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Looking for a nice, uncrowded
beach with clean,
warm water and good
facilities within a short ride of Istanbul?
So are most of the city's
other 12 million residents, so beaches
near Istanbul are apt to be crowded on any
warm summer day.
Here's are Istanbul's beaches, from
nearest to farthest:
Florya & Ataköy
Florya and Ataköy,
on the European shore of the Sea
of Marmara not far from Atatürk
Airport, are
the city's traditional summer getaway
spots, accessible by banliyö (suburban)
train on the Halkali line
from
Sirkeci
Station.
Princes' Islands
There are a few tiny beaches on
the
Princes'
Islands, and people with
boats row away from the shore and
swim there, but these places are really
mostly for people who know how and
when to go to them.
Kilyos
Kilyos on
the Black
Sea is accessible
by city bus, minibus, fast ferry or
traditional ferry and minibus.
Sile & Agva
Sile (that's
SHEE-leh) and Agva (AH-vah)
are nice long, wide beaches on the Black
Sea coast 72 km
(45 miles) northeast of Üsküdar.
On Saturdays in July and August you
can get
to Sile on a fast catamaran ferry, but
at other times you'll probably take
Bus 139 (Sile) or 139A (Sile
& Agva) from the Harem
Otogar.
In summer there
are about 27 buses per day in
each direction (Harem-Sile and
Sile-Harem) on the 139 route starting
at 06:30
am, with the last bus returning
from Sile to Istanbul at 24:00
(12 midnight).
Bus 139A,
Harem-Sile-Agva, has 15 trips daily in
each direction, from
06:00
am
to 20:30 (8:30 pm).
Farther Beaches
Other beaches, such
as those near
Tekirdag west of Istanbul,
the islands such as Marmara and Avsa in
the Sea
of Marmara, the Gallipoli
peninsula and the northern Aegean
coast,
are really beyond a day-trip from Istanbul.
Fast Ferry from Istanbul to
Sile (Saturdays
in July & August)
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