Itinerary
Three days on the peninsula
How to spend a first visit without spending it in the car: one bay, one town, one long dinner per day.
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Editorial
Travel Guides
Destination guides, itineraries and orientation, written from the ground.
Beaches
The beaches worth the drive
The peninsula has sand on one side and rock on the other. Which you want depends on the day you have in mind.
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Eating
How to eat well in Alaçatı
The village has more restaurants per street than anywhere on the peninsula. A little structure helps.
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Seasons
When to come, and what each month is like
The season runs from May to October, and the peninsula is a different place at each end of it.
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Practical
Getting to Çeşme
İzmir airport, an hour of motorway, and the ferry option most visitors do not know about.
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Getting around the peninsula
Distances are short, but the good parts are spread out. Here is what works without a car and what does not.
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Families
Çeşme with children
Shallow water, short drives and the places that make a beach day workable with small children.
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Water sports
Windsurfing in Alaçatı Bay
Flat, shallow, and reliably windy: why the bay became a training ground rather than a novelty.
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On the water
Boat days: how to choose one
Shared gulet, private charter or a short cove run — three formats, three different days.
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Wellness
The thermal water, explained
Çeşme's hot springs are the reason Ilıca has its name, and the reason the town has a winter season.
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Walking Alaçatı
A stone village that was nearly empty forty years ago and is now the peninsula's centre of gravity.
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Nightlife
How the evening works here
Dinner is late, the second drink is somewhere else, and the beach clubs never quite close.
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Ildır
Ildır, Erythrai and the northern bay
A fishing village, a scattered ancient city and the calmest water on the peninsula.
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