Kaş is quietly one of the best places to dive in the entire Mediterranean. The water is famously clear, the sites are close to the harbour, and in a single day you can drift over ancient amphorae, explore a sunken aircraft, and swim alongside groupers and turtles. With warm summer seas and dozens of dive […]
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From Kaş harbour you can see it: a colourful little Greek island sitting just across the water. This is Meis, known in Greek as Kastellorizo or Megisti, the smallest inhabited island of the Dodecanese and one of the most charming, low-key day trips on the whole coast. In under half an hour by ferry you
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Xanthos and Letoon are, together, the single most important window we have onto the Lycian civilisation. Listed by UNESCO as one property in 1988, they were two halves of the same society: Xanthos the political and funerary capital, Letoon its sacred religious sanctuary, once linked by a processional road. For anyone interested in ancient history,
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Patara is two extraordinary places in one ticket: an 18-kilometre sweep of wild golden sand, one of the longest beaches in the Mediterranean, and a major ancient city that was once the capital of the Lycian League. You can walk among 2,000-year-old ruins and then swim off an empty, dune-backed beach in the same afternoon.
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When the summer heat becomes too much, this is where locals escape. Saklıkent Gorge, whose name means “hidden city”, is one of the deepest canyons in the world: around 18 kilometres long and up to 300 metres deep, carved by icy snowmelt pouring down from the Taurus Mountains. Walking into it feels like stepping into
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