On a hot Antalya afternoon, when the sun is fierce and the sea feels like a warm bath, the Antalya Aquarium is one of the best places to escape into the cool. Home to the longest tunnel aquarium in the world, a 131-metre glass walkway with sharks and rays gliding overhead, it is a genuine […]
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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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The Çıralı and Olympos shoreline is one long, beautiful beach shared by two very different worlds: the quiet village of Çıralı to the north and the rustic Olympos valley to the south, with ancient ruins right where the sand meets the trees. It is wild, protected, and free of high-rise hotels, which makes it feel
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Olympos is famous for one quirky, much-loved style of accommodation: the treehouse camp. Tucked into the pine forest and orange groves of the Olympos valley, just behind the ancient ruins and the beach, these wooden cabins and raised bungalows have been a backpacker rite of passage for decades. Today the scene has grown up a
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Most ancient cities in Turkey are tidy, signposted, and sun-baked. Olympos is the opposite, and that is exactly why people love it. Set in a green valley where a stream meets the sea near Çıralı, this ancient Lycian harbour city lies half-buried in oleander, fig trees, and wild vegetation, with ruins appearing around almost every
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Çıralı is the antidote to Antalya’s big resort strip. About 80 kilometres southwest of the city, this small village sits behind a long, quiet pebble-and-sand beach, backed by orange groves and pine-covered mountains, with no high-rise hotels in sight. Strict conservation rules (it is a protected turtle-nesting beach) have kept it low-rise and low-key. People
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