İçmeler Beach

This guide to İçmeler Beach traces the town back to a scatter of small mineral springs where locals and travelers once filled cups and canteens, convinced the water could cure a bad stomach or an ailing liver — the very reason the town is named after the Turkish word for drinking. It follows how that belief lasted long enough to name the whole place, even after the springs themselves went quiet under decades of hotels. Feel the gentle slope of the sand as you wade into the same shallow water.