August in Kalkan

[citybluemoon]

We went to Kalkan this August for the second time. It was dead hot but the delights of a pool, aircon and trips up into the mountains made it bearable... Some highlights for us were:
A. Excursions. We went with Dayi from Light Tours up into the Taurus mountains. He's a fantastic guide and host and can't rate him highly enough. We also went out with Muddy on his boat - he was really attentive to our needs and we all had a brilliant day. A real highlight for me though was also a self driven trip up to the ruins at Pinara. It's a great ride to get there and a totally secluded ancient city up in the mountains. The only other people there was a guy to take the money (charged us 10TL for the 5 of us) and two Spanish ladies. We had a great time scrambling around the ruins and qlso enjoyed the hair raising journey back down the dirt track road (lot worse going down than up!)
 
B. Restaurants. We ate out a lot but by family consensus the ones we enjoyed the most were.,..
1. Our House. A lovely little place up near the school - great friendliness and food from the owner and his family and friends. If you can go there then do - the sauces in the stews were fantastic.
2. Olive Garden. Really nice food and very friendly people
3. Chillies. Good for eat in and also very swift on takeaway
4. Aubergine. Maybe not quite as good service as last year but great location and food still lovely
5. Our House (again - voted by the kids as needing two appearances)
 
Overall a brill time. Would also recommend Termessos for trips and car hire. Really lovely Turkish and Scottish people - so helpful and friendly.
 
 

[joanH]

So glad you enjoyed your holiday in Kalkan.
Joan

[kalkan4eva]

thanks for posting this, citybluemoon (no idea which football team you might support ...)
Pinara is on my list for next August, so it's good to hear it was one of your highlights. Also great to know you had a brill time this August when it appears others did not - I was beginning to worry about next year!

[lorilou]

HI citybluemoon
Thanks for such a positive report - more ideas for trips out ... we're looking forward to going back to the Olive Garden (our favorite from last year) and trying Our House and Chillies as well.
Glad you had a great time!
L

[turkeyfan]

Thanks for your August report.  We've just come back from 3 weeks in Kalkan and we thought it was just as lovely as ever.

It was busier than May/June but we didn't experience any poor service like some other posters unfortunately did.  We had no problems getting tables in restaurants or sunbeds at beach clubs or on the beach - and we never get to the beach until midday as our teenagers like their bed too much!

In an ideal world we wouldn't holiday in August, but that's because it's much hotter than June or September.