After visiting the many attractions of Fethiye and the surrounding area, each traveler must examine the twelve islands. This can be done to make excursions by boat or by renting a motorboat to inspect their own cozy coves. The trip allows you to enjoy the magnificent nature and get a lot of pleasure from bathing in picturesque coves. All twelve islands of various sizes, are wonderful sandy and pebble beaches are deserted and covered with forests. Gliding along the beach, a pleasure boat stop near the remnants of the stone yards, where earlier the repair pirate ships and provide an opportunity to plunge into the cool waters of the numerous bays.

Typically, the first or the last stop going to the Knight Island, opposite the Fethiye. In ancient times, the island was used by the Knights of Rhodes for the defense, and therefore got its name. Indeed, while there, you realize that this is the perfect place for a sentry post. Now the island there is a small village, there is a café, a hotel and several cottages. Between the island and the mainland boats constantly ply-dolmushi.

The next rate is bound to be an island Kyzylada (Red Island). The name of the island was due to interesting optical effect - the coastal pebbles and sand in the rays of the setting sun takes on a reddish hue. The only building on the island - a pretty old lighthouse. The eastern part of the island is closed from the wind and is a great place for swimming.

To the north-west of the island is located the Red Deliktash, which consists of several closely spaced small islands. Diving just love this place. Under the water this place is much more beautiful than on it.

The next cluster of islands called Yassidzha. Only four islands, and they are so close to each other that each of them can easily be reached from the nearby swimming. The distance between the closest islands just 12 meters. Their main attraction is a sandy promontory stretching into the sea, and comfortable natural swimming pool located on the tiny size of the largest of the islands. If you wish, you can stroll along the beach, but it's better for it to capture sports shoes.

Zeytin Island is located to the north of the island Yassidzha and is privately owned. There are in Ottoman times was built a small factory for the production of olive oil, which operates to this day.

Tersane Island - the largest island of the Gulf. In the days of the Ottoman Empire, the Greeks lived here, but after their deportation to the island there were only a few old houses and a church. In addition, here you can see the ruins of the fortress. Previously, the small bays of the island were used for the construction of ships, namely those caused by its second name - Island shipyard. The bays Jaz (summer) and Shoo (winter) often stop the ships and boats engaged on pleasure cruises. There are so shallow bay, which can seem like a lake on the island. In the north-west of the island is the bay Tashyaka. Here the artist Bedri Rahmi painted a fish on one of the rocks.

The island is also called Island Domuz Prince. Once there vodilos a large number of wild boars. The harbor of the island is protected from the wind and come here with pleasure ships to anchor. In the north of the island is the bay Gёbyun Domuz. It has a very narrow entrance and a long corridor, surrounded by olive and pine trees. If you disembark in the most extreme point of the bay, you can see the ancient ruins and rock tombs. However, the boat, making diurnal walks, drop in here very rarely.

No dinghy not pass Hamam Bay. They come here for swimming and lunch, and sometimes even stop for the night. Right next to the marina there are fragments of the walls of the Byzantine monastery. On the island you can take a pleasant stroll through the woods or along the coast. An excellent tour will climb Mount Yavansu where are the ruins of the ancient city of Lida. The hammam Cleopatra can walk through waist-deep water on the muddy rocks.

In the Gulf of Cleopatra baths, surrounded by pine forest, very beautiful deep blue color of the water, sometimes turns into a light blue. The bay is quite large, and it is so named because of a roman baths, Cleopatra bestowed her close friends. They discovered an underwater hot spring in this part of the Gulf. The water here is very good for the skin, contains many useful trace elements such as calcium and magnesium. Perhaps these amazing shore entered the offering, which is an ally and lover Antony Cleopatra did, giving the rich region of Crete and Cilicia.

Opposite the town Gocek is a group of islands, which are located very close to each other. In the middle of the long sandy part of the largest island of this group is a salt lake. From the biggest to the smallest of the island can be reached by elevation, depth is just one and a half meters.

A trip along the twelve islands of the Bay is sure to be extremely romantic and informative. Islands and tiny islands, small bays and green coast, healthful air and Turkish music, accompanying you on this trip, a feeling of fairy tales and will long remain in your memory.