Western Mediterranean,Turkey

One of our favourite places along this coast is not actually on the coast! Dalyan is a great little tourist town set along a river.On the opposite river bank is Kaunos, with it's Lycian tombs carved out of the cliff face and dating back to around 400BC. To get to the beach you have to take a boat down the river a few miles to the sea. It is called Turtle Beach and is one of the last nesting habitats for Mediterranean Leatherback Turtles to lay their eggs. The only development on the whole beach are a few snack bars and toilets. A strip of beach about 10m wide and about 10 m from the waters edge is a no- go area for humans, so as not to disturb the eggs and the beach is closed at 6pm.
Dalyan has some great restaurants,cool bars and even one with a great live rock band. There is a noise curfew in town after midnight, so the band plays on behind closed doors and it's rather eerie to come out into the very silent yet not deserted streets. The campsite had a great riverside location with the backdrop of Kaunos.
We continued along the coast, checking out more ruins at Letoon, Xanthos and Patara.
Our next stop was Kas, and I have to say that if I had to pick a beach town in Turkey to hang out in for a week or two, this would probably be it. There are some nice pebbly beaches around, a pretty fishing harbour and beautiful turquoise blue sea. This is also a good place to pick up a Gulet and sail for a few days. We went diving and the conditions were perfect;warm water,distant visibility and no current, but sadly also no fish or coral or anything! Well, a few fish. And Kas is a premier dive destination in the Med! We have been spoilt with diving in Asia and Africa.