Local Info

Didim

Didim is one of the most important tourism centres of the recent years. It is located at the intersection point of holiday and cultural tourism. Didim is a at the centre of the important antiques cities such as Didyma (Temple of Apollon), Milet, Priene, Magnesia and Heraklia is very attractive for local and foreign tourists with its coast of 53 kilometres surrounding the north of Gulluk Gulf and with its bays and golden beaches. The high-quality hotels at Altinkum beach and between Didim-Akbuk add value to the attractiveness of Didim. The most important tourism centre of Didim is Altinkum beach. Akbuk is a developing tourism centre.

Altinkum

Many visitors arriving to holiday on our town become quite confused when hearing the reference to Didim. Most, if not all, tour brochures name the town as Altinkum is the region of the main Beach district of the town of Didim. In fact, Didim part of the regional administration of the city and county of Aydin, covers a large area which also includes the other holiday areas of Tesilkent, Mavisehir and Akbuk, as well as the community of Yenihisar.

Altinkum, which means “Golden Sand” in Turkish, was given its name with the advent of tourism some years ago. It had previously been named “Karakuyu”, which literally translates as black hole! This was before there were any buildings, houses or hotels. The area consisted solely of fields and farming land, with a few tiny fish restaurants and tea houses located near the sea front.
The area of Yenihisar is often referred to as the “old town”, although the name actually translates as “Newcastle” and we’ve never heard any Geordie accents outside of the tourist season! This is the area where all the electrical, furniture and utility shops are located, as well as numerous lokantas (Cafes), supermarkets, bakeries, indeed, all that you should wish to find in a sizeable town, including a Saturday market.

Yesilkent

Yesilkent, “Green City”, is to be found twenty minutes or so around the coastline from Altinkum’s beaches. Again, this is a primary area inhabited only during the summer months, though more are residing there throughout the year these days. Both areas are outlying from the Altinkum/ Yenihisar centre, and boast the most outstanding scenic views and a rich variety of nature

Akbuk

Akbuk is at 15km distance from Didim. It is a holiday centre, which has developed subsequently. The area is rapidly becoming more popular with foreigners due to the peace and quite of its location, though Akbuk is earmarked for a lot of future development in tourism.  The bay is suitable especially for sea sports. You can find any kind of hotels in this place from five star hotels to boarding houses. Akbuk is also interesting with its beach. Akbuk is one of the most beautiful accommodation places of blue voyage and yacht tourism in the region. Due to its weather full of oxygen having a humidity rate close to zero, you do not get bored even in the hottest summer days. With this characteristic, Akbuk has a great potential to become one of the most important centres of wellness to tourism. The continuously breezy weather of Akbuk offers a good opportunity to those who wish to make water sports in Akbuk bay. There are also very good bays to dive in the region. The smallest of the antique settlement places in the region is Teikhiousa, it is very close to Kazikli village which is at 9km distance from Akubuk. Not so many ruins have remained until today. But you should stop by this place. And you should go on to one of the fish restaurants on the coast of kazikli village and taste the gilt-head bream or the bass coming from the vicinity fish farms.

Some of the facilities in Altinkum