Turkey
Bodrum
The Turquoise Coast's stylish harbour.
A crusader castle over a yacht-filled bay on Turkey's chicest stretch of coast.
Bodrum is the stylish anchor of the Turquoise Coast. The Castle of St Peter, built by the Knights Hospitaller, guards a bay full of wooden gulets and now holds a museum of underwater archaeology. Whitewashed lanes climb behind the marina; a gulet day-sail to nearby coves is the way the coast is meant to be seen.
What you’ll do
·Bodrum Castle
·Gulet day sail
·Old town & marina
·Ancient Halicarnassus sites
Why it’s special
Bodrum Castle
A Knights-Hospitaller fortress and underwater-archaeology museum.
Gulet country
Wooden Turkish yachts and a coast of clear, swimmable coves.
Whitewashed town
Bougainvillea lanes and a marina built for the evening.
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