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How to go to Ankara Esenboga Airport from the City Center?

One of Turkey's doors opening to the world, Ankara Esenboga Airport has a rather heavy air traffic. At Ankara Esenboga Airport that has been serving since 1955, you can realize your domestic and international travels by the flights of the leading airline companies.

One of Turkey's biggest airports, Ankara Esenboga Airport is also known as our country's most modern and environment-friendly airport. Ankara Esenboga Airport is 28 km to the city center. Located on the border of Akyurt and Cubuk districts, restaurants, cafés, and lounges in Ankara Esenboga Airport give uninterrupted service for 24 hours a day.

Taxi

Taxi is the most comfortable and fastest means of transport to Ankara Esenboga Airport from the city center. You can find the taxis that charge the same price 24 hours a day almost everywhere in the city. Although it may vary by traffic and weather conditions, it takes 40-50 minutes on average to go to Ankara Esenboga Airport from the city center by taxi.

Havas

Havas shuttle buses constitute one of the most preferred alternatives to go to the airport easily. By the services performed for all flights from Ankara Esenboga Airport, the journey to airport takes 60 minutes on average. You can use Havas shuttle buses that depart from points such as ASTI Bus Terminal Arrivals Floor platform no. 129-130, Station Avenue Eryaman High-Speed Train Station, and Pursaklar. For more information, please click here.

Bus

Public transport is one of the alternative means of transport to airport from the city center. Belko Air buses give service under the control of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality. For information on the service times, routes, and fares of the buses number 442K, 442A, and 442B that depart from points such as Kizilay, ASTI, Batikent, please click here.

Car Rental

You can go to the airport through a private travel by benefiting from the options of renting a car meeting your needs from the car rental offices available in Ankara.

General Information on Kars

Kars, an Eastern Anatolia Region city that is virtually a winter postcard, has been one of the most popular destinations recently. In this city that looks like a fable land for its natural beauties, archaeological findings suggest that the first settlement started 1 million years ago. Kars that has hosted many civilizations throughout its history also maintains numerous Eastern Anatolian and Caucasian cultures in its lands, as it is also a border city.

Kars that hosts numerous historical artifacts is flooded by visitors thanks to its numerous historical sites like Ani Ruins, Church of Apostles, and Kars Fortress. This city that reflects its wide cultural spectrum in its cuisine as well is a brand name in Turkey and the world for its honey and yellow cheese.

How to go to the City Center from Kars Harakani Airport?

Open to civil transportation traffic since 1988, Kars Harakani Airport is Turkey's highest airport with an altitude of 1795 meters. 7 km to the city center, Kars Harakani Airport also provides the customs and passport services for the international flights. An air transport bridge for the neighboring cities, there are direct or connecting flights to numerous cities from Kars Harakani Airport. It is possible to find numerous practical transfer options from Kars Harakani Airport thanks to its closeness to the city center.

Taxi

You can prefer taxi that is the fastest and the most comfortable alternative to go to the city center from Kars Harakani Airport. You can go to the city center or any point you want in the city by taxi you can find easily in front of the airport terminal exit.

Bus

Buses and minibuses can also be preferred as an alternative means of transport to the city center from Kars Harakani Airport. By riding the buses that depart separately for each flight, you can go to the Lion Statues in the city center. You can go to the bus terminal from the city center through a brief trip to go to the neighboring cities or the touristic points like Ani Ruins, or ride the Sarikamis municipality buses departing from the city center to go to Sarikamis Ski Center.

Car Rental

If you prefer a private means of transport to go anywhere in the city and the neighboring cities from Kars Harakani Airport, car rental will be a good alternative. You can make your transactions in the car rental firm at Kars Harakani Airport.

What to eat in Kars?

Kars is a city that satisfies its guests in terms of taste variety and gourmet meals. You can try the original tastes freshly in the restaurants in the city center and the districts as well as the stores that sell local products.

The first two tastes you must try in this city are the world-renowned “Kars gruyere cheese” and “Kars aged yellow cheese”. These cheese types are prepared in the form of big wheels. You can buy these cheeses in whole or in pieces, as you wish. You can carry the cheeses you can buy here in vacuum packages to your city in aircraft. Since they are hard and waterless, they will last until you arrive in your destination.

“Kars honey” is also a taste you must try in the city and take with you while returning to your home. The flowers and trees that constitute the natural beauties of Kars are the perfect eden for the bees. The honeydew and flower honeys created through combination of the nectars collected from this special flora by the bees have the aromas you have not tasted anywhere else. This is the perfect opportunity for those who miss and cannot find natural honey.

One of the most important tastes that must be tried in Kars where stockbreeding is widespread is goose meat. The goose meat is cooked in different recipes in numerous restaurants in the city. This meat is generally served in the form of bone-in meat or fillet on bulgur/rice pilaf or in the form of stew potions of again bone-in meat or fillet. You can eat warm soups like “ayran asi soup” in the city and experience Kars cuisine to the fullest with “umac halva” that is a more grainy form of flour halva, which is special to Kars.

Where to stay in Kars?

Since Kars has globally attention-grabbing places like Ani Ruins and Sarikamis Ski Center, there are many accommodation options of high-quality. Almost all of the hotels have free Wi-Fi. You can benefit from the services special to the guests, like the restaurants, in the hotels.

Kars hotels are clustered in the city center and Sarikamis in general. There is no hotel in or with a view of Ani Ruins, but you can stay in a central hotel that is almost two kilometers to the ruins and visit the ruins by car or a day-trip you can buy in the city center.

If you will visit Sarikamis Ski Center, you can stay comfortably in the hotels around the center.

The guests who will stay in Kars can book rooms in Kars hotels online, by phone, or personally in the hotel. However, since it is busy in special days, during festivals, commemoration days, and in the months when the ski season starts, it is beneficial for you to make your plans in advance against the possibility of unavailability of a vacant room. Other than the hotels, there are boarding houses, the guest house of Kars University, and one teacher’s lodge and police lodge in the city center.

Kars is one of the cities that must be seen absolutely with its sights, unique natural beauties, authentic tastes, easy transportation, and numerous shopping and accommodation options.

Must-Do's in Kars

Get ready to travel to one of the most beautiful cities of the east with the Ankara-Kars flight ticket. With its natural wonder highlands, ski centers enchanting with their spotlessly white snow, and heritage resisting the ages, there are many things to explore in Kars. A rich culture accompanying the unique flavors of the region and many more await you in Kars. We have listed for you the things you must make sure to do in Kars after a pleasant journey with AnadoluJet.

• Visit the historical Kars Fortress located at the center of Kars, on a hill overlooking the city.
• Wander the streets of Kars. See the historical buildings that constitute an important heritage of the Baltic architecture. Make sure to see the Revenue Office Building.
• Visit Namik Kemal House where one of the most renowned Turkish men of letters lived during his childhood.
• See the historical heritage and ethnographic artifacts of the city in Kars Museum.
• Go on a journey into the depths of the city’s history in Ani Ruins. See the important buildings like Horomos Monastery, Church of Young Girls, and Fethiye Mosque.
• See hundreds of bird species in Kuyucuk Bird Sanctuary.
• Participate in the ice fishing activities in company with master fishers on the Lake Cildir that is frozen in winter. Have an unforgettable day in the Lake Cildir Festival.
• Enjoy skiing on the mountains covered with spotlessly white snow in Sarikamis Ski Center.
• Explore Kars cuisine renowned for goose in tandoor, hengel dumpling, and hosaf drink.
• Taste the red-spotted fish caught in the frozen lakes of Kars.
• Participate in the off-road tours organized on snowy terrains.
• Eat the chestnuts roasted on heating stoves in the local restaurants of Kars.