Set roughly three hours by road from Dalaman Airport, Kaş anchors a jagged stretch of the Tekke Peninsula known for clear Mediterranean diving and 4th-century BC Lycian ruins scattered casually among whitewashed houses. The harbour remains a working mooring for wooden gulets and dive boats rather than mega-yachts. Kaş is worth visiting if you want Lycian history over cold raki, steep drop-off scuba diving, and pebble-cove swimming. Look elsewhere if you want wide sandy beaches, all-inclusive resorts, or flat terrain.
Last updated 7 Oct 2026
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Kaş clings to a steep limestone cliff above the Mediterranean, oriented entirely around its stone harbour and the uphill lanes of Uzun Çarşı. The town rhythm is slow and uncomplicated: mornings belong to diving boats or cliffside swim platforms, afternoons quieten down during the heat, and evenings settle into long meyhane dinners under bougainvillea with raki and cold meze.
Start with strong tea overlooking the Antiphellos amphitheatre before stepping down to Küçük Çakıl for a cold morning swim. Walk the uphill flagstones of Uzun Çarşı by mid-afternoon, then secure a terrace table on Hükümet Caddesi for fried calamari, grilled lagos, and anise raki as the fishing boats return. Select 1 Day above to see it.
Head west on the D400 coastal road to spend the morning on the turquoise waters of Kaputaş beach. By late afternoon, catch a local boat across to the secluded coves of Limanağzı for grilled seabass, returning to Kaş for cold meze and slow conversation on the harbour quay. Choose 2 Days to expand the plan.
Devote a full day to chartering a wooden gulet from Üçağız through the Kekova Sound, floating over submerged Lycian city walls and climbing to the Byzantine castle at Simena. Finish with mountain-reared lamb and fresh trout in the cooler upland village of Islamlar.
Grilled lagos (white grouper) caught off Meis channel, octopus salad with olive oil and oregano, and whole red mullet fried crisp over high heat.
The 1st-century BC Antiphellos theatre, the monumental King's Tomb on Uzun Çarşı, and Lycian sarcophagi rising straight from the town pavements.
Rocky stretches of the waymarked Lycian Way trailing west toward Limanağzı coves and east across limestone scrub toward the cliffs of Çukurbağ.
Wooden day boats departing the harbour for Simena Castle, the submerged walls of Kekova, and swimming stops in the turquoise water of Aquarium Bay.
Submerged Douglas C-47 transport planes, canyon drop-offs, and clear visibility down to forty metres along the limestone reefs of the outer bay.
The Friday bazaar behind the bus station piled with local thyme honey, sun-dried chillies, wild herbs, goats milk cheeses, and sour pomegranate molasses.
Meyhane tables loaded with grilled aubergine, sea beans in garlic, fava bean puree, dried salt-cured pastırma, and chilled anise-forward Yeni Rakı.
Plunging swim platforms at Küçük Çakıl, cold freshwater springs mixing at Büyük Çakıl, and the sheer cliff-framed inlet at Kaputaş thirty minutes west.
A twenty-minute ferry crossing across the strait to the Greek island of Kastellorizo (Meis) for waterfront calamari and the Blue Grotto sea cave.
Short drives uphill into the Taurus foothills to Islamlar for fresh mountain trout, cedar-shaded terraces, and slow-braised lamb shanks.
Paddling sit-on-top sea kayaks silently over half-submerged Byzantine foundations and amphorae scatter fields along the Kekova coastline.
Kilim weavers and leatherworkers along the cobblestones of Uzun Çarşı, plus hand-thrown earthenware jugs and olive wood boards in small family shops.