Friday, June 15, 2012

The Turkish Riviera beckons - The National

The Turkish Riviera beckons

Sakhr Al Makhadhi
Jun 15, 2012

The black Mercedes SUV speeds around the corner of the narrow mountain road. I spot an odd collection of lights down by the bay: they seem to be deep in the forest, lining this untouched stretch of the Aegean coastline on the north side of Turkey's Bodrum peninsula. "What's that village?" I ask our driver. He laughs as he takes a sharp right turn on to an unlit dirt track. "It's not a village," he says. "It's the resort."

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