Antique port and coves.

In the morning, before going to contemplate the lost beauty, you should have a good breakfast in a cozy atmosphere. The local cuisine is quite rich.

Andriake was one of the most important port areas of Demre. It was an indispensable stopover for seafarers as well as a protected port for merchant ships.
In Andriake you can see churches, baths, port structures, agora, Murek's workshops, cisterns, agora, synagogues, granariums dedicated to Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD. Among the exhibits are the harbour structures. It is nice to see the houses and marine equipment that people used in the past. The main attraction in Andriake is a 16m Roman boat.

Cyanea was once one of the great cities of Lycia, the most important town between Myrrh and Antiphellos (nowadays Kash), but its date of origin is not known for certain. It was connected by road to the port of Theimoussa, 12 km. away, and was very wealthy and prosperous in Roman times. In the Byzantine era Cyanea became an episcopal center.
The Acropolis of Chianea is built on a steep cliff and is surrounded on all sides by fortress walls with three gates. The buildings of the library, baths and two Byzantine churches were almost completely destroyed and overgrown with dense vegetation. On the western slope stands an antique theater (2nd century AD) with 23 rows of seats.
Along the road linking the acropolis with the theater stretches a series of sarcophagi. Some of them are of classic Lycian style and some are of much simpler and more unsophisticated Roman style. Only some of them are decorated with lion heads.

The ancient city of Theimussa was built on the ruins of an even older city.
Today, unfortunately, almost nothing is known about this city. The only fact remains that the city had a flourishing port as early as the 4th century B.C., as evidenced by the records found on the walls of the necropolis.
Above the ruins on a low hill you can see a small fort that looks more like a house or a tower, and a little lower there is a picturesque pier.

The city of Simena was founded in the 5th century BC and thanks to its convenient port it was considered one of the favorite harbors of sailors.
In the 2nd century, during the cataclysmic and tectonic upheavals of the Taurus Mountains, the region lost its elevation above sea level. Part of the city went under water and the rest was abandoned by the inhabitants.
The main attraction of Simena is the hill with the ruins of the Lycian Fortress of St. John, which later passed from the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman Empire. The fortress is located on the highest point, offering stunning views of the surrounding countryside: Aperlaia, Kekova, Uchayz and the Straits. The fortress was designed to protect the approaches to the cities from the sea.
Another interesting landmark of the fortress is the 150-seat theatre, built of roughly hewn stone. It is the smallest known theatre of the Lycian era.
Some of the unique Lycian tombs, carved in the rock, as well as the sarcophagi with caps in the shape of upturned boats, have been preserved (the Lycians, being fond of sea, believed that they could practice their favourite occupation even after death). Along the coast are the remains of ancient baths. The rest of the ancient city is flooded. The half-immersed sarcophagus is one of the most frequently photographed landmarks of Simena.

Finding the town is quite easy: it stands on the Lycian Trail, and everything around it is perfectly marked.
Overall, Fellos looks like a lot of tombs hiding from you behind the trees. There are very few other buildings here. There is a piece of wall and a couple of foundations. Pieces of columns hint that there may have been a temple here. The town sits on a ridge, and looks more like a garrison, a necropolis with a shrine, than a major trading post or metropolis of the time. The city may have been an industrial base or a summer residence for the residents of Antifellos.

It is one of the port cities of Lycia. Visit its ruins and Lycian stone tombs. Walk along the shopping street (Uzun Çarşı), eat at the local colourful eateries, preferably on the seafront, and buy inexpensive Turkish souvenirs.
By the way, the amphitheatre sometimes hosts performances and local musicians play in the evenings.

A beautiful quiet bay on the turquoise coast! Here you should spend a cozy evening, have a small picnic and swim in the cleanest sea!

Finally you can catch your breath, have dinner and go to bed. The excursions of the next days will be no less intense and no less interesting!