"Unspoilt Turkey
Only a few miles from resorts heaving with huge hotels and apartment blocks, there are sleepy coves, tranquil forests and untouched hamlets. Here Annabelle Thorpe picks the low-key highlights
Sunday June 4, 2006
The Observer
For those of us who fell in love with Turkey's rough-edged exoticism years ago, the creeping urbanisation of the country's gorgeous coastline can be depressing. Traditional fishing villages are increasingly being swallowed up by identikit hotels and apartment blocks but, if you know where to look, there are still unspoilt beaches and sleepy hamlets to be discovered. Best of all, just a few minutes' drive inland from the coast, Turkish life continues pretty much unchanged: a hazily sunlit world of ramshackle farms and disarmingly shabby villages. Below are four regions where the real Turkey can still be found."
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