did we just stumble into paradise
merhaba everyone today we decided to do a day trip from İzmir to Alaçatı we are here
all day today to just to explore this beautiful little quaint town show you a little bit around
go to some beaches and explore and obviously take you on the journey with us so let's
do this together Alaçatı is roughly around 80 kilometers outside of İzmir and we decided to
take the bus from an Otogari or a bus station in İzmir 140 lira for both of us to get out here
what an experience it was super quick fast easy and now we're here so let's
go and explore beautiful Alaçatı right now obviously we are in the center of Alaçatı
exploring around and look at the decor of all of these places really interesting beautiful kind of
cocktail bars hipster cafes etc and i love the kind of like boho chic vibe that's going on mixed
some places have more of like a maritime vibe as well but this place is absolutely beautiful we're
going to be walking around here for a while checking it out it's mostly pedestrianized
but there is also casual mopeds passing through
but there's plenty of amazing restaurants all around loads and loads of options for you to get
a bite to eat here as well now what luke already said is so true everywhere here you can really see
a boho chic type of vibe mixed in with a little bit kind of greek architecture and vibe but what
i find super astonishing here is that there are loads and loads of mirrors everywhere so no matter
where you look you will find mirrors and it really makes like it gives a very special feeling to
this village which which i have never seen or experienced before to be honest it's just
so beautiful just seems like there's so much love for every single detail here in this town you find
flowers and flower pots decorations and so on everywhere scattered around the village and this
is something that i particularly love if you see it seems like local farmers are kind of selling
their fruit and produce which i absolutely love if we were staying here
i would probably buy this entire thing all of the melons they look so nice oh my god
Alaçatı or as it once was known as Agrilia and was once inhabited by the greeks all the way up
until the 1920s then Alaçatı was forgotten about up until roughly around the early 90s
and then it became inhabited mostly by turkish travelers and tourists who wanted a laid-back
chill beach place to come hang out live life and live a pretty good life at that as well
if you are looking to find this area in particular on google maps just type in Alaçatı çarsi
and you will be brought to this absolutely stunning location just look around
it does not take much imagination to think that you really would enjoy coming here
we are enjoying every second since we arrived we're kind of just constantly
blown away by this place now i'm just walking around with an open mouth like wow
and i want to take a picture of everything so if you like instagram or something like that this is
the place yeah this is really the place if you're into your social media and there's an unlimited
amount of options as i said for cafes restaurants everything that you can imagine now i'm pretty
sure accommodation rates and stuff like that they will be slightly higher here than they are
in İzmir but handily enough you can get here from İzmir as we said on the bus so make that a must do
on your list because this place is unbelievable now we are going to explore around a little bit
more and show you guys some more of the center of Alaçatı let's go how interesting is this
you've got these like multi-colored giraffes and a giant pink gorilla as well here on the balcony
this is actually one of the main reasons why people come and visit Alaçatı is the architecture
believe it or not walking around here it's very hard to determine whether you're in the caribbean
coast of mexico or on the aegean coast of turkey but this place just absolutely jaw-droppingly
beautiful we just made a quick little pit stop at an absolutely beautiful cafe and we grabbed
ourselves two green teas and wow the interior of that cafe it was a little bit like a garden cafe
but the design the atmosphere everything about it was just perfect and now we found a beautiful
market it seems to be a pretty large marketplace that stretches quite a bit so have a look
how cool is this it's amazing it's called Çatladikapi by the way i love that cafe place as well
it was a little bit on the expensive side but that was obviously anticipated for where it was located
it was amazing so good but now we found this amazing market looks like they have
a lot of like crafty type of items some souvenirs some jewelry cool really cool
you wouldn't think by the small size of Alaçatı just how much stuff
they can cram into a small beach town look at this it's just an epic market full
of amazing souvenirs different things that you can buy yourself have a look at this
some beautiful jewelry
i still need a bracelet from turkey i usually get a bracelet in every single country
so now i need a bracelet from turkey as well but i'm not 100 on what to get yet we also need a
sticker for our laptops as well we always try and get stickers from different countries but we have
not been able to find a turkish flag sticker yet maybe soon not yet but we will maybe in antalya
or ankara in the future for sure this place is awesome so cool oh they even have handbags as well
beautiful restaurant/cafe here it's done very much so in like a blue and white maritime
theme but wow we genuinely never want to leave this place just gets better and better everywhere
you go it's amazing we really want to buy everything that we see as well i don't know about
luke but i am getting hot McHottersten here what kind of feel like i'm boiling alive bro what are
you talking about man so we are going to go and grab a taxi or something like that to the beach
and try not to get his while doing so did you just say hot McHottersten i'm getting Hottie McHottersten guys
Alaçatı the center one of the most beautiful towns that i think we have visited almost
so far since we started traveling wow wow just you have to go and see it for yourself
but yeah we are feeling the beach right now now yeah this the city center here is so scenic
or town center i don't know how you would describe it if it's a city or a town probably more
of a town but it's super scenic and you want to take pictures of everything when you go there
so anyway we are going to have a look for a taxi to go to the beach and let's do this just on our
search for some taxi to get to the beach we walk past a really cool old looking windmill that was
kind of on top of a little hill or a mound and yeah Alaçatı seems to be known a little bit for
their windmills we saw quite a lot of windmills on the bus on our way to Alaçatı here we are
we're at the taxi rank and give you guys a little bit of a look at what this looks like
it's pretty busy it is peak season summer right now so everybody is trying to get to the beach
so we attempted to get in a taxi but the taxi driver said that there's a minibus that
goes to Ilıca which is where we're headed we're headed to a place called Ilıca Plajı
or Ilıca beach and supposedly a pretty highly rated beach sandy beach and
should be a pretty relaxing place to enjoy and explore so right now we're on the mini
bus i think it was like 11 lira to get on eleven lira per person yeah doesn't get much
better than this guy is exploring around the Alaçatı area let's go to the beach
alright guys so we made it to Ilıca beach for Ilıca Plajı absolutely jam packed that's kind of
obvious it is peak season august right now coming into the middle of august there is literally
thousands of people sunbathing and swimming all along this very long sandy strip of beach but that
is not gonna stop us from going and taking a dip in this crystal clear blue water wow so excited
wow first time touching the water here in Alaçatı and it is warm remember the last time when we were
in Çanakkale the water was a little bit on the cold side this one here just feels like
you enter the tub and it's stunning you can walk out for probably a kilometer here and still not
be under the water but i'm gonna take a dip anyway in knee high water what i do for this
we just walked away from that sandy beach for a little while just to kind of see what else
the area here has to offer and we found a love Atatürk forever sign
but also when you walk away from that sandy beach a little bit you can find loads and loads
of little beach clubs where you can get those sun loungers and umbrellas and stuff like that
for some money we didn't ask now how much it was but i'm sure it's not going to be
extremely expensive and they have loads and loads of restaurants and cafes here directly
at the beach or let's say at the pier and down here it seems to be a little bit more
quiet it seems like it's a little bit away from the hustle and bustle of the
larger sand beach over there because obviously the other beach is a public beach and this one here
you have to pay but this area here is simply stunning and even if you get into the water
i don't know if you can see it over there if you get into the water they have all of these ladders
so that you can get in the water a little bit easier here in and out obviously hopefully out
but the water here is a lot deeper as well because as if you remember at the other beach i said you
could probably walk out for a kilometer and still not be underwater uh here it seems like the water
is kind of chest high immediately so maybe not i think for you if you have small kids but if
you're just out here with your partner kind of exploring around i'm sure this area is so stunning
after a few hours of exploring swimming and enjoying the beach area here at Alaçatı
and Çeşme area we are just absolutely exhausted we spent a good few hours in the water we also
explored up and down the beach area we even stopped off in a nice beachside cafe i grabbed
myself a cappuccino and naomi went for an iced tea as well limonata limonata yeah but it was
a fantastic day fantastic experiences all around and now enjoying some fruity snacks i got myself
a nice fresh banana i have very special camera equipment some plums in a gopro case
but nonetheless we're enjoying our snacks our bus we just purchased tickets for our bus to
head back towards İzmir it comes in the next hour so roughly around 7pm but guys
Alaçatı Alaçatı so worth it so worth it yeah it's a truly a spectacular place maybe if you want
to have a little bit more of a calm time i suppose it would be better to come here maybe in september
because august seems to be very very busy everybody is here around the town around the beach
i'm sure that the main old town where we have been at the beginning of the video gets really
crowded in the evening so if you're more of a calm person try to go maybe towards september
if you like the hustle and bustle mid-august is your time yeah for sure the beach that we went to
which was called Ilıca i believe it was absolutely
bonkers crazy thousands of people that were there swimming and enjoying their time but
nonetheless that creates a fantastic atmosphere everybody was having a good time with their
family kids were in the water swimming and it was a nice shallow and easy going beach as well
so we had a great time we had a great time and we definitely will be back here at some
stage but for now guys my name is luke my name is naomi we are the two mad explorers and this
is your reminder to keep exploring see you guys in the next video thanks for watching ciao you