Datca Guide - Travel To Turkey

The Datca peninsula is a natural border between the Aegean Sea and the Gulf of Gökova in the north and the Mediterranean Sea with the Gulf of Hisarönü in the south. About 75 km from Marmaris to the same city on the peninsula winds a serpentine road between forested mountains round, from which the viewer at the sight of steep cliffs really the breath of hesitation - perhaps a bit of fear, but in any case because of the indescribable Beauty of the landscape. The camp friend, on the peninsula very beautiful places and someone who appreciates the convenience, outstanding hotels and holiday homes. The Datca-houses are hidden among flowers. The marina is located on the north side, swimming, the south side preferred. Around the port are bars, restaurants, souvenir shops, etc. not bored. The dreamy enjoyed aperitif, a successful dinner, the evening entertainment - who still has enough strength, can also control one of the nightclubs.
The peninsula is decorated with numerous small, very clean bays. The Bay of Kargi is one of the best known. At the top of the Peninsula 35 kilometers from the town of Datca lies the ancient city of Knidos, the Karer built. Strabo described it as “the city that for Aphrodite, the most beautiful of all goddesses, on the most beautiful of all peninsulas was built.” Knidos was in the fourth century BC a cultural and arts center with two natural ports, the one in the Aegean and the other lying in the Mediterranean. Some remnants of the temple to the goddess of love was dedicated to monitor the ports. The legendary statue of the “Un clothed Aphrodite” by Praxiteles, one of the greatest sculptors of antiquity, in this temple once stood..