Best Anchorages on the Bodrum Peninsula

Akyarlar sits at the southwestern tip of the Bodrum Peninsula, near Hüseyin Burnu, Turkey's windsurf capital.

Kargı Bay — also known as Camel Beach (Deve Koyu) — offers what few Bodrum Peninsula anchorages can: a genuine 200-metre golden sandy beach paired with clean sandy holding ground.

Karaincir is 500m east of Akyarlar and benefits from the same hill geometry — Aspat Hill to the west and Koca Point to the east — that gives it better Meltemi shelter than its south-coast position suggests.

Aspat is arguably the best Meltemi-sheltered anchorage on the Bodrum Peninsula's south coast.

Bağla has appeared on mariners' charts since the Piri Reis maps of 500 years ago — a testament to its natural value as a stopping point between Bodrum and the SW tip of the peninsula.

Gümüşlük is the Bodrum Peninsula's most atmospheric anchorage — a semicircular bay built on the ruins of ancient Myndos, with Rabbit Island (Tavşan Adası) guarding the entrance and a sunken city wall visible at wading depth.

Torba is the closest natural bay to Bodrum on the north (Gulf of Gulluk) side, 4nm from Milta Bodrum Marina and 6km by road from Bodrum town.

Gündoğan (Farilya Bay) is a working fishing village on the north coast, notably less developed than Türkbükü.

Göltürkbükü is the social heart of the Bodrum Peninsula — 'Turkey's St.

Yalıkavak combines one of the Aegean's premium marina facilities (Palmarina — rated World's Best Marina) with a free anchoring area in the outer bay on mud and sand.