The Turquoise Coast

Türkiye’s Riviera is an elemental wonder along the Aegean and Mediterranean, where ancient history, striking geology and natural luxury merge in a soul-stirring embrace. This is a coastline peppered by ancient trade routes, ruined citadels, forested headlands and secret bays where the sea still rules the rhythm.

This coastline is no stranger to empires. Roman amphitheatres overlook turquoise bays and Lycian tombs are carved into sheer rock faces. Villages of whitewashed stone and Ottoman-era charm cling to olive-dotted hillsides, their winding alleys alive with the scent of wild thyme and salt air. In Muğla Province, the beating heart of Türkiye’s Riviera, history pulses beneath every sun-warmed stone and modern luxury weaves seamlessly with centuries-old traditions.

Bodrum’s bohemian pulse hums through its cobbled streets, alive with ateliers, boutique hotels and chic rooftop terraces. Marmaris stuns with pine forests that plunge headlong into sapphire seas. Fethiye is a quiet dance of contrasts: old-world charm and laid-back harbourside meyhanes, market stalls and secret beaches. But it’s the hidden coves like Günlüklü Bay that set the pulse racing, where rare oriental sweetgum trees (Liquidambar orientalis) perfume the warm air and nature reclaims the rhythm.

Geology shapes the soul of this place. Folded mountains tumble into forested valleys and limestone cliffs plunge to secret coves below. Kingfishers dart over mirrored shallows, wild herbs crackle underfoot and the air hums with resin and salt.

This isn’t a coastline you simply visit. Türkiye’s Riviera claims you with every tide, weaving itself into your memory with each sunlit ruin and salty breeze. Here, the luxury is found in nature itself, where past and present live side by side in every hidden cove and ancient stone.

Next, we’ll take you to Günlüklü Bay: a 500-metre stretch of sugar-soft sand and sweetgum-scented air, where the forest meets the sea in a quiet embrace.