Turning off the main road from Kalkan to the airport at Dalaman takes you to a very different world of simple village life. We took trips to the Lycian city of Sidyma and a remote small hiking hotel with stunning coastal views at Yediburunlar (seven noses, after the shape of the coastline).
At Sidyma we were met by the wife of the local village mayor, who pointed us in the right general direction, in the absence of signposts or a site map, and then made us tea when we returned; we were grateful for our basic Turkish. The site is virtually undisturbed, except by villagers who have used some of the stones to build houses and farm the land around the site.
Ipek, our neighbour and owner of Villa Mahal, navigated us to Yediburunlar, where we had lunch. She also introduced us to the Turkish custom of pomegranate scrumping.
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