Datca-Peninsula is regarded as one of the last refuges where animal kingdom and plant world, air and water is still intact.

This small town Datca with 8000 inhabitants is located on this peninsula between Agean and Mediterranean Sea which is narrow and about 70 kilometres long, mountainous until 1400 metre and densely wooded. Everywhere one goes, remains of ancient Greek town Knidos, which was the centre of doric Hexapolis between Kos, Rhodos and Halikarnassos (today's Bodrum) since 700 B.C., will be discovered. For years Turkish and German archaelogists have been digging out Triopion, the Temple of Apollo, a oracle place, where the doric rulers, warriors, athletes and dramatists met for consultation, competition and cultural activities and even a place which is, according to Herodot, one of the most important shrines after Olympia and Delphi.

A stretch of coast between Triopion and Datca holds a miracle of nature, which is only known for geologists and ecology group society of Datca (Datçev). This miracle is called "Gebekum", in English: "the pregnant sand" and it consists of six million years old dunes, which hold the history of fauna and flora of Mediterranean Sea.

Datca is a district town for few villages, where the people cultivate olives, citrus fruits, tomatoes and pumpkins. On the beaches and slopes, which hitherto escapes the European mass tourism, families from Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir spend their holidays during the summertime, therefore 30,000 people live on the Peninsula Datca, in the rest of the year there are only 10,000 people, less than in the 4th century of Praxiteles.

Further information about Datca and neighbourhood can be found here:

www.datcainfo.com