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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Kaş does hotels differently. Forget giant all-inclusive resorts — here it’s all about small boutique hotels, design-led guesthouses and cliffside villas with private sea platforms. That makes choosing where to stay more about area and style than star rating: the lively, walkable old town, or the quiet, sea-view Çukurbağ Peninsula. This local guide breaks down
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You’ve almost certainly seen Kaputaş Beach without knowing its name — that tiny crescent of golden sand and electric-turquoise water tucked at the foot of a dramatic gorge, splashed across postcards and Instagram. It’s one of the most photographed beaches in Turkey, sitting on the coast road between Kaş and Kalkan, and it absolutely lives
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Kaş is the Turkish coast at its most charming — a bohemian little town where ancient Lycian tombs sit casually among cobbled streets draped in bougainvillea, and the clearest water in the Mediterranean laps at the rocks below. There are no big all-inclusive resorts here; instead you get boutique hotels, harbour cafés, world-class diving and
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Just along the coast from Kaş lies one of Turkey’s most extraordinary sights: an entire ancient city lying beneath crystal-clear water. The Sunken City of Kekova is a Lycian town that slid into the sea after a 2nd-century earthquake, and today you can glide above its submerged staircases, walls and harbours, gazing straight down through
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Kaş is the Turkish coast at its most laid-back and beautiful — a bohemian little town of cobbled lanes and Lycian tombs, perched above some of the clearest water in the Mediterranean. It’s the country’s diving and sea-kayaking capital, the gateway to the famous sunken city of Kekova, and a launch pad for everything from
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Two of the greatest Roman sites in the world sit right on Belek’s doorstep, and you can see both in a single day. Aspendos has what many archaeologists call the best-preserved Roman theatre anywhere — so intact it still hosts opera and ballet — while nearby Perge is a sprawling ancient city you can wander
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Belek is Turkey’s most upmarket resort town — a place of championship golf courses, five-star all-inclusive resorts and long Blue Flag beaches, all set in fragrant umbrella-pine forest. It’s built for relaxing, but it’s also superbly placed: the Land of Legends theme park is right here, two of the world’s best Roman ruins are a
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