KARMYLASSOS COTTAGES, KAYAKOY FETHIYE TURKEY
 
3 two-bedroom villas Amintas, Karia, Xantos  - Suitable for up to four guests
Three-Bedroom villa Tlos – Suitable for up to five guests
These four detached cottages are set in an idyllic location, with fabulous views over Kaya.

 The owners, Vedat and Suzanne have very exacting standards, and have worked hard to create beautiful and high-quality villas which now rank among the best in Kayakoy.

Karmylassos Cottages set in the heart of the kaya valley is just a ten-minute drive from Olu Deniz yet a million miles away in terms of ambience and the typical visitor of this area.
The pine clad mountain side gives a luxury of green colour to the valley, with the Old Ruins standing like reminders of days gone past. Visitors who explore the walks around the village ruins will be amazed an encaptured by the love story that inspired Louis de Bernieres to write the novel Bird without Wings. Guests who have stayed with us at karmylassos Cottages and have read the book have tried to retrace some of the characters in the book and their families. The warmth and the genuine hospitality of the locals draws guests back year after year. As more visiters enjoy staying in the Kaya valley small restaurants and bars have grown offering traditional turkish cuisine along with stories of past and present.

The Kaya Valley known in Greek times as Levissi and in Lycian times as Karmylassos has a wealth of history.

In the years of 1900, Kaya village was a bustling community of Greeks and Turks who lived and worked together a population of approx 20.000. It was abandoned and the Greeks were forced to leave when a exchange agreement was signed between Turkey and Greece in 1922. Today Kaya village looks like a "Ghost Town" where two churches and a school are in the process of restoration with the aim of establishing a village of peace in the region. On the slopes, there are stone houses built in typical Mediterranean style, not overshadowing one another, schools, churches, chapels, workshops and other buildings, as well as intercrossing narrow streets, all of which are reminiscent of an architectural laboratory. Kayakoyu is under protection as a prominent sample of the Anatolian cultural mosaic and will become a village of friendship, peace, science and arts in the near future, when the restoration and planning efforts are completed.

A few kilometers from Oludeniz and Fethiye, climbing past the ancient fortress and rock tomb of King Amyntas, the pine trees give way to the bucolic landscape of the Kaya Village. Here a dwindling number of local families still tend the land and tend their animals. Some of old Greek stone houses have been carefully restored to provide atmospheric and peaceful holiday homes. Visitors can walk, cycle or even horse-ride around the pathways and lanes of the valley pausing at the simple teahouses, restaurants and general stores or continuing the few kilometers down to Gemiler Beach. Perhaps everyone's most vivid memory of Kaya Valley is the haunting choreography of the houses, shops and churches of the once thriving Greek town of Levissi.