Exploring Dalyan Delta

Dalyan is a little town inwards Turkey’s south-west Mediterranean share that keeps its secrets tucked away behind the coastline. Overlooked past times ancient Lycian stone tombs the town itself is entirely little but the share offers many distractions for explorers.

Tourists swell the population of Dalyan during the summertime months but the share is otherwise occupied amongst beingness a productive agricultural region. Especially noticeable inwards the fields surrounding the village are crops of citrus fruit, pomegranates too cotton. 

Things to create inwards Dalyan

Azaleas business the border of the Dalyan Delta on the route to Gokbel

Kaunos

Rock tombs embedded inwards the stone gradient facing Dalyan, across the Dalyan river, bear witness the area’s ancient history. The grandness too pinnacle of tombs higher upwardly others dot the social standing of the individual the tomb was built for. According to mythology Kaunos was established afterward Byblis told her twin blood brother that she had fallen inwards honey amongst him. He left Dalyan too established Kaunos. Byblis was thus distraught close her unrequited honey that she attempted suicide too it is believed her tears formed a river.

Wooden boat on Dalyan River

Riverside restaurants

A neat means to require hold inwards the fantastic persuasion across the river to the Lycian tombs that are idea to appointment dorsum to 500 BC is from i of the many riverside restaurants inwards Dalyan. The views, traditional Turkish nutrient too the breeze, brand a fantastic spot to halt for lunch.

Riverside dining inwards Dalyan

Boat trip through Dalyan Delta

Wooden boats move upwardly too downwardly the river all day, providing carry to too from the beach too too pleasant tours of the Dalyan delta, which is a pop angling area. The river links Lake Koycegiz too the Mediterranean. 

Heading to Iztuzu Beach from Dalyan

Mud baths

One of the stranger pastimes inwards the Dalyan share is bathing inwards mud. It is unremarkably believed that roofing yourself inwards the stinking, warm too greyness mud found some the shores of Lake Koycegiz is the surreptitious to looking younger. The procedure is non precisely a quick dip however, you lot slap it on your peel too thus bake inwards the Sun until it is dry out too starts to crack, thus rinse it off. Quick discussion of warning, attempt out to habiliment black swimsuits or they may retain a ease of grey.

Mud bathers, Dalyan

Iztuzu beach

The gem inwards Dalyan’s crown is the nearby beach. Iztuzu Beach is a glorious stretch of golden sand amongst no nearby evolution because it is a protected surface area due to it beingness the nesting pick of local loggerhead turtles. Visitors are allowed on the beach during daylight hours but are unable to pass evenings or nights at that spot due to turtle activity.

Iztuzu Beach, Dalyan

Gokbel lookout

Iztuzu beach tin post away too go accessed past times road. The journeying leaves Dalyan town too passes through a little hamlet called Gokbel earlier coming downwardly to the beach. Gokbel clings to a Cliffside too if you lot follow the route leading uphill, rather than the i leading downhill to the beach, you lot are rewarded amongst an amazing persuasion over Iztuzu Beach, across the Dalyan Delta too upwardly to Lake Koycegiz. If you lot teach hungry inwards Gokbel proceed an oculus out for the hamlet women who sometimes sit down past times the roadside selling freshly prepared gozleme, which are pancakes, too tin post away go savoury or sweet.

View over Dalyan Delta from Gokbel hill

Have you lot been to Dalyan? What did you lot think? 

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