Kas

The demand for luxury villas in the resort town of Kaş, a popular destination for isolated holidays during the pandemic, has surged, with the occupancy rate of approximately 6,000 villas reaching 70 percent just before the upcoming Eid al-Adha.

Antalya – Slovenian freediver Alenka Artnik has set a new world record in the double-fin discipline at a competition in Kas, Turkey.The 39-year-old said on Facebook on Saturday that she had improved her own mark in the discipline to 106 metres.

Patara, a 2,000-year-old ancient city in the southern province of Antalya's Kaş district, which has traces of human life dating back to 6,000 years and was once the capital of the Lycian Union, has been drawing the attention of tourists to the region even more after the year 2020 was marked as the "Year of Patara."

Travel writers of British The Guardian newspaper have shown Antalya's Çıralı and Patara beaches among the cleanest beaches in Europe. There are also three more Turkish beaches on the list.

Thanks to strict compliance with social isolation rules and tight controls against the spread of the novel coronavirus,
no cases of the disease have been encountered in Turkey's coastal Mediterranean town of Kaş.

Right opposite to the Greek island of Kastelorizo, some meters away from the shores of the Turkish town of Kaş, the Turks display tanks of its army at…the bottom of the sea!

That’s right! One can scuba dive, visit and take pictures of a M-48 US-made Main Battle Tank (MBT) that used to belong to the Turkish Marines, but sank due to some…miscalculation during a military exercise.

Forget luxurious beach beds and celebrity-filled beach bars, there are still numerous Greek island gems “off-the-beaten path” in the Aegean.

Here are the first three destinations, in the first of a three-part travelogue.