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TURUNÇ
For couples only?
Arriving at Turunç, you really will get a good lesson in how Turkey's nature is and what challenges the nation's road engineers have faced. On the map it looks like a short journey, but you will be climbing up and down a few mountains before this small town emerges as a small miracle at the end of a green bay. From high above, it looks specatacular. Downtown, it is modest, but charming. If Içmeler is like a small version of Marmaris, Turunç is a small version of Içmeler. The town itself is virtually only that one street you cannot avoid coming or leaving, flanked by standard souvenir stalls, a few restaurants and bars and other shops and banks. Not much to explore, you can see it all in 20 minutes. Most visitors stay at small pensions and fill their stomachs at relatively simple restaurants, but this is a resort that has visitors coming again and again. Turunç has two beaches, the one which is not in front of town is the nicest, but occupied by the one grand hotel here, named after the village it has dislocated itself from; the Turunç Hotel. The town beach was badly organized when I visited in May 2009, but both sand and water was clean.
