Location: Turkey
Nearest Airport:
Dalaman at 170
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Nearest Ferry:
To Bodrum at 5
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Nearest Beach:
Roman Port at 600
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Car: recommended
Known in Turkish as 'half island' the Datca Peninsula is surrounded on three sides by the sea. Datca is a town where life centres around the harbour. Carpet shops, boutiques, restaurants, bars and even an amphitheatre line the harbour side and each evening an assortment of gulets, yachts and gin palaces arrive to drop anchor in this attractive setting. A drive through the peninsula with pine forests, hill top villages and roads zig zagging down to the sea level will bring you to Knidos, an antique site dated 4000 BC. If you prefer less strenuous activities then there are numerous bays, some sandy, some pebbly but all with crystal clear water.
Datca is known throughout Turkey for its therapeutic qualities with high oxygen content in its air due to the meeting of the Mediterranean and Aegean seas and is considered to have the World's third highest level of oxygen in its air.