Köyceğiz is 60 km to Muğla province and employs a unique breathy thanks to its orange gardens descending from a plane towards the periphery of a lake, village houses, reed around the lake, mountains transforming from the purple to blue.
The city of Kaunos, that has been anciently founded as an important port and trade center of Karia in ancient times, at the area where the lake unites to the sea also increases the importance of the town by means of tourism. Cold-Hot Thermal Spas in the Sultaniye village of Köyceğiz play an important role in health tourism. On the other hand, Yayla Village and Gökçeova on the north are centers for safari tourism. There are mud bathes and plants in the Horozlar place of Çandır Village.
Ekincik Bay, in the Mediterranean side of Köyceğiz, is one of the ideal places for water sports, swimming, water surf with its long beach, wonderful bay and yacht marina.
There are many thermal springs on the west of the Köyceğiz Lake that is to say on the east of Ölemez Mountain within the borders of Sultaniye Village. According to the examinations and researches held by the experts under the instructions of Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Health, many spas, springs and fresh water sources are explored. The most important ones being operated for health purposes are Hasan Çavuş Ilıcası and Kokar Girme spas.
The history of Sultaniye Spas reach to very early periods. They are used as health sources long before Christ. They are served to the use of the people in Roman, Eastern Roman, Seljuk and Ottoman reigns. It has been a hospital that may serve 400 patients at the same time in the Roman period. According to the historians, the expression "For the name of Gods, Death may not enter here" was written on the entrance of such hospital.
For the ones to arrive via airlines, Dalaman airport is 27 km to Köyceğiz. If you will arrive by road, first come down to Gökova from İzmir-Muğla direction and then take the Antalya direction just after you pass Sakar crossing. Continue 26 km from Marmaris crossroads and arrive in Köyceğiz. For the ones to come with bus, there are shuttle scheduled voyages to Köyceğiz from İstanbul, Ankara using bus agencies like Kamil Koç and Pamukkale.
