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| 40 km after the provincial centre of Antalya one arrives at Kemer. The settlement lies behind the bay of the same name, on the plain again bearing the same name extending to the Taurus mountains.
251 species of flowers are grown in the area. According to mythological accounts, Abýhayat/Bengisu, that is, spring of immortality water, should be somewhere in
the sea section of the cape into which Aðva creek at the south-western end of the Kemer bay flows. |
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The area, called Abaawa, that is, "Sacred Water Spring" by the Luwians was subsequently named as "Aðva" through the same phonetic saying by the Turkoman yörüks who later came to the area.
We know that the history of the area goes back to thousands of years before Christ.
According to the Luwian myth, the bull-headed chief god and symbol of masculinity Adra/Toro/Toros, while watching the dolphins swim in the sea, likes it very much and he himself also dives into the sea by jumping over the Mount Tahtalý. |
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| He swims after the fish with beautiful coolers that he sees and arrives at the shore where Mount Çalýþ steeply plunges into the sea.
Adra, who here finds Abýhayat/Bengisu, that is, the spring of sacred immortality water, drinks of the water and becomes everlastingly immortal. Luwians, based on this myth, build the Sacred Temple "Adrawana" meaning the country of Adra, male of the mother goddess, near the water of immortality in the Bay of Kemer.
Deeply impressed by the legend of the sacred temple and Adra/Toro/Toros the god, Alexander the Great also pronounces the name of the temple as "Idyros" with its phonetics in the Hellenic language. |
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Furthermore, the Macedonian historians hastily adapt a version of this myth to Alexander the Great.
According to this, his chef wishes to cook fried fish for Alexander; the fish suddenly become alive and escape by swimming.
The cook also jumps off into the sea after the fish and, reaching Abýhayat/Bengisu, that is, the spring of sacred immortality water, he becomes immortal.
The Taurus myth is preserved in every epoch with its characteristics and sacredness and adapted
to current circumstances. From this, we understand that the ancient city owned a large,
sacred Adra temple as renowned not only in Anatolia but in all of the Mediterranean countries. |
| Upon the very frequent overflowing of the Creek Aðva which was joined by the floodwater from the Taurus mountains the Temple Adra subsequently went into ruins and remained under alluvial earth.
The plains of Kemer and Aðva where the temple was located, which turned completely into a swamp and were abandoned to mosquitoes in time, were improved with the name Eskiköy by the Teke Yörüks towards the end of the 1800s. However, in the place of the village, which was ruined again because of the flood from the mountains, a marshy lake was formed.
The area was rebuilt by the yörüks coming from the Taurus tablelands between 1916-1917. In order to protect the village a protection arch was woven in the form of a stone wall on the slopes of the Mount Kýzýlcýk. |
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This wall was compared to an arch and the village established later became associated with the name Kemer (Arch). In 1992 it became a municipality. The locals of Kemer eventually improved the swamps on the plains of Kemer and Aðva and grew the famous Kemer oranges.
Subsequently, the tourism potential developed in the area at a great pace. The Yörük Park daytime facilities and restaurants, with the ethnographic characteristics of yörük lifestyle, on the Kemer Ayýþýðý Bay are well worth a visit. |
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| Kemer, which was replanned with all its infrastructures in the subject of urbanism has become one of the foremost tourism centres with its touristic facilities renowned throughout the world.
Beycik Tableland in Kemer, thanks to its low level of humidity and cool air and the facilities and villas built among its natural beauties, has turned into a mountain resort. |
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"Altýnlar Tourism Carnival" is organized in Kemer and "Yeþilyayla Oil Wrestling Matches" on Söðütcumasý, Gödene and Belen, of the tablelands on the Mount Beydaðlarý, every year.
On the same tableland jeep-safari tours are organized for tourists.
Furthermore, touristic hiking tours are carried out among the unique natural beauties on the routes of Kemer –Kuzdere –Karataþlar –Sapandere –Aslanbucak. Kemer-Aðva Cape provides excellent means for underwater diving. |
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In brief, Kemer, which was set up by the spring of immortality, today opens the doors of its touristic facilities built to high standards for tourists visiting from all around the world, offers means of shopping with perfect friendship and shows of affection and grants immortal memories and beauties to them through magnificent excursions into nature.
ÇAMYUVA is a narrow plain to the west of the Kemer settlement irrigated by Aðva Creek. Today it is a tourism centre with all its magnificent touristic facilities. |
The most notable aspect of the natural port of Aðva is that it was the place where the battleships Paris II and Alexandra were sunk during the Ist World War in 1917.
KÝRÝÞ is a natural bay of the same name where the blue sea meets the pine forests and enjoys touristic accommodation facilities renowned worldwide.
There are parades through the forest and along the coast between Kiriþ – Çamyuva and Kemer |
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