Beaches - Kalkan itself has a pebble beach close to the town centre, used by locals and visitors alike, while nearby Patara and Kaputas are well close enough for even a half-day outing. Patara is famed for its fine white sand stretching for eighteen kilometres, and sun shades can be hired at the near end of the beach. It closes at sunset and is home to nesting turtles in season: about 20 minutes drive from Kalkan, with a regular dolmus service. The beach at the base of Kaputas gorge is closer, and is a favourite - but there are about 150 steps to take you down (and up again) from the road. Or you can visit it by sea ferry from Kalkan harbour
Kaputas beach  Kalamar beach club

Beach Clubs at Club Mahal, Kalamar bay and the Kalkan Yacht Club invite guests to rent sun beds, and offer sea swimming plus bar and snack bar and changing facilities. Club Mahal - a courtesy boat ride across the bay which
in itself is fun - also offers open-air massage! Tennis is available near Club Mahal.




Locally based Gulets (derived from traditional fishing and cargo vessels into custom-built cruising yachts) offer day-long trips to other bays for swimming and snorkelling, with lunch and drinks on board. Join a trip as a couple, or organise your own boatful if you can put together your own party and discuss with the captain where you want to go. Midnight outings are good fun! You can also organise longer cruises, under motor or sail, locally or from Gocek.

Diving Schools, in Kalkan and also in nearby Kas, have a good reputation for teaching beginners and for experts alike, and the area around is wonderful for scuba, down to reefs, caves and wrecks. For the less adventurous, even just Snorkelling from a daily gulet trip can give some wonderful glimpses of underwater life.

Hotels such as the Regency and Asfiya (both just five minutes from the villa) and Club Xanthos in Kalamar welcome villa guests using their facilities, and offer Turkish baths, massage, saunas and beauty salons, restaurants and bars, and use of their pools. For the men, there are several genuine Turkish barbers in the town for that really close shave.

The Thursday Market in Kalkan is a must for most visitors, with amazing bargains to haggle for. Table cloths and bedspreads at great prices, shirts, Tshirts, shoes and trousers in abundance.  But this is not just for tourists: the locals also use the market throughout the year, for all kinds of produce and household supplies, so it is ‘the real thing'.  There are also markets in Fethiye on Tuesdays, Yesilkoy on Wednesdays, and Kas on Fridays. "

Dolmus services - a local minibus concept - go from Kalkan square to all parts at very reasonable prices and pretty regular frequencies, and can be picked up on the roadside with a wave. There are particularly good services to Kas (stopping at Kaputas for the beach there), Fethiye and Patara beaches.

Local tours offer an increasing variety of outings if you do not wish to do it alone, to Saklikent, to all the ancient sites, and in to the mountains to local villages or out to sea round the coast to the islands or the likes of Kekova. Travel by minibus or open-top jeep, to suit all tastes. Longer distance coaches can be boarded at Kalkan for trips further a-field.