The beach
Pebbles and clear water.
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Kabak Bay is a small, secluded bay on the Mediterranean coast south of Fethiye in Muğla province, south-western Turkey, about 21 km in a straight line south of Fethiye, near the village of Faralya and Butterfly Valley. The bay lies at the end of a deep, pine-forested valley between mountains that drop steeply to the sea, and ends in a beach of pebbles and sand with clear blue water. The Lycian Way, Turkey's best-known long-distance walking trail, passes through it along the coast. There are no large hotels here, only campsites and small wooden lodges on the valley slopes, which give the place a quiet, close-to-nature feel. Visitors arrive by a steep mountain road and then walk down a path to the beach, or by boat in season, and a small waterfall hides in the forest of the valley. Access to the beach is free. The walk down and back up is tiring in the summer heat, and spring and autumn are best for walking the Lycian Way.
Pebbles and clear water.
Coastal trail.
In the forest.
Faralya, Fethiye, Muğla, Turkey
By mountain road and a walk down, or by boat in season.
Spring and autumn.