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Turkey Holidays – All about Harbor Life and Adventure Playground

Turkey Holidays All about Harbor Life and Adventure Playground

Harbor life

Vacationers, looking for small hotels with quayside tavernas and harbor villages where yachts, wooden schooners and fishing boats make their way for space, may travel toward to the Lycian peninsula's southern tip for finding the 3 Ks namely Kas, Kalkan and Kaleucagiz. Steep cliffs surround each of them.

Kalkan features narrow alleys of whitewashed houses splashed with bougainvillea that tumble down to one harbor lined up with elegant restaurants and cafes. Toward the east, Kas that is not as dinky compared to its neighbor, features an actual harbor village life with the fishing boats that compete for space along with gulets and yachts, tea-gardens and cafes. Here, the key clienteles are the locals. An esplanade, which is palm-fringed houses great places for eating and drinking.

People who prefer lounging all day in sunny weather and walking around harbor for perfect leisurely sundowner, for them it is good to have dinner at any quayside restaurant. For something additionally active, there is yachting, boat trips and scuba diving toward fourth K namely Kastellorizo, a Greek island that appears nearly close to touch. Do not go to Kalkan or Kas hoping for large sandy beaches. There is a small pebbly cove in Kas, which is fewer than 30 feet. It is popular as Kucuk Cakil meaning little pebbles. Accessing the sea is usually through private jetties provided by the hotels, bars, and restaurants along with umbrellas, loungers and lot of comfy canvas cushions.

For an ideal private enclave, you may go ahead a little to Kaleucagiz east, particularly on the Bay of Simena. Here, remains of the primitive Kekova lie scattered in the clear water offshore. It is possible to reach there only by boat. This place features merely a handful of waterside pansiyons run by families that are interspersed with holiday homes belonging to some reclusive and wealthy Turks.

Adventure playground

The Lycian area has even emerged as an active holiday playground in Turkey. It offers you options for whitewater rafting, hang gliding, riding, kayaking and canyoning, sailing and walking. A finest beach here that is a dazzling saltwater lagoon is the Olu Deniz. Ever since the 90s, a neon-lit resort has come into existence that features happy hour bars, balti restaurants, pizzerias, dance clubs, kebab shops including small hotels, which seem as if catering to the British audience exclusively.

However, Olu Deniz is actually a gateway to a couple of exciting holiday experiences in Turkey. Here, skies overhead regularly are filled with sails of the hang gliders. In addition, various adventure firms here provide you with hang gliding, diving, riding, walking and drive trips on four wheelers taking you into mountainous hinterland. Not only this, Olu Deniz even is one favorite point for jumping off for Lycian Way, which is an excellent getaway however demanding a trek of about 300 miles leading all your way to Antalya from Fethiye through impressive mountain ranges rising to over 10,000 feet above the sea level.




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