Have you ever seen Antalya Aquarium up close? The largest tunnel aquarium complex on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, which can bring you entertainment and education in addition to the pleasure of walking next to the fish. To put it more simply, this aquarium is designed in such a way that by entering it, you can watch more than a few thousand aquatic species and even feed them.
The visiting period of this aquarium is from April to November, that is, in the hot seasons, every day from 9:30 to 23:00 and in the winter season, every day from 10:00 to 20:00. It goes without saying that the aquarium door will be closed 1 hour before the scheduled time so that no one else will enter it.
The important thing here is that the entire viewing route from the aquarium, zoo, ice world, etc. takes from 4 to 8 hours. One of the attractions of this aquarium is the combination of 4 oceans and the sea. From the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
In addition, I suggest that you don’t miss the snow world, ice museum, 3D cinema, restaurants and cafes when visiting this spectacular aquarium. In the rest of this article, I will tell more and more details about the biggest aquarium in the world.
aquarium tunnel; Swimming with the fishes
Karbeldi designers, who were active on the tunnel project and the Antalya aquarium complex, started the construction of this aquarium in 2011 and opened it in 2012. The aquarium tunnel with a length of 131 meters, a width of 3 meters and a water storage capacity of 5,000 tons forms the main part of this water complex.
In this aquarium, there are 40 themed aquariums with colorful Mediterranean aquatic animals of different ranges. If you divide them into two coral and themed sections, you can feel this diversity better, from live corals, lionfish, clown fish, large eels, seahorses and octopuses in the coral section to the show section known as the shark tank.
I recommend not to miss watching the feeding of the sharks, because it is very spectacular and exciting. This is done every day at regular hours. This tunnel is designed in such a way that you can watch aquatic animals through its glass.
An ocean in Antalya Aquarium
There is even a place for you to rest between the tunnels. Antalya aquarium tunnel is so captivating and attractive that according to statistics, more than 2 million tourists have visited it from 2012 to 2014. Such a number can be great for an aquarium.
In the first part of the aquarium tunnel, you will see one of the largest tropical reefs in the world, in the second part, the lost city of Atlantis, and in the third part, you will see the shipwreck.
Antalya Aquarium; skirt of nature
Although this aquarium is not one of Antalya’s night entertainments, but if after watching the water animals, you want to have a glimpse of the land animals, attractive or even poisonous, the Antalya complex provides you with the possibility to enter the wild park or the zoo. Antalya Aquarium, enjoy seeing the life of land animals.
With this, the officials of this aquarium made the visitors, when visiting the complex, go from the heart of the aquarium and the world of fishes with its different forms to aquatics. It is as if there is a collection of land and water animals in the heart of the modern world whose voices are heard.
3D cinema; Experience living with sharks
It is interesting that Antalya Aquarium also has a 3D cinema. For those of you who don’t want to watch aquatic and land animals up close, or you want to sit on a comfortable chair and just watch boating and fish life in 3D, 3D cinema can be a different experience.
To be honest, you can’t swim with sharks in the aquarium, but the experience of swimming with the wildest and most beautiful aquatic creatures is possible in the 3D cinema of this aquarium, and despite having a safe environment, it will convey the same excitement to you.
Swimming with fishes in Antalya Aquarium
Although this aquarium is not one of Antalya’s water attractions, you must have wanted to go swimming and diving after watching sailing and swimming with fishes in the 3D cinema. If you want to swim in the aquarium waters and among the fishes and marine plants of Antalya Aquarium and experience diving, I suggest you wear a diving suit and go to the sea.
Swimming with fishes in Antalya Aquarium
Snowballing in summer
One of the attractive, most visited and large parts of Antalya Aquarium for foreign tourists in the summer season is a 1,500-meter hall in the snow world. If you go to Antalya on hot days, be sure to visit its snow world. Or if you feel like snow in the middle of summer, you can throw real snow at your friend in the snow world of this aquarium.
Snowballing in summer
Airplane wreckage in Antalya Aquarium
Is it possible to see all the things in the sea in one aquarium? The designers of Antalya Aquarium wanted their aquarium to be so natural that they enlisted the help of an Italian sculptor to design a large plane wreck, a shipwreck, and submarine wrecks as aquarium decorations.
That is, when you visit this aquarium, you will feel more natural, as if you are really swimming and walking on the bottom of the ocean. This is a kind of water entertainment in Antalya.
Image from: DFG Prodüksiyon – 2012 dfgpro.com
Eskimo’s house and Santa’s hut are not empty in Antalya Aquarium
You wouldn’t even think that in Antalya Aquarium you will see the Eskimos’ house and Santa’s hut in addition to the wreckage of the ship and plane. Well, I think this Santa was too little for an aquarium to add. Of course, do not underestimate the pleasure of a hot drink in this space, which can be a good seasoning.
What does Antalya Aquarium have for you?
Don’t miss the facilities of the aquarium, the sights of Antalya, whether it’s comfort or entertainment. You can’t walk into an aquarium tunnel and not need something. While visiting the aquarium, you must visit the aquarium’s shops, cafes and restaurants. Well, the good news here is that the facilities of this aquarium are more than a simple aquarium, in addition to the visual appeal, it has other features that I will mention below.
- Wheelchair rental and a suitable place for a wheelchair
- parking lot
- holding ceremony
- stores
- zoo
- Restaurants
- Children’s playgrounds
- Toy store
- Diving in the water
- Landscapes for photography
What does Antalya Aquarium have for you
In what ways can you go to Antalya Aquarium?
Antalya Aquarium is located in the city of Konyaalti, Antalya province, which I will include its phone number, internet address and address below. In terms of metro and bus access, you can go to Kenyalti beach by bus and sea taxi.
Address: Antalya Province, Turkey
Phone: +90 65 65 245 242
Internet address: antalyaaquarium.com
Antalya Aquarium 6
Sea taxi
To get to this aquarium, you can use the bus station or sea bus/taxi from Kemer city. Kemer sea buses will take you directly to the yacht port at 10:30, 13:30 and 17:30. After arriving at the port, all you have to do is take a UC11-A bus from Cumhuriyet Street, head to Dumplupinar intersection, get off there and take a short walk to the aquarium.
5 ocean travel ticket in Antalya Aquarium
If you have read all the tourist information and facilities of this sightseeing place and are counting down the minutes to go there, the entrance price of Antalya Aquarium will definitely be important to you. This year, the ticket price is 100 Turkish lira per person. Of course, an interesting point is that you do not need to buy a ticket for children under 2 years old.
After all the facilities I mentioned about Antalya Aquarium, I don’t think you have any excuse left. If you want 40 themed aquariums, you want to experience life with dangerous sharks in 3D cinema, if you want cool weather in the middle of summer, you want to go to the zoo, you want to see Santa’s cabin, and if you want to see the world’s largest tunnel aquarium Go to Antalya Aquarium. You can also go to Antalya Mouse Island on your trip to this city.
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