Kaş: Turkey’s Mediterranean Playground

The stylish, whitewashed beach towns of the Greek Islands are world-renowned as playgrounds of the tanned über-hip Euro-riche, but somewhat less-well known (to North Americans at least) are the sun-baked shores of Turkey’s Mediterranean coast. Equally as hip and just as starkly beautiful as their Greek cousins, towns like Antalya and Bodrum attract masses of sun worshipping revelers, where they tan in uncomfortable speedos and lounge at cushion-strewn bars to Turkish electro-chillout soundtracks.

One of our favourites was Kaş (pronounced “cash”) a quintessential hip Med party town. Blessed with a rugged coastline filled with restaurants and bars and a restored old quarter where stone caves have been converted to cafés and even a groovy Jazz bar, Kaş is the kind of place I could hang out for a week and not even notice the time.

Take a look at my “office” while I was here and you’ll see why it was hard to leave:

One of our favourite Kaş-ian treats was the happy moment our waiters called “cake time.” That’s right, for no reason (and at regular intervals) someone would appear at our lounge chairs brandishing…well, cake. We didn’t even have to move or order.

And so we raise a glass of rakí to Cake Time. Sherefe!

The Jazz Bar
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