Didim
This seaside resort town has grown up immensely in the last 30 years, famous for miles long golden, sandy beaches and the calm, crystal clear Aegean sea around Didim, it is one of the favorite holiday destinations for Brits who has bought apartments in Didim, most of them in Altinkum district, the seaside part of Didim.
Ilktomi
real estate covers the whole region of Didim including Altinkum, Akbuk
and Mavisehir, offering apartments and villas in didim built by reputable developers in the
Didim region.
Countless bars and restaurants mainly at the
Altinkum promenade are well visited by holiday makers and Europeans who
has chosen Didim as new hometown to live permanently. Recommendable
very good Restaurants are Dolunay, at the promenade, Arti Restaurant on
the Atatürk Boulevard famous for the best steaks in town and Mekan with
live music every night.
Unlike Didim center which has been
overrun in the property boom of the last years, when more then 500 Real
estate agencies one next to another where counted in town, the small
sleepy resort Akbuk is surrounded by mountains and just 10 km from
Didim center.
In
History also called Didyma, ancient sanctuary and seat of the famous
oracle of Apollo, located south of Miletus in modern Turkey. Before
being plundered and burned by the Persians (ac. 494 BC), the sanctuary
was in the charge of the Branchids, a priestly caste named after
Branchus, a favorite youth of Apollo. After Alexander the Great
conquered Miletus (334), the oracle was re sanctified; the city
administered the cult, annually electing a prophet. About 300 BC the
Milesians began to build a new temple, intended to be the largest in
the Greek world. The annual festival held there, the Didyma, became Pan
hellenic in the beginning of the 2nd century BC. Excavations made
between 1905 and 1930 revealed all of the uncompleted new temple and
some carved pieces of the earlier temple and statues.
Made
a township in 1991, Didim is a peninsula surrounded with the most
beautifully beaches the Akbuk cove in the east, the Aegean Sea in the
south and west and the lake Bafa and the river Meander in the north.
Where to stay?
If you like to relax and looking for serenity it is for sure the Holiday Resort 10 km out of Didim at the entrance to Akbuk
How to get to Didim?
Didim is 100 km from Aydin, 50 km from Söke, 70 km from Kusadasi, and 110 km from Bodrum. The Bodrum international Airport is 60 Km. A ferry is planed to connect Didim with Yalikavak on the north side of the Bodrum Peninsula. Yalikavak is only 20 miles from Didim by Ferry.
