This is a fascinating and eerie ghost town which lies in the hills between Oludeniz and Fethiye.
It was hastily abandoned when its Greek population was repatriated in 1923 after the Greco-Turkish war
In September 1922 the British brokered a peace treaty and the following year an exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey - based on religion - was agreed
Some 1.2 million Greek speaking Christians were sent to Greece while 400,000 Turkish speaking Muslims were displaced from the Macedonian region of Greece to Turkey.
Following the Treaty, the compulsory (but non-violent) eviction of Greeks from this valley took place.
Attempts to settle folk from Macedonia failed ...
... and the valley was left with only a few peasant farmers overlooking the deserted village. They may also have been influenced by rumours that the Greeks had poisoned the wells!
We also saw some local flora and fauna - this looks very much like a Gatekeeper butterfly
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