FOLLOW THE COAST SLOWLY
The turquoise coast: Fethiye, Kaş, Antalya
Eight days down the Lycian shore — Fethiye, Kaş & Kalkan, Antalya — with no long travel legs at all: every hop is a coastal drive, so every day is a full day. Each place below has its own guide; both hops have verified route pages.
A route where the road between places is part of the day, not time lost from it.
THE ITINERARY
A route that leaves room for the journey between places.
- DAY 1–3
Fethiye
The lagoon from the air on day one, on foot on day two, and the coast's strangest silence — a whole hillside town abandoned in 1923 — in between.
- DAY 4–6
Kaş & Kalkan
A short coastal hop, then three days that alternate beach and Lycia: Kaputaş below the road, Patara's dunes over a buried city, Xanthos, and a boat day over the sunken one.
- DAY 7–8
Antalya
The road ends in the old town: Kaleiçi and Hadrian's Gate the first day, then the two great Pamphylian sites — Perge and the theatre at Aspendos — the second.
The southwest coast is the one stretch of Türkiye where the route plans itself: one road, the D400, strung between three bases, with the sea on your right the whole way east. Nothing here costs a travel day — the planner counts eight days for eight days of sightseeing, and the hops between bases fit inside a morning.
Days 1–3 · Fethiye. Paragliding over Ölüdeniz on the first morning — wind permitting, and mornings are calmest — then the Blue Lagoon at ground level, Kayaköy's abandoned hillside, and a day built around Butterfly Valley.
Day 4 · the first hop, and Kaputaş. Fethiye to Kaş is a short coastal drive — the route page has the verified ways — and Kaputaş Beach sits right on the road in, so the travel morning still ends in the water.
Days 5–6 · Kaş & Kalkan. Patara's dunes and the buried city under them share a day with Xanthos; the last full day goes to the boat — Kekova and the sunken city.
Days 7–8 · Antalya. The second hop east is another morning — verified ways on the route page — then Kaleiçi and Hadrian's Gate the first day, and the two Pamphylian sites, Perge and Aspendos, the second.
This page and the planner run on the same arithmetic — load the coast there and the eight days above arrive as a working, editable plan: same places, same hops, same day count.
11 places, mapped
Every place, held together on one map.
Every pin links straight to its own guide. Hover or focus a pin for its name.
- Paragliding over Ölüdeniz· Fethiye
- Kaleiçi and Hadrian's Gate· Antalya
- Kaputaş Beach· Kaş & Kalkan
- Ölüdeniz Beach & the Blue Lagoon· Fethiye
- Perge· Antalya
- Patara Beach· Kaş & Kalkan
- Aspendos· Antalya
- Kekova & the Sunken City· Kaş & Kalkan
- Xanthos· Kaş & Kalkan
- Kelebekler Vadisi (Butterfly Valley)· Fethiye
- Kayaköy· Fethiye
Grouped by story
Days 1–3 · Fethiye
The lagoon from the air on day one, on foot on day two, and the coast's strangest silence — a whole hillside town abandoned in 1923 — in between.
FethiyeParagliding over Ölüdeniz
The world's highest tandem paragliding site — a ridge above 1,900m onto a lagoon — and where this coast's safety risk concentrates.
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FethiyeÖlüdeniz Beach & the Blue Lagoon
Two beaches share one name: Belcekız, open and free, where paragliders land, and the lagoon proper, gated and ticketed, a short walk south.
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FethiyeKayaköy
A Greek hillside town emptied by the 1923 exchange, finished off by the 1957 earthquake. Roughly 500 stone shells, still standing empty.
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FethiyeKelebekler Vadisi (Butterfly Valley)
Named for a day-flying moth, not a butterfly, in a valley whose cliff path has become too dangerous to recommend. Go by boat.
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Days 4–6 · Kaş & Kalkan
A short coastal hop, then three days that alternate beach and Lycia: Kaputaş below the road, Patara's dunes over a buried city, Xanthos, and a boat day over the sunken one.
Kaş & KalkanKaputaş Beach
A sliver of turquoise at the foot of roughly 170 steps, wedged in cliffs between Kaş and Kalkan — arrive by 9am or skip the car entirely.
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Kaş & KalkanPatara Beach
A protected turtle-nesting beach backed by dunes; plan a daytime visit and check current access hours.
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Kaş & KalkanXanthos
Twice, when a siege was lost, the city chose mass suicide over surrender — now part of UNESCO-listed Xanthos-Letoon.
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Kaş & KalkanKekova & the Sunken City
A Lycian-Roman town dropped into the sea by an earthquake — seen through clear water from a boat, its walls and stairs, never swum over.
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Days 7–8 · Antalya
The road ends in the old town: Kaleiçi and Hadrian's Gate the first day, then the two great Pamphylian sites — Perge and the theatre at Aspendos — the second.
AntalyaKaleiçi and Hadrian's Gate
Pass beneath the marble arches Hadrian rode through in 130 AD, into the lanes of Antalya's old town.
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AntalyaPerge
Walk a Roman colonnaded street with its water channel still running, past a stadium that once held twelve thousand.
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AntalyaAspendos
Step into the best-preserved Roman theatre anywhere — its stage wall full height, its acoustics still carrying a whisper.
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MAKE IT YOURS
This route is a starting shape, not a fixed script.
Load the same route into the planner, remove what does not call to you and let the days re-balance around the places that do.