Best Anchorages in Hisarönü Körfezi

Keçi Bükü, universally known by its sandbar's name Kızkumu ('Girl's Sand'), is Hisarönü's most distinctive anchorage — a wide, well-sheltered bay on the northern mainland shore, famous for the narrow ridge of sand that extends 200 metres into the sea from the northern shore, allowing visitors to walk far out into the clear water.

Turgut (also called Akçabük) is Hisarönü's most dramatic anchorage — a narrow fjord-like inlet enclosed so completely by pine-covered hillsides that it offers 360-degree protection regardless of conditions outside.

Dirsekbükü ('Elbow Bay') is a well-sheltered pine-forested inlet on the northern Hisarönü shore, 2nm east of the busier Keçi Bükü.

Çiftlik Köyü is a genuine Turkish fishing village on the northern Hisarönü shore — a simple bay in front of a small community of farmers and fishermen, with a basic shop and local restaurants serving catch-of-the-day.

Selimiye is widely regarded as the most beautiful village anchorage in the Hisarönü Körfezi — a whitewashed waterfront of Ottoman-era stone houses, hibiscus-draped gardens, and waterfront restaurants where tables are set on wooden jetties extending over the clear green-blue water.

The Taşlıca Adaları (Rocky Islands) are a small group of uninhabited islets just west of Selimiye, offering one of the Hisarönü gulf's finest snorkelling anchorages.

Bozburun is the most important village on the Bozburun Peninsula and Hisarönü's primary service port — a working harbour where the art of traditional gulet construction has been practised for generations.

Söğüt is a small village anchorage on the southern shore of the eastern Hisarönü gulf — one of the least-visited bays in a region that is itself less visited than Gokova or Fethiye.

Kadırga Limanı is the Hisarönü gulf's remotest anchorage — a completely undeveloped pine-forested bay at the eastern end of the gulf, about as far from the Marmaris charter-boat circuit as it is possible to sail within the gulf.

Bozukkale — the ancient port of Loryma — is among the finest anchorages in the entire Turkish Aegean: a completely enclosed natural harbour protected by a 4th-century BC fortress whose towers and walls still stand on the headland above.