Why You Need to Visit the Turquoise Coast on the Turkish Riivera

We arrived in the tiny town of Kaş in the late afternoon, climbing a narrow street in our van and stopping at a small hotel perched high above the sea. We checked into our white-washed rooms with tiny balconies, agreeing to meet up again in just half an hour in order to go somewhere special to watch the sunset.

And 30 minutes later, we were walking downhill through the sleepy town, past houses and boutique hotels dripping with bougainvillea and Turkish flags – the latter in celebration of the upcoming Republic Day.

If you’re wondering where the heck Kaş (pronounced Kash with a short “a”) is and what I was doing there, it’s a tiny town on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast. I visited a handful of towns in this part of…