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District and municipality in Adana, Turkey
Photo: Yılmaz Kilim, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Karaisalı is a village in the mountains north of the Cilician Plains, with a population of 1200 in 2022.
Municipality-run restaurant near the ruins. Good menu selection.
Well-maintained mountain bungalows run by Pozantı Municipality.
Friendly efficient place on a hillside above the canyon, also Municipality-owned.
This area is short of accommodation and is usually visited as a side trip touring from Konya, Cappadocia or Ankara to the north, or as a day-trip from Adana, Tarsus or Mersin to the south.
Read in the guideYou need your own vehicle. Take your time, the roads are narrow and twisty.
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