed east. After clocking up over 11,000 miles, quite literally living in the car, they miraculously arrived in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok in Siberia on the Sea of Japan. What they had in fact done was to drive the entire length of the new Amur Highway before it was finished, which crosses Russia and the notorious Zilov Gap in a 6,200 mile swath of cracked tarmac and potholes. Along the way our trusty heroes drink vodka with Chechen criminals, escape highway robbery, trade banana flavoured condoms with Russian cops, meet the eccentric and plain weird at truck stops in darkest Siberia, endure torturous road conditions and have a race to the finish with the Germans.