Hisaronu Holidays

Staying on a mountain by the beach might sound almost too romantic, but that’s exactly what Hisaronu holidays offer. Hisaronu lies just 4 kilometres uphill from popular Olu Deniz’s beach-front lagoon, en route to the vibrant harbour city of Fethiye. It offers an alternative base for visitors among the forested foothills of Babadag Mountain, well known as a paragliding launch pad. Even at the height of summer, the higher altitude provides refreshing coolness at night, when holidaymakers wander the main street’s restaurants and bars. It’s a busy place geared towards international tourists, but there’s even more to do on holidays to Hisaronu just a short bus ride away in both Oludeniz and Fethiye. Just outside the resorts themselves, there are lots of adventures to be had in the beautiful natural scenery – this is, after all, the chunk of Mediterranean holiday heaven known as the Teke peninsula, where mountains plunge into blue bays and Lycian ruins peek from the undergrowth.

Walk 4 kilometres downhill through the pine forest or catch a dolmuş to this ghost town, which is made up of 4,000 stone cottages that were abandoned by their Greek inhabitants in the 1920s.