Villa Dalyan
Villa Dalyan accommodates up to 16.
Air conditioning on all three floors.
All transfers arranged.
Villa Dalyan is set in a very exclusive area of Dalyan villas with private swimming pool and grounds.
10 balconies with magnificent panoramic views.
Only 5 minutes walk to Dalyan shops and bars.
Only 10 minutes walk to the lively center of Dalyan.
Only 20 minute transfer from Dalaman airport in air-conditioned mini buses.
English speaking management service.
Dalyan is an area of stunning natural beauty, an area of sea, river, lakes, mountains and pine forests.
The Dalyan area and Turtle Beach have been declared a conservation area and is an absolute must for nature lovers.
Villa Dalyan is one of the most beautiful villas in the whole of Dalyan.
With panoramic views all around it truly is one of the best villas in Dalyan.
Turtle Beach
Please visit the beautiful, 5km (two and a half miles) strand of golden brown sand called Iztuzu Beach or better known as Turtle Beach. The beach can be reached by road or even better by sailing down to the beautiful turquoise sea of Turtle Beach on the river from the gorgeous river frontage at Dalyan.
The beach is famous as a breeding ground for the loggerhead turtle. These giants of the sea lumber ashore on summer nights to lay their eggs in the sand. Turtle beach hit the headlines in 1987 when the foundations for a luxury hotel were laid at the south end of the beach. There was a storm of protest from conservationists throughout the world (including Britons David Bellamy), backed by public opinion the Turkish government scrapped the project and declared the beach a protected area for ever more.
With its fine crystal sand, shallow turquoise sea and abundant sunshine, Turtle Beach is the ideal holiday beach, perfect for swimming in the warm Mediterranean Sea.
Dalyan
Dalyan has been described as "One of the last corners of paradise", and being surrounded by pine-clad hills, cotton fields and bulrushes, it really is a beautiful place.
Boat is the best way to reach the many attractions of Dalyan, including mud baths where you have the privilege - if that's the word - of being caked in sulphurous, but reputedly therapeutic, mud.
Drifting downstream you pass the haunting, 4th-century BC tombs, which loom, like miniature Greek temples hewn out of the cliffs, high above the river right opposite the town. Marsh frogs croak in the rushes, stripe-necked terrapins and little freshwater turtles dart in and out of the water and, if you are quick, you may catch the dazzling turquoise and gold arc of a kingfisher in flight.
So much is to be discovered by boat; the variety of birds is bewildering and the sight of small turtles basking at the water's edge, with their bodies submerged and their heads on the surface, is unforgettable. If you are very lucky you may even find one of the rare loggerhead turtles, the 95-million-year-old species Carretta Carretta, swimming right under the boat in nesting season, if you head beyond the river mouth. You can also disembark here at the end of Dalyan's beautiful sandy beach, forty minutes by boat from the town quay. However, those few who know will head by regular dolmus (a twenty minute journey) to the opposite end of the beach where the views are as spectacular as the peace.
From one tip to the other, the swimming from this vast and unblemished stretch of sand is excellent.
As well as the large fleet of boats, other provisions have been made for visitors to Dalyan, which has developed from a small village into a pleasant little town.
The atmosphere is friendly, relaxed and traditional. Local inhabitants still hang their corn and peppers up to dry on strings hung from cottage eaves on the back streets and every Saturday is market day. Devotees of the wonderful