A cluster of treehouses form the optimal, and only, accommodation option for your stay in this remote Turkish outpost. Most of these cosy, wooden cabins are solar-powered and surrounded by fruit trees, a mountainous backdrop and the occasional chicken strolling past.

Although some of Olympos’s history remains a mystery today, what we do know is that this tiny town was an ancient city in Lycia. Its ruins are still scattered in this magical place, and a walk to the beach prompts a history lesson as you spot remains of an ancient city on either side of your path to the sea.

Beyond your tree house’s doors, you’ll find small, elevated wooden shelters fitted out with Turkish cushions, where Antalya-style feasts are dished out. Many tree house bookings include morning and nightly meals, which are often vegetarian Turkish platters, featuring cheese-filled cigars, and desserts. Breakfast, at many tree houses, come complete with omelettes cooked to your liking, watermelon slices in large quantities, feta, olives, Turkish breads and salad. En route to the sea, unassuming dirt-floored restaurants serve some of Turkey’s best national dishes. And, at the beach, vendors balance bowls of seafood on their heads to sell to hungry sun bakers.

With warm sunshine (almost) all-year long, Olympos’s pebble beach, with its beautiful, blue still waters is swim-ready most months of the year. Its waters’ high salt content makes floating for hours on end a breeze. Watch as locals climb a towering rock to dive from, and look up at the mountain that shelters the beach, to spy ruins of the ancient city dappled throughout.

A walk (or short mini-bus ride) from Olympos is Tahtali Dag, or Mount Olympos. Here, you can witness a unique phenomenon: The Chimaera. The Chimaera are a gathering of eternal flames that have been burning brightly for thousands of years. They’re inextinguishable, natural gas flames that are believed, by locals, to be the breath of a fire-breathing creature that lives under the rocky earth.