Datca Hotels

Datca is a district of Mu?la Province in south-west Turkey, and the center town of the district. The center is situated midway through the peninsula which carries the same name as the district and the town (Dat?a Peninsula). The long and narrow Dat?a Peninsula, whose outline follows the ondulations of small bays and coves facing south or north all along its length which reaches near 100 km (62 mi), corresponds almost exactly to Dat?a district area, with the addition beyond its isthmus of a small panhandle in the direction of the south-east. The ithmus itself is wide only of several hundred meters. The extreme end of the western tip of the district and the peninsula, the locality called Tekir, is the location of the ancient city of Knidos. There is an ongoing debate on whether or not this location was the original site of the ancient city, a number of sources claiming that until the mid-fourth century BCE, Knidos was halfway along the peninsula, near the present-day district center. The peninsula s eastern end is marked by the fjord-like indentation of Bencik Cove, 1.5 km in length, at the end of which the narrow isthmus where it joins the mainland is found. This point is a natural curiosity which offers a wide view of the Gulf of G?kova in the north and the Gulf of Hisar?n? in the south and is called Bal?ka??ran (literally, the place where fish may leap across) and is also often used for the portage of small boats