Bodrum Peninsula Guide

Bodrum Travel Guide: Bodrum is the Turkish Emerald Coast at its most dazzling. It's a fashionable vacation spot with a marina full of bobbing yachts ready to take you out to the Mediterranean; several ancient sights to explore; and a town full of photogenic old whitewashed houses. Once the ancient city of Halicarnassus, by the end of the Ottoman era Bodrum had become a simple fishing village, but everything changed in the 1940s when tourism came into the picture. The Bodrum Peninsula is located on Turkey's southwestern coast, on the Aegean Sea. It is easily accessible from Istanbul and has long been a summer retreat for wealthy Turkish travelers.