Fodor's Expert Review Karain Cave

Termessos Cave

Archaeological digs have proven that Karain Cave was inhabited as far back as the Paleolithic Age, making it one of Turkey's oldest settlements. Later, it seems to have become a religious center for a primitive civilization. Many of the Karain finds—stone implements, bones of people and animals, and fossilized remains—are on display in Antalya Museum, but there is also a small museum on the edge of the high meadow where the cave is located. Part of the cave itself is electrically lighted and open to the public; this is a small site, however, and probably only worth visiting if you have time after seeing Termessos.

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At the end of Yağca Köyü Yolu, off Karain Cad.
Antalya  07190, Turkey

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