Alaplı is the first town to the West of Ereğli. I stopped there for just an hour, because it looked nice on my way up. I was somewhat disappointed: like any Black Sea coast town, and small at that. The one thing that I liked was the wooden interior of the local mosque. I show the few pictures I took mainly because well, I now have them, and maybe someone somewhere is longing to see some pictures of his hometown. For touristic purposes the town is not relevant.