Whenever we have friends over to visit, we always like to try to take them somewhere in the area that they've never seen before - somewhere that sends them home with vivid memories of their time in Turkey. The friends who are here at the moment have been to Fethiye many times before, and so, for …
Aksazlar Beach, Fethiye – Perfect Chillout Zone
Dazzling white sands, sea gently lapping on the shore, lush green forest as a backdrop. No, we're not in the Maldives. We're at Aksazlar Beach in Fethiye. A few years ago, whenever people came to Fethiye for a summer holiday, the general assumption used to be that if a day at the beach was in …
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Çalış Sunday Market – A Guide
The Çalış Sunday market. Regular visitors to this blog will know we have a love of markets; markets of the foodie variety. We visit our local ones here in Fethiye three times a week; Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays are spoken for in our house. And, if we miss one of those, we've even been known …
Butterfly Valley From The Lycian Way – A Photo
It's Friday and it's time for the last Fethiye photo for the month of March. A couple of weeks back, we had a photo of a view of Fethiye marina from the Karagözler - but the week before that, we were finally able to include an Ölüdeniz shot into the series. The photo is an almost aerial view of …
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Fethiye Rock Tombs
The Lycian rock tombs in Fethiye with the tomb of Amyntas holding prime position, overlooking to town and the bay below. Arguably Fethiye's most famous archaeological site. Exploring Fethiye's Lycian Rock Tombs Being that the Lycian rock tombs are carved into the cliff face, high above the …
Fethiye Boat Trips – The Blue Bays
The coastline and islands in and around the gulf of Fethiye make it just perfect for boat trips. Recently, we've taken advantage of this a few times by doing the Göcek market boat trip - just a great, cheap day out for us. However, if you're not the sort of person who wants to be on a public boat …
Wildflowers in Kayaköy
The longer we live in Fethiye, the more interested we become in all that's around us. Over the years, whenever we go trekking, I've started to take an interest in the flora and fauna of the area but that comes with a slight problem in that I don't own any books (I really must buy one) on the …
Fethiye To Göcek Boat Trip: Photo Story
We posted about the boat trip from Fethiye to Göcek market last year and, last Sunday, we made the trip again. In this post, we'd like you to join us on our outing as we sail from Fethiye, across the bay to beautiful Göcek and back again. Our journey begins at 11 am, just after all the other …
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Fethiye Market – A Complete Guide
Tuesday; Fethiye market day and one of our favourite pastimes. How can food shopping ever be a chore when you've got a weekly carnival of seemingly endless rows of market stalls? All packed with the current produce of the season intermingled with the regular staples? The colours, the aromas …
The Fethiye To Çalış Water Taxi – There & Back Again
We make every effort not to take too much for granted living in Fethiye - but sometimes, much as we try not to, we overlook things of beauty that are right under our noses. Daily life throughout the seasons means we just become accustomed to jumping on the dolmuş or the belediye buses to get us …
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