About Kalkan
Number 5 is located in Kalkan, the charming jewel on Turkey's Turquoise coast. Boasting a climate that welcomes visitors all year round, it is small, sophisticated resort and you are always assured a warm and friendly welcome.
Kalkan is a place like no other - and we've searched many resorts in an attempt to find the similar "magic" that Kalkan conjures up. We first fell in love with the place in 2011 and have been frequent visitors ever since. Whether it's the climate, the views, the culture and amazing sights nearby, or the spectacular food, it's hard to say. But probably, more than anything else, it is the warmth and welcome of the people.
It's fair to say, we caught Kalkanitus on our first visit, and we're sure you will too!
For everything you need to know about Kalkan please visit Visit Kalkan Online.
What the travel writers say
We know Kalkan is a small, cosmopolitan resort which offers a rare, sophisticated holiday experience for discerning travellers. Don't take our word for it - here's what some of the best travel writers said...
The Telegraph
Until the 1920s Kalkan was a tiny Greek fishing village; by the 1980s it had morphed into a bohemian resort for arty Turks fleeing big city life. Some of its past has clung on despite its transformation into a sophisticated resort favoured by Brits. They are drawn by its beguiling setting, dropping down a hillside to a small yacht harbour fronting a picturesque bay, pretty fishermen’s cottages, cosy restaurants and chic café-bars. Kalkan is also appreciated for what isn’t here – no rowdy bars, no clubs, no full English breakfasts. The village beach is small, but the sands of Patara are very close, as is stunning Kaputas.’
The Times
Night-time. Isn’t that always when magic happens? I sit on my tiny wooden balcony, on a sleepy backstreet in Kalkan’s pretty old town, and smell the jasmine and lavender wafting up from the garden below. Music drifts on the warm air; jazz seeping down from a rooftop restaurant, blurring with something pacier from the Moonlight bar, where I can picture the tables set neatly on the street, barmen whisking between them with dewy glasses of cold Efes and crisp, white Cankaya wine. There’s something in the air in Kalkan, just like always; warmth, intensity, a thousand specks of light flickering beneath the inky sky.
Daily Mail
Patara's hidden depths sit comfortably beside nearby Kalkan's more obvious charms. The little port is packed with gulets, converted fishing boats and assorted pleasure craft touting for human cargo with the promise of 'dining under the stars', 'all-day trips of magic' and such like. Banked steeply above the harbour - with the Taurus mountains behind - the rest of the mainly car-free town variously purrs and fizzes, its limestone streets and alleyways polished to a sheen by millions of feet over hundreds of years. Roof-top restaurants vie for business but you never feel hassled by frontmen wearing dodgy bow ties as you do in other tourist hubs.
METRO
Twenty years ago, Kalkan was a small harbour town, a handful of seafood restaurants dotted on winding, cobbled lanes.
Now, Kalkan is a lively holiday destination with more than 350 restaurants and bars, cute cafes and eclectic shops selling everything from diamonds and textiles to ‘designer’ handbags and football kits.
The atmospheric town runs down to indigo water dotted with colourful boats and gulets, traditional Turkish wooden sailing boats.
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