Kaş Travel Guide
Plan your stay in Kaş with our guide to beaches, bays, restaurants, local spots and practical tips. Discover Luna Kaş’s favorite places in Kaş, Turkiye.
Local Tips
When Is the Best Time to Visit Kaş? A Month-by-Month Guide
There is no single right answer to “when should I go to Kaş?” — because the answer depends on what you want to do. The month with the warmest sea is the worst month for walking. The week the town is at its liveliest is the wrong week for anyone seeking quiet. Below we set […]
Activities & Sports
Staying in Shape on a Kaş Holiday
The town is built on a hill, the sea is cold enough to swim properly and the local food is vegetables and olive oil. What actually matters here is heat and water, not calories.
Activities & Sports
Kaş Dive Sites: Eighteen Places and How Deep They Are
From a first try-dive at Güvercin Ada to a Savoia-Marchetti bomber at 71 metres. Wrecks, walls, canyons and caves, with depths, plus what is protected and must be left alone.
Local Tips
The Plants of Kaş, Including One That Grows Nowhere Else
Ophrys lycia has 237 plants left and exists only in Kaş district. Plus carob, sage, oregano and nettle, with a photograph of each, where to find them and what not to pick.
Local Tips
Why a Holiday in Kaş Is Different
Not the beaches and not the ruins. What actually makes Kaş work is the difficult drive, the fifteen-minute radius, the absence of resorts, and cold fresh water coming up through a limestone seabed.
Local Tips
Places to Visit in Kaş: The Complete List
Everything worth seeing from Kaş, grouped by how far you have to go: the walkable town, the beaches, six ancient cities, the boat days, and the mountain villages. With distances and links to the full guides.
Transportation
The Nearest Airports to Kaş, and Which One to Book
Dalaman is 154 km away and Antalya 199 km, but the drive differs by only twenty minutes. Measured distances, transfer options, and why the Atatürk advice you may have read is six years out of date.
Transportation
How to Get to Kalkan, and Where It Actually Is
Measured road distances from both airports, Fethiye and Kaş, which bus company runs the coast, and three things most guides get wrong: Kalkan is not a district, Fethiye is not forty minutes away, and the Havaş shuttle does not go there.
Local Tips
How to Photograph Kaş: Light, Places and Times
Sunrise and sunset times for Kaş, where the sun really goes down (not behind Meis), seven places worth standing and the hour to be at each, and the craft bits that matter on a phone.
Activities & Sports
Gömbe: Cedar Forests and Cold Water in the Highlands Above Kaş
Ninety minutes north of Kaş, at 1,200 metres, Gömbe has a karst-fed lake that stays at 12 degrees, a waterfall that only runs from May to September, old cedar forest, and goat kebab out of a wood oven. How to get there and what to plan around.