2025 Kayakoy Travel Guide: Must-see attractions, popular food, hotels, transportation routes (updated in April)

☪️The so-called [ghost town] is actually Kayakoy, a tourist attraction in Fethiye. It is very niche and many people who have been to Turkey may not have heard of it. ☪️If you don't have much time in Fethiye, I don't recommend coming here. I stayed in Fethiye for four days and had plenty of time, so I drove over to take a look. ☪️First of all, it is a certain distance away from the city, and the place is very desolate. It is recommended to wear comfortable sneakers here, don’t wear slippers like me, otherwise you will regret it. It's called a tourist attraction, but it's actually a pile of ruins. It's quite large inside, and the landscape is similar. You can take a few photos and then leave. ☪️It’s very big inside, there’s no need to walk around all of it, just find a good angle to take pictures, because the scenery is basically the same. It is recommended to wear bright colors, such as the red I wore. In post-production, I kept the character color and removed the background color. The resulting photo effect is pretty good. ☪️There are two churches in the ghost town⛪️. The Kato Panagia Church on the mountain still retains faded murals, arched roofs and a magnificent arched vestibule. The Taxiarkus Church on the mountainside is much smaller, and its murals are so faded that it is hard to tell what it looked like in the past, but one still can't help but imagine its former glory through its wind-eroded rock walls.

🌟🇹🇷Turkey is a country full of history and culture, and Kayakoy in Dalaman is one of its treasures. 🌍🌟 🌍🌟After arriving in Istanbul, we flew directly to Dalaman Airport in Mugla Province on the southwest coast of Turkey without stopping, and then drove to the small town of Oludeniz next to Dalaman. 🏰🌟 🏰🌟It was about 3pm and we decided to go to Kayakoy, an open-air museum included in the Turkish Museum Pass. 🌍🌟 🌍🌟Kayakoy was once an Orthodox Greek village with a history of thousands of years. In 1923, more than 6,000 residents left their homeland overnight, and the village became a ruin. 🏰🌟 🏰🌟The town has about 2,500 buildings built on the hillside. Many houses have reservoirs next to them. The shape of the windows and some remaining signs on the walls retain traces of the beliefs of the old people. 🌍🌟 🌍🌟We walked around for more than two hours, but only walked less than half of the way. The old school, church and ruins of Kayakoy make people feel the weight of history. 🏰🌟 🏰🌟On the way back to Oludeniz, the bare white surface of the mountains was dyed red by the sunset, so magnificent that it made people feel lost. 🌍🌟

Kayakoy Ghost Village near Fethiye. The village was a bit bigger than I thought, but it was full of abandoned buildings where no one lived. The stories about Kayakoy go like this. Some say that during the Greek-Ottoman war, the Greeks who had moved here were massacred by the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), and after that, ghosts began to appear in the village and everyone left, or that after the war, the Greeks were deported to Greece in large numbers, leaving only the village. In any case, Kayakoy, which had been left empty for a long time, definitely had a gloomy feeling. It must have been scary to walk around every corner alone. The old empty houses were gloomy and a bit sad, but the natural scenery behind them was beautiful and open, so I was amazed the whole time I was going up. The road up to the top was a little rough, but it took about 20-30 minutes if you climbed slowly. If you go to Kayakoy, you should definitely climb to the top of the village. You could see the village scenery at a glance from above and the vast Mediterranean Sea!! #Overseas travel #World travel #Turkiye #Turkey #Turkey travel destination recommendation #Fethiye #Kayakoy #Fethiye travel #Kayakoy

I didnt know that there was this place before Feiset, and it was also a surprise outside the itinerary. The locals called KAYAKOY a ghost town. There is no one living here. The small town that has been abandoned for thousands of years, the size of the city is very large, the ancient Greeks Living in this city, and later because of the war between Turkey and Greece, the Greeks abandoned the city and returned to Greece, and no one came to live. Faithiette locals know this place, but few people have come, asked the staff of the tourist information office, the bus stop next to the mosque can go to KAYAKOY, the number of shifts is very small, We waited for an hour before the car arrived. It was almost dark in the ghost town. KAYAKOY was actually on the other side of the Dead Sea town. There was a hiking route from the Dead Sea to KAYAKOY. It took about five or six hours to experience the ghost town. The size of the ghost town is amazing. There are 300-500 stone houses, which are very well preserved. I don't know why the local area has not developed this place. It is definitely worth more than many monuments. A lot of stone ladder roads have been damaged. Be careful when you go. When you think about it, you may have high development costs. The area is so large. If it is repaired, it is also a big project. There is a church on the top of the mountain, but I dont know if its a low season or a holiday, its closed. Gradually, its dark, theres no one in the ghost town, a little scared. Go down the hill and go back to the roadside. Wait for the bus to go back. Fortunately, I will wait for a while, and the minibus will come. This visit was very hasty, many places did not come, I hope to have the opportunity to come down again and experience the ancient city style of the next millennium.