Mediterranean (Aegean Coast)

  • Bodrum

    Bodrum is the Aegean’s most glamorous resort town, on a peninsula in Muğla province with a crusader castle at its harbor. It is the ancient Halicarnassus, birthplace of the historian Herodotus and site of the tomb of King Mausolus, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, and today it is known for white…

  • Fethiye

    Fethiye is a harbor town in Muğla province, ringed by pine-covered mountains and sitting at the head of a bay scattered with islands. It is the gateway to Ölüdeniz and its lagoon, to Babadağ paragliding, to the ghost village of Kayaköy and to the start of the Lycian Way. It is a working town with…

  • Antalya

    Antalya is the capital of the Turkish Riviera, a city of nearly all-year sun between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean. It has a walled old town above a Roman-era harbor, one of the best archaeological museums in the country and a ring of ancient cities within day-trip distance. Many visitors only see the beach…