- HOTELS IN KAS & KALKAN DISTRICT - Kas - Kalkan - Patara / ANTALYA
Kalkan, once the most important trading port in the Teke Peninsula for the caravans of camels on the old Silk Road - is a smallish town in the Antalya region. It used to be the departure point for the Silk Road goods that were to travel by ship to destination points in the Ottoman Empire -- Eastern Mediterranean, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Cyprus, Rhodes, etcetera. Now, Kalkan is a tourist center for its waterways that are nice for boating, after having been abandoned by traders for more prosperous locales. Tourism was helped largely during 1984 after the road between Kalkan with Fethiye was asphalted. There is no specific information on the founding of Kalkan - one of the legends which is most widely accepted is that a woman from the Island of Meis came with a boatload of goods which she tried to sell to the villagers around the Kalkan area. Her venture was successful and other tradesmen from Meis followed her example and actually moved to Kalkan about 150 to 200 years ago, thus making Kalkan a small trading coastal post. The original settlers were of both Greek and Turkish origin and were subjects of the Ottoman Empire.
Kas is a small, photogenic town, first mentioned in Lycian times as Antiphellos. Apart from overcrowded touristical places it still has its typical scenery -- small white houses with wooden balconies, the traditional market on Fridays, boats that take you to different places like Kekova or the Greek island of Kastellorizon, from the lovely small harbour. An ancient retreat, the scene of the oldest shipwreck known to mankind. Welcome to bustling, friendly Kas with its palm-shaded avenues and sidewalks and its picturesque peninsula reaching out to the Greek islands – narrow cobble stone lanes packed with shops spilling out their wares of trinkets and carpets.
Kalkan, once the most important trading port in the Teke Peninsula for the caravans of camels on the old Silk Road - is a smallish town in the Antalya region. It used to be the departure point for the Silk Road goods that were to travel by ship to destination points in the Ottoman Empire -- Eastern Mediterranean, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Cyprus, Rhodes, etcetera. Now, Kalkan is a tourist center for its waterways that are nice for boating, after having been abandoned by traders for more prosperous locales. Tourism
was helped largely during 1984 after the road between Kalkan with Fethiye was asphalted. There is no specific information on the founding of Kalkan - one of the legends which is most widely accepted is that a woman from the Island of Meis came with a boatload of goods which she tried to sell to the villagers around the Kalkan area. Her venture was successful and other tradesmen from Meis followed her example and actually moved to Kalkan about 150 to 200 years ago, thus making Kalkan a small trading coastal post. The original settlers were of both Greek and Turkish origin and were subjects of the Ottoman Empire.
Kas is a small, photogenic town, first mentioned in Lycian times as Antiphellos. Apart from overcrowded touristical places it still has its typical scenery -- small white houses with wooden balconies, the traditional market on Fridays, boats that take you to different places like Kekova or the Greek island of Kastellorizon, from the lovely small harbour. An ancient retreat, the scene of the oldest shipwreck known to mankind. Welcome to bustling, friendly Kas with its palm-shaded avenues and sidewalks and its picturesque peninsula reaching out to the Greek islands – narrow cobble stone lanes packed with shops spilling out their wares of trinkets and carpets. 
