Akyaka View Point. Traditional Cache
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Pirates Akyaka Trail 5.
This cache is part of the Pirates trail which links our other caches together all the way back to Pirates Trail 1 in the Ancient city of Kaunos at the South end of the lake Koycegiz.
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Akyaka is a coastal township with its own municipality in the Ula district of Muğla Province in southwestern Turkey. The town is situated at the far end of the Gulf of Gökova, at the start of the fertile Gökova plain, and is a rising center for international tourism due to its advantageous location and natural beauties. It is the first coastal town encountered on the busy road from the province center of Muğla to the better known resort center of Marmaris, and it comes into sight, along with a spectacular view of the gulf and the plain, some thirty miles after departure from Muğla at Sakar Pass, a favorite paragliders' spot where the road descends from an altitude of 670 m. to sea-level in the space of a pine-clad section of a dozen kilometers along very sharp curves. At the base of the hill is the intersection to Akyaka. Locally and casually, erroneously and confusingly, the township of Akyaka is sometimes referred to as Gökova, after the name of the gulf and the plain, while there is also an inland township of Gökova neighbouring Akyaka, itself of visitor's interest and whose intersection is slightly further ahead from that of Akyaka in the direction of Marmaris.
Akyaka.
There are many beautiful houses and villas, built or inspired by Nail Çakirhan, a famous local architect who won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1983. His Ula-Mugla style of red-roofed, white-washed, two-story houses with ornate pine-timbered eaves and balconies are characteristic of Akyaka.Akyaka has two main areas - upper and lower village. Between the two you can walk down the cobbled streets or take the path through the woods
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