Villa Elnara Turkey

Enjoy a vacation with a view, when you holiday in Villa Elnara, overlooking the azure waters of Kalamar Bay, in the holiday hot spot of Kalkan, on Turkey’s coveted Turquoise Coast. This classic three storey villa has four spacious ensuite double bedrooms, and can comfortably accommodate up to eight guests. Villa Elnara would be ideal for a large family gathering or a groups of friends sharing. The villa is in its own enclosed terraced grounds, with a private pool, and stunning Mediterranean Sea views. The property comes complete with all the mod cons, including complimentary air conditioning and Wi-Fi throughout, a remote control and mobile App security system, as well as strategically positioned cameras. Villa Elnara is built out of local stone and classic Mediterranean whitewashed walls, with wood framed floor to ceiling picture windows, that reward the guests with panoramic views. The interiors are furnished in a traditional style, with lots of natural pine, and artefacts, and decorated in a gentle colour palette of soft creamy beiges, and contrasting hues of sea blues. The ambiance is one of a welcoming, laid-back, holiday home from home.
Enter the villa at ground floor level, where there is a light and airy living space. The seating area has an L-shaped cream sofa and a coffee table, arranged around a flat screen satellite television preloaded with Netflix, a selection of board games, and an open wood burning fire for those cooler months and evenings. There is also a built-in soft seating area, and two wicker armchairs around a Turkish coffee table. The ground floor cream and white kitchen is fully equipped with everything you could possibly need to cater for a happy holiday. An indoor dining set is ideal for some informal entertaining. There are four well-appointed ensuite double bedrooms, three with double beds, and one with twin beds. All the bedrooms have wardrobes, side tables, chest of drawers dressing tables, and ensuite modern marble walk-in shower rooms, with vanity units, and WCs. There is the most charming furnished balcony that has a soft seating area and sweeping sea views. Take the stairs down to the lower ground level, where there is a second fully-equipped kitchen, with a seating area with a flat screen TV, and sliding doors that open straight out onto the pool terrace. The tiled sea view terrace is home to a ladder entry swimming pool, surrounded by eight steamer style wooden, deep cushioned sun loungers, with shady parasols. An eight seater dining set is ideal for some alfresco feasting with delicacies grilled on the built-in brick barbeque. As the sun sets, and dusk falls, the lights of Kalamar come to life, and the Turkish skies are full of stars.
Villa Elnara is superbly located overlooking the beautiful Kalamar Bay, to the west of the quaint harbour town of exclusive Kalkan, on Turkey’s Turquoise Coast, the jewel of the Mediterranean Sea. The town of Kalkan is a scenic one and a half hour journey from Dalaman airport, through the Turkish countryside and Taurus mountains. Kalkan was originally a Greek enclave called Kalamaki, and Ottoman and Hellenic influences can be found in the winding streets of the old harbour town. Walk through the cobbled streets full of traditional white houses, home to a reputed one hundred and fifty restaurants, cafes, and bars, enticing souvenir shops, and designer brand stores stuffed with objects of desire. After dark, dine in one of the famous rooftop restaurants with stunning harbour and sea views, sampling traditional Turkish delights and international cuisine. From the villa it is a short drive to the local shops and restaurants of Kalamar, and a five minute drive into Kalkan where you can find supermarkets and banks, and a local Thursday market, that can cater for all the provisions you will need for a happy holiday. Within walking distance of the villa is the charming Kalamar and Kulube Beach Clubs, with restaurants, and full size swimming pool.
Take a trip into town, and at the harbour get aboard one of the complimentary water taxis to one of the many exclusive beach clubs. The beach clubs all have with bathing platforms, sea views, sun lounger waiter service, restaurants, and bars, and some offer full size swimming pools, water sports, and spa services too. For the beach bunnies, Kalkan has its own pebble beach with organised sun loungers and brollies, easy access into the calm Mediterranean sea, and its own cute cafe. Travel further afield to the stunning Kaputas Beach set in a natural gorge, only two hundred steps down and two hundred steps back up, but well worth it for the scenery and the sea. Take a trip to Patara, where you will find twenty kilometres of unspoilt golden sands, and a protected area for the hatching Caretta Caretta turtles. Patara also boasts an archaeological site over two thousand years old, with not just one but two ancient amphitheatres, not to mention the most stunning sunsets, best seen from the ever-changing sand dunes. No stay in Kalkan is complete without a boat trip from the harbour, whether it’s a shared one with family and friends, or you charter your own gulet, a day out at sea with your favourite captain and crew, is one that memories are made of. All aboard for a day of swimming and snorkelling in beautiful bays, enjoy a meal of local homecooked meze, take afternoon tea, and then sail back to harbour cocktail in hand to watch the sunset.
For those with itchy feet the Lycian Way walking trail cuts through Kalkan. Follow in the footsteps of thousands of years of history, as you trek the trail taking you through major archaeological sites, local villages, dramatic coastlines, and the areas’ flora and fauna. Take a short journey to the town of Kinik, where you can step back in time to the Lycian city of Xanthos. Follow the D400 to Fethiye, and discover the historical sites of Patara, Letoon, Tlos, Sidyma, and Pinara, where you can see the ancient ruins, amphitheatres and temples with Lycian, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine influences. The harbour town of Fethiye is also full of ancient sites worth seeing, as well as a foodie-heaven fish market, and home to some seriously good designer labels and fabulous jewellery shopping. Whilst the nearer town of Kas is just twenty-five kilometres in the other direction, and worth the journey alone, along one of the world’s most stunning and dramatic coastlines. Walk through the harbour to the cobbled streets full of Ottoman architecture and overhanging balconies festooned with pastel coloured bougainvillaea, barter for unique handmade and antique goods in its many shops, and make memories dining in one of the traditional restaurants serving authentic Turkish cuisine with mesmerising sea views. And if you’re feeling intercontinental, hop on the twenty-minute ferry from Kas to the Greek island of Meis, where you can swim in the mystical Blue Cave and dine by candlelight at the water’s edge., sunbathing, to explore trips where you discover islands you’ve never heard of, to private charters and transfers, and to adventure