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Sights & Activities
The mountainous, deeply indented Bozburun Peninsula is the perfect place to kick-start a
scooter and roll down the winding country roads, discovering villages that modernity for-
got. Scooter rentals from nearby Marmaris average " 45 per day in season; ask your ac-
commodation about organising one.
Marmaris offers a range of diving and boat trips; again, ask your accommodation about
organising an outing.
KNIDOS
(admission " 8; 8.30am-7pm May-Oct, 9am-6pm Nov-Apr) Knidos, a once-prosperous Dorian port
city dating to 400 BC, lies in scattered ruins covering 3km of the Datça Peninsula's tip.
Here, dramatic and steep hillsides, terraced and planted with groves of olive, almond and
fruit trees, rise above two idyllic bays where yachts drop anchor.
The round temple of Aphrodite once contained the world's first freestanding female
statue. Also here are the 5000-seat Hellenistic lower theatre , a 4th-century-BC sundial
and some fine carvings from an erstwhile Byzantine church.
An on-site restaurant offers great views.
Datça's Karnea Turizm ( 712 8842; Iskele Mahallesi Atatürk Caddesi 54b) offers a half-day
Knidos tour ( " 60 per person). Knidos Taxi, near Cumhuriyet Meydanı, will take up to
three people for " 100 (including two hours of waiting). Datça harbour excursion boats
serve Knidos, at around 9am, returning in the early evening ( " 30 per person).
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KNIDOS YACHTING
(
| Ferry
712 9464; Yat Limanı 4a, Datça) Organises diving trips ( " 80/110 for one/two dives).
OLIVE FARM
( 712 8377; Güller Dağı Çiftliği 30, Eski Datça; 8am-7pm) Olive-grove tours, tastings and a
shop will placate lovers of liquid gold. It's 600m before the main road's Datça turn-off.
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Getting Wet
Kuşadası and the surrounding Aegean coast are prime territory for wetting your toes,
offering activities from scuba dives to water-park slides.
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