Information for visitors to the Kalkan, Kas, Fethiye region of Mediterranean Turkey, known in ancient times as Lycia.
December 19, 2009 by APS
Filed under Turkish Language
If you’ve ever wanted to throw in a few words in Turkish in your emails home, it’s handy to know how to include the diacritical marks or squiggly bits. So, for example, rather than writing that you had a good time in Kas, you might like to get it right and spell the name correctly so – Kaş.
Welcome to The Lycian Shore, a website about the Tekke Peninsula of south western Turkey - the area known in ancient times as Lycia. The site takes it title from a book of the same name by the distinguished English travel writer Freya Stark who travelled through the area in the 1950s. A great writer and intrepid traveller, Freya Stark had this to say about Lycia:
"There are not so many places left where magic reigns without interruption and of all those I know, the coast of Lycia was the most magical."
Much has changed since the 1950s, but the magic remains.
For self-catering holiday rental: Mountain villa with spectacular views just fifteen minutes from Kalkan. Click here for more information.
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