The Antalya province is a wonderful place to explore nature and participate in your favorite sports. The region offers a wide variety of sporty activities to try out during your stay.
From group activities like canyoning, hiking, and yoga to solo sports like golf, diving, skiing, and sailing, you will definitely find your heart’s desire in Antalya.
To help you design the perfect stay full of the activities you like, we prepared this complete guide to sports in Antalya. On this page, you will find everything about things to do in the sea, in the mountains, and in the great natural world in Antalya.
Even if you know Antalya well, prepare to be surprised by all the great things Antalya can provide and some things that you probably didn’t even have in mind!
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Belek is located about 30 kilometers east of Antalya and is one of the largest golf destinations around. Over 320 days of sunshine a year create the best conditions for this sport, which has been gaining popularity over the years.
With more than 20 modern international standard facilities, Belek is the seaside resort town with the largest selection for golfers in the Mediterranean and is considered to be a golf paradise par excellence.
Many resorts have their own golf courses, where you can play even in the floodlights. All inclusive resorts offer variety for any non-golfers in the family, with gyms, spa and wellness centers, and their own private beaches by the sea. In all-inclusive golf packages…everything is included.
Selected resorts in Turkey have fully adapted to sports vacationers. For example, the Gloria Sports Arena in Belek offers training facilities for professional athletes, as well as for beginners and vacationers. Here you will find facilities and professional equipment for more than 50 sports.
For golfers, Belek is an ideal destination. It has more than 20 modern international standard facilities. It’s the seaside resort with the largest selection for golfers in the Mediterranean and is considered to be a golfers’ paradise par excellence.
Hotels like, Alibey Sorgun, have more than 100 tennis courts with tennis schools and offer space for international tournaments and amateur teams.
Footballers are also very attracted to Belek. Numerous soccer teams train here due to the favorable climate and the high quality service in the hotels. The facilities are available for amateur clubs in the off-season. Belek has hosted, among others, Werder Bremen, Bayern Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Spartak Moscow, 1860 Munich, and of course, the Turkish national team, Beşiktaş, Fenerbahçe, and Galatasary.
All large resorts have fitness rooms and wellness areas with saunas, spas, and hamams. Depending on the resort, various sports courses are offered, be it yoga, volleyball, basketball, diving, soccer, tennis, or something similar.
Yoga is a very popular sport in Turkey, as much as in the rest of the world. It’s considered a healing process that gives benefits to body and mind in the long run. Turkish practitioners have impressive and quality programs and retreats to offer participants.
If you are not so much into Yoga, but still want to get into a retreat program in Turkey, there are many options available. There are diet retreats, meditation retreats, massage retreats, chi gong retreats, silent retreats, healing retreats, and much more. Turkey is ahead compared to many European countries.
Turkey’s healers have never disappeared and alternative treatments for body and mind are still very popular, even though the country has evolved with modern times.
To get more clarity about retreats in Turkey, please check out our articles about yoga retreats and also retreats in general.
Once seen only as the gateway to the Turkish Riviera, Antalya is today a destination in itself. Located right on the Bay of Antalya (Antalya Körfezi), the largest city on Turkey’s western Mediterranean coastline, it is both classically beautiful and stylishly modern.
At its core is the wonderfully preserved old town district of Kaleici (literally ‘within the castle’), which offers atmospheric accommodation in finely restored Ottoman houses in its winding lanes. The old town surrounds a magnificent Roman port with cliff-top views of misty blue mountain skylines worth toasting.
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