A ten-minute drive from town, this 334-square-kilometre (129-square-mile) spread is forested with red pines, cypresses, oaks, alders, wild olives, and plane trees, and is home to a wide diversity of wildlife, with mammals including wild goats and boars, caracal wildcats, foxes, weasels, badgers, squirrels, rabbits, and and even jackals and bears. Activities include hiking, biking (both regular and mountain), plant and wildlife-spotting tours, rock climbing, horseback riding, and offoading. There are even some archaeological ruins up here, the remnants of an amphitheatre, temple, and walls fom the ancient Greek cities of Physkos and Amos. And of course the sweeping views fom up here are something else.
Read more in Tripatini contributor Rohny Jones´ post Marvelous Marmaris, Turkey´s Top Beach City.
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