“Islamar is a small mountain village only 20 minutes from Kalkan on the Lycian Coast, which gives an insight into traditional life in a rural Turkey. My personal highlights are the tea garden where the men of the village put the world to rights over glasses of tea, the bakery that still uses and old millstone and the wonderful architecture of communal buildings.
The mountains remain cool even in the height of summer, and give the most amazing view across the valley to the white sands at Patara, a stunning undeveloped beach in easy reach"
Guardian Travel Supplement
"a step away from the tourist areas is a Turkey of such original beauty that you’d need a thousand lifetimes to spend here and there’d still be more to discover”
Guardian Travel Supplement
“You’ll have eaten some of the most delicious food in the world, and the Turks you’ve met will have treated you with kindness and joy. The truth is, Turks just love having visitors.”
Guardian
“Kalkan is a handsome, classy resort that cascades down a curve of steep hills all the way to the waterfront” – “the credit crunch will instantly vaporise…”
Telegraph
“Kalkan…Turkey is not somewhere we’d have chosen, that’s furthest east we’ve been in the Med, but we loved it….”
Daily Telegraph
“Kalkan is a beautiful area…….People are friendly and there are 12 miles of pure white beaches"