Kabak Koyu

This guide to Kabak Koyu in Muğla traces the valley's unwritten rule against permanent walls, from the Ottoman-era families who farmed its steep terraces and herded goats into the pine ridges, to the shift after the nineteen nineties when that same land turned into a scatter of platform tents and driftwood yoga shalas. You'll hear how a protected-site restriction shaped what the camp builders could and couldn't put up, and why the people running them still fish and keep goats on the side. Look for the old goat paths still cut into the slope above the newer wooden platforms below.