Kalkan is small but rapidly growing resort tumbling down mountainside to a small harbour filled with yachts. The town itself only has a small stretch of pebbly beach, though the stunning beach at patara and the historical sights of the Xantos valley, are only a short drive away. Kalkan is particularly popular with British tourists , many of whom rent villas rather than stay in hotels.

Kalkan’s narrow streets leading down to the harbour are lined with restaurants shops , and bars. However many of these close for the winter, when there are just some basic shops a suyermarket and medical centre that remain open. On-going improvements to the main coastal highway have cut the journey time do Dalaman airport to around 2 hours. Kalkan gas grown explosively in recent years with major development on the mountainside above the toqn centre and along the coast. Local property is predominantly villas , although more apartment have been built recently. In the old town there are small stone houses. A two-bedroom cottage with courtyard sells from 75,000-110,000 Paunt .

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A small exclusive resort , the choice of property in gocek is fairly limited and prices are high.

Tucked at the head of a narrow bay surrounded by forested mountains. Gocek is one of the Turkey’s most up-market resorts. An important yachting center , the town has no less than four marinas , where many of the country’s wealthiest and most powerful people moor their yachts and gin places. The pedestrianised promenade is lined with restaurants and bars , with a selection of shops and a small supermarket on the main square. The resort lacks a good public beach, although the Swissotel manages a stretch of sand to the south of the port gocek marina. The opening of a new road tunnel scheduled for summer 2006 will bring dalaman airport within 20 minutes drive.

The lack of flat land and local building restrictions limit the amount of development possible , with most new property concentrated in the flat area between the town and the ring road. There are several new developments in the meadows and forests overlooking the resort also.

Not surprisingly prices are high in gocek with villas starting forum 135,000 Paunt though you must pay in excess of 250,000 Paunt for a spacious three-bedroom house with pool and garden overlooking the town. Plots for building are rare and expensive several developers have projects that include apartments with prices from 90,000 paunt for two-bedrooms.

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Kas and around

Tourism has transformed KAS , until 1923 the Greek-populated timber-shipping port of Andifli, which sprang to prominence after about 1850. It’s still beautifully situated, nestled in a curving bay – the name Kas means “eyebrow” or “something curved” – with a backdrop of vertical 500 metre high cliffs peppered with rock tomms, and startling , head on views of Greek Kastellorizo . But what was a sleepy fishing village until the early 1980s has become a holiday metropolis and ilçe (country seat), whose permanent official population of eight thousand is vastly outnumbered in summer by the vacationers on whom locals depend for a living. Attitudes towards outsiders have inevitably hardened – the otogar is predictably well patrolled by accommodation touts though they’re not yet like those encountered at Selcuk or Pamukkale. Kas is less snooty, more youth-oriented and more hoi polloi cosmopolitan than nearby Kalkan ; aspiring Istanbul and Ankara yuppies come here, and amongst foreigners its still, unlike Kalkan , firmly established on the backpackers trail.

Kas has always been a major halting point on “Blue Cruise” itineraries, and yacht and gulet culture is as important here as Kalkan with day-trips available on the latter craft for the less well-heeled. Plans are afoot to move all pleasure craft to a new marina being prepared at Bucak Limani (formerly Vathy), the long fjord west of town, wedged between Highway 400 ant the Cukurbag peninsula which extends 5 km south-west of Kas.

The beaches
Considering that Kas is a major Turkish resort , local natural beaches are surprisingly poor; a few on the north shore of Bucak Limani are muddy and give onto sumpy water. In town itself Küçükçakil ( small gravel) has in recent years been pretty much taken over by the hotels facing it , who have installed snack-bar and sunbed concessions and concreted over the shore as a lido. Büyükçakil just over a kilometer east of town, is a small , coarse-shingle cove that nevertheless gets crowded out.

There’s no beach to speak of in Kas itself, or anywhere nearby for that matter, which together with a lack of a really convenient airport , and a spotty water supply (finally remedied in 1988 by a pipeline from Saklikent ) has spared the town the worst excesses of modern torism. Indeed , if you are not looking for antiques and carpets , at first glance there seems little to keep you here the town does get lively at night, however mainly because shops stay open until 1am in season - the many bars much later. By day Kas makes a handy base from which to reach Kekova and nearby Patara if you dont have your own transport , and local boosters are working hard to make it a major springboard for various types of adventure and activity tourism. The modern town is built atop the site of ancient Antiphellos , whose remaining ruins still speckle the streets, as well as covering the base of the peninsula to the west.

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