Turquoise Coast
Here Önur, Gülser and daughter Eliz offer an experience of local life in a whitewashed house on a village lane, among the twittering birds and roosters. There are five simple rooms in the main house, three sharing a bathroom, and a spacious and modern room in the garden of citrus and olives.
Prices include homemade lemonade, afternoon tea of cakes and börek (filled pastry), and all the fruit you can eat from the garden. Three-course dinner is ₺40.
Kayaköy (Levissi) Abandoned Village
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The beach is why most people visit Ölüdeniz. While the decent strip of pebble shore edging the holiday resort is free, the famed lagoon beach is a…
2. Kayaköy (Levissi) Abandoned Village
6.56 MILES
The tumbledown ruins of Levissi are highly atmospheric. The roofless, dilapidated stone houses sit on the slopes like sentinels over the modern village…
7.72 MILES
Some 46km southeast of Fethiye along the D400 is the turn-off for Pınara and its spectacular ruins. Pınara was one of the six highest-ranking cities in…
9.2 MILES
Sharing a place with the Lycian capital Xanthos on Unesco's World Heritage list since 1988, Letoön is home to some of the finest ruins on the Lycian Way.
9.36 MILES
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Fethiye’s most recognisable sight is the mammoth Tomb of Amyntas, an Ionic temple facade carved into a sheer rock face in 350 BC, in honour of 'Amyntas…
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A good example of a Lycian sarcophagus, standing in the middle of Kaya Caddesi
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Fethiye's tiny old mosque is squeezed between souvenir shops and cafes in the bazaar district.