Keeb Tour

Welcome to İZMİR(SMYRNA)

Turkey's third city and its second port after Istanbul, İZMİR - ancient Smyrna - is home to nearly three million people. It is blessed with a mild climate and an enviable position, straddling the head of a fifty-kilometre-long gulf fed by several streams and flanked by mountains on all sides. But despite an illustrious history, most of the city is relentlessly modern, and even enthusiasts will concede that a couple of days here are plenty.

The modern city has been built pretty much from scratch, its central boulevards wide and tree-lined, and is nowadays booming; yet it is also home to some of the more persistent street hustlers in Turkey, a consequence of the disparity between the chi-chi waterfront and the grim shantytowns, further aggravated by the large numbers of foreign servicemen around due to the city's role as headquarters of NATO Southeast.