Traveler Magazine 2018 Spring Traveler | Page 35

AUTHOR LISA KAHAN PHOTO MEDITERRANEAN SEA IN OLUDENIZ, TURKEY Turkey’s Turquoise Coast, only an hour’s flight from Istanbul, is a land of myth and legend, the birthplace of Greek Gods, and the battlefield of the Crusaders. Popular with sailors and sunbathers, hikers and road trippers, the so-called Turkish Riviera encompasses the rugged cliffs of the Taurus Mountains tumbling into the crystalline waters of the Mediterranean, where the remains of a millennium rest peacefully in the midst of the modern world.