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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Kalkan is, quietly, one of the best places to eat on the entire Turkish coast. For such a small town it has a remarkable number of restaurants, many of them stacked on rooftop terraces with sweeping views over the harbour and bay. And unlike some tourist towns, the food generally lives up to the setting.
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Let’s be honest from the start: Kalkan is not a traditional sandy-beach destination. The town sits on a steep, rocky coastline, so the “beach” experience here is a little different and, once you understand it, rather wonderful. You swim from beach club platforms, take short trips to two of Turkey’s most beautiful beaches, and reach
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Kalkan does accommodation differently from most of the Turkish coast. There are very few big resort hotels here. Instead, the hillside is covered with private villas and small boutique hotels, which is exactly why the town feels so calm and uncrowded. Choosing where to stay in Kalkan comes down to two questions: villa or boutique
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Kalkan is the kind of place people fall for and quietly return to year after year. Tucked into a steep horseshoe bay on Turkey’s Turquoise Coast, it trades the big all-inclusive energy of Antalya’s eastern resorts for cobbled lanes, bougainvillea-draped Ottoman-Greek houses, and rooftop restaurants stacked up the hillside. It is officially part of the
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