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Divers Delight
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Currency
Exchange
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CURRENCY:
Turkish Lira (TL)
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Click on the icon below to view
the current rates:
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Banks
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Opening
Hours: Mon – Fri 09.00- 12.00 and 13.30 17.00
Certain
Banks open on Saturdays half day and during lunch hours.
Exchange
Offices are open everyday until around 11.00pm.
Foreign
Currency, Travellers Cheques, and Credit Cards are accepted in
Turkey except the
Scottish Pound and torn or damaged notes.
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Typical Costs
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Three
course meal incl. wine from 10 GBP per person.
Sunbed
Rental per day is 80 pence.
Pint
of beer: 1.50 GBP
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Travel
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Local
‘Dolmuş’ minibus runs from Marmaris to İçmeler and back
again. Get on and off anywhere along the route. Fee:
1,250,000TL
Taxis
are recognised by there yellow colour. The fare shown on the meter
reads according to the distance travelled.
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Inoculations
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Please
see your local GP.
Drink
only bottled water.
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Time
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Turkish
standard time is 2 hours ahead
Greenwich Mean
Time, 1 hour ahead of
Central European Time, and 7 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time.
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Electrical Appliances
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The
voltage is
220 Volts AC in all parts of the country.
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Sun Protection
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The
temperatures rise to a high of 45oC in August so high factor
suntan lotion is essential. Keeping hydrated
with water only is a must!
Children
should be well covered with hats and hydrated.
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Emergencies
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Private
and State hospitals, doctors surgeries and clinics are available
all over Marmaris and Fethiye. Health insurance is highly
recommended.
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Did you know ?
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The
earliest landscape painting in history exists on a wall of
a Çatalhöyük house dating from 6200 BC. |
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In
640 BC coins made of electrum were used by the Lydians in
Sardis (Sart) for the first time in history. |
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The
Temple of Artemis was one od the Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World. |
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The
first man ever to fly was Turkish. Using two wings
Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi flew from the Galata Tower over the
Bosphorus to land in Üskudar in the 17th Century. |
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Mount
Ararat (Ağrı Dağ) is in Anatolia. It is believed that
Ararat is the place where Noah’s Ark landed. Ararat is
the Hebrew form for Urartu, the Assyrian name for a
kingdom that existed in the region from the 11th century
to the 7th century BC. |
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Alexander
the Great cut the Gordian knot near Ankara. The double
knot in Turkish carpets is called
“Gördes Düğüm’ü”
which is the Turkish expression for the Gordian
Knot. |
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