Kekova · Dolchiste
A Lycian harbour town on the northern shore of Kekova island, dropped several metres into the sea by 2nd-century earthquakes. Its staircases still walk into the water. Boats pass slowly, and nobody is allowed to swim above it.
Kaş · Türkiye
Kaş, told by its ghost.
The whole town, from something that never leaves: where to eat, which boat to trust, when the theatre fills with music — and the drowned cities that gave this coast its ghosts.
- Licensed operators only
- Real season prices
- No invented reviews
Start here
The questions everyone asks first
- 3 days in Kaş: the itinerary we give our friends (no car needed)
- Is the Kekova boat tour worth it? An honest answer
- Kaş or Kalkan: which should you stay in?
- The best time to visit Kaş, month by month
- How to get to Kaş: airports, transfers and the beautiful hard way
- Which Kaş boat tour should you choose?
Walking season · September to November, March to May
Walk the Lycian Way from Kaş
Kaş sits in the middle of the 760 km trail. Every stage is on this site, free, with distances, water and where to sleep. And if you would rather someone organised it: small-group guided treks and self-guided walks with bags moved, run by a licensed Kaş agency, arranged by email with us.
Kaş Lycian Way guided trek: 5 days, 4 nights
from €580 ppFour days of walking from the Sleeping Giant above Kaş to the drowned city of Kekova, a bed every night, bags moved, then Myra before the airport.
5 DAYS · FROM KAŞ · MAX 15 · NEXT 16–20 SEP
Kaş Lycian Way guided trek: 7 days, 6 nights
from €795 ppThe same four walking days from Kaş to Kekova, with an arrival night in Kaş, the Kekova boat and Myra, and a departure morning so nothing is rushed.
7 DAYS · FROM KAŞ · MAX 15 · NEXT 15–21 SEP
Self-guided Lycian Way: your dates, your pace, bags moved
Three to seven days on the section you choose, starting from Fethiye, Kaş or Antalya on any date from April to December, with every bed booked, every bag moved and route notes in your pocket.
3–7 DAYS · 1 APRIL TO 30 DECEMBER, ANY START DATE
Photos: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · rheins, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Sleep
Where to stay in Kaş
Walk
The Lycian Way from Kaş
- The Lycian Way from Kaş: one-day, three-day and five-day plans
- Ghost cities of the Lycian Way: the ruins the trail walks through
- Self-guided on the Lycian Way, Kaş to Demre: how luggage transfer actually works here
- The Lycian Way in October, November and winter: what is actually open around Kaş
- Water on the Lycian Way: stage by stage, from Kaş
- The best sections of the Lycian Way, ranked by someone who lives on it
- Walking the Lycian Way alone: honest notes on safety, dogs, water and signal
- Lycian Way maps, GPX and apps: the guidebook, OsmAnd, the free Kaş GPX and what not to trust
- What the Lycian Way costs: pensions, food, transport, guides and packages, honestly
What we curate
The days worth having
Every experience here is one we would send a friend on. Prices are typical 2026-season starting prices with licensed operators, and you book on their official channel.
Kekova Sunken City boat tour
from €55The classic full day over the drowned harbour of Dolchiste.
Full day (7–8 h)
Sunken City sea kayaking
from €45Paddle directly over the walls and stairs of the sunken city.
4–6 h (2–3 h on water)
Discover scuba diving
from €60First breath underwater in some of Türkiye’s clearest water.
Half day
Private boat charter
from €250Your own boat, your own pace — coves, ruins and lunch on deck.
Half or full day
Private gulet cruise: Kekova to Fethiye
Eight days on a wooden schooner, along the coast day boats only sample.
8 days / 7 nights
Aperlai: the ghost city
2027Kayak and hike to a drowned Lycian port almost no one visits.
Full day
Ghost Hour sunset cruise
2027The last light of Kaş, from the water.
~2 h
Saklıkent gorge and Gizlikent waterfall safari
from €35Icy river walk, a hidden waterfall, and a jeep full of water pistols.
Full day (8–9 h)
Myra and the church of St Nicholas
House-shaped tombs cut into a cliff, and the church where Santa Claus was bishop.
Half day (4–5 h from Kaş)
Meis (Kastellorizo) day trip
from €40A Greek island lunch, twenty minutes from Kaş harbour.
Full day (20–30 min crossing)
Dalaman airport transfer to Kaş
The coast road door to door — about three hours, whenever your flight lands.
~2.5–3 h, about 150 km
The Ghost Cities section: Kaş to Simena on foot
Three or four days on the Lycian Way through five Lycian towns, one of them under the sea, with a bed every night and your bags moved.
3–4 days, walking 3–6 h a day
Lycian Way day walks from Kaş
Walk a piece of the trail and sleep in your own bed: Limanağzı by boat back, Phellos from Çukurbağ, Aperlai downhill with a boat out.
Half day to full day
Photos: Yu Diving, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons · Esginmurat, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Getting here
Three hours from every airport, on purpose
Kaş sits at the end of a long coast road from Dalaman and Antalya alike — that distance is exactly what has kept the town this good. The honest breakdown:
- How to get to Kaş: airports, transfers and the beautiful hard way
- Antalya airport to Kaş: bus, transfer or rental car?
- Dalaman airport to Kaş: the closest door, honestly explained
- Antalya to Demre: getting to Myra and the church of St Nicholas
- Dalaman to Demre: the honest way to do it
- Dalaman airport private transfer
Why “ghost”?
An earthquake, and a very long silence.
Twenty-five centuries ago Lycian harbour towns lined this coast: quays, warehouses, staircases cut into rock — a fleet of small cities trading purple dye and cedar across the Mediterranean.
In the 2nd century AD the ground moved and the water came up. It never went back down. Those harbours now lie a few metres under a sea so clear that on a still morning you can read a doorway from a kayak.
Ghost of Kaş began as a curated guide to going there properly — the right boat, the right hour, the story told by someone who bothered to learn it. It has since grown into a guide to the whole town the ghosts overlook: the tables, the coves, the mornings.
The cities are still down there. Most visitors sail straight over them without ever being told what they are looking at.
The coast in three ghosts
Who exactly is down there
Aperlai
A port wealthy enough on murex purple dye to mint its own coins. No road reaches it. Its harbour walls sit in shallow, gin-clear water, its towers stand in the maquis, and on most days the only visitors are goats. Our studio is named after it.
Simena · Kaleköy
A village you can reach only from the sea, crowned by a Byzantine fortress, with a Lycian sarcophagus standing in the shallows below the houses.
How we work
Three rules we do not bend
Real prices
Every figure on this site is a typical season starting price, labelled as exactly that. No bait numbers, and no discovering at the harbour that lunch, transfer and entry were extra.
No invented reviews
We publish no ratings until real guests leave them. You will not find a five-star badge here that we drew ourselves.
Licensed operators only
Every boat, dive centre and agency we point you to holds what Turkish law requires: vessel licence, insurance, qualified crew. It is the least exciting promise on this page and the most important.
Before you book
Honest answers
- Is the Kekova boat tour worth it? An honest answer
- Kaş or Kalkan: which should you stay in?
- Why you can't swim over the Sunken City of Kekova
- How to get to Kaş: airports, transfers and the beautiful hard way
- The best time to visit Kaş, month by month
- Which Kaş boat tour should you choose?
- Diving in Kaş: what makes it Türkiye's best dive town
- Where to eat in Kaş: a local’s guide to the town’s tables
- Kaş seafood and meyhane guide: fish, meze and how to order like a local
- Kaş at night: bars, live music and what to do after dark
- Turkish breakfast in Kaş: kahvaltı, serpme and the best morning tables
- Cheap eats in Kaş: street food, pide, lokantas and 4 a.m. soup
- 3 days in Kaş: the itinerary we give our friends (no car needed)
- Where to stay in Kaş: Old Town or the peninsula?
- Antalya airport to Kaş: bus, transfer or rental car?
- Dalaman airport to Kaş: the closest door, honestly explained
- Antalya to Demre: getting to Myra and the church of St Nicholas
- Dalaman to Demre: the honest way to do it
- The Lycian Way from Kaş: one-day, three-day and five-day plans
- Ghost cities of the Lycian Way: the ruins the trail walks through
- Self-guided on the Lycian Way, Kaş to Demre: how luggage transfer actually works here
- The Lycian Way in October, November and winter: what is actually open around Kaş
- Water on the Lycian Way: stage by stage, from Kaş
- The best sections of the Lycian Way, ranked by someone who lives on it
- Walking the Lycian Way alone: honest notes on safety, dogs, water and signal
- Lycian Way maps, GPX and apps: the guidebook, OsmAnd, the free Kaş GPX and what not to trust
- What the Lycian Way costs: pensions, food, transport, guides and packages, honestly
Opening 2027
Aperlai, and the hour after sunset
Two days we are building ourselves with licensed local partners for the 2027 season: a kayak-and-walk day to Aperlai — the drowned port our studio is named after — and Ghost Hour, a small-group evening cruise timed to the light after the day boats come home.
One email when the dates open. Nothing else, ever.