Fethiye & Coastal Towns Turquoise water, Lycian trails, slow coastal days

This stretch of Turkey’s southwest coast is what you picture when you picture the Mediterranean. Fethiye sits between pine-covered mountains and a harbor full of gulets, Oludeniz’s blue lagoon is twenty minutes away, and the abandoned village of Kayakoy is right next door. Hike a section of the Lycian Way, swim somewhere different every afternoon, eat dinner on a wooden boat. It is the kind of trip people repeat for years.