Kayakoy town has been abandoned since the compulsory exile of it’s Christian Greek inhabitants during the 1919-922 Greco-Turkish  war

If feeling fit, you can take the trail starting from behind the Fethiye castle (not to be recommended for your children or elderly members of the family)  A few kilometers from Fethiye ancient fortress and rock tomb of King Amyntas, the pine trees give way to the landscape of the Kaya Village

Alternatively, if you do not have a car hire, catch the preverbal dolmus which takes a roundabout route through the towns of Ovacik and Hisaronu

Some of ld Greek stone houses have been carefully restored to provide atmospheric and peaceful holiday homes.

Visitors can walk, cycle or even horse-ride around the pathways and lanes of the valley where a dwindling number of local families till the land and tend their animals,. pausing at the simple teahouses, restaurants and general stores or continuing the few kilometers down to the Gemiler Beach.

Tales are still told of the harmonious relations between the Muslim and Christian populations, with the local Turks accompanying the exiles’ and promising to care take of their possessions until their return.  Unfortunately the Greeks never came back, but the various caskets still remain waiting for such a return

The village is mostly still unoccupied and when seen, leaves a feeling of unbounded sympathy towards the pains endured and events leading up to the sad departure

 Perhaps everyone's most vivid memory of Kaya Valley is the haunting choreography of the houses, shops and churches of the once thriving Greek town of Levissii