Antalya Airport → Kumluca Transfer

Kumluca is the name on the booking, but it is usually the district people mean rather than the town. It begins in the east at Olimpos and Çıralı, crosses the shoulder of the Beydağları and runs down to Adrasan, Mavikent and Karaöz on the open coast — villages that share little beyond an administrative boundary. The town in the middle of it lives off its greenhouses: kilometres of plastic across the plain, tomatoes and peppers loaded for export, a market that fills the streets once a week, shops that stay open through the winter. Hardly anyone sleeps in the centre; they drive through it.

The drive splits cleanly in two. As far as Tekirova it is the Kemer coast — the bypass north of Antalya, the descent past Konyaaltı, then the D400 with the water alongside. After that the road leaves the sea, climbs into pine forest and works over a pass of long, even curves for a good twenty minutes before dropping into the greenhouse plain. 110 km in all, about 95 minutes. The pass decides most of that: it is slow in rain, and behind a loaded lorry on the climb there is no room to get past for kilometres at a time.