Kalkan village accommodation, Turkey

This Kalkan accommodation offers you the opportunity to stay in the heart of a beautiful Turkish village in an old stone cottage that has been carefully renovated using natural materials to preserve its original features and to remain in harmony with the environment. The cottage has been restored using locally produced, recyclable materials to blend in with the village architecture. It was converted using local craftsmen which benefits the community financially. The village carpenter also made some of the furniture.

You will be able to get to know the friendly local people and see how they live. We collaborate with local people to organise visits to out of the way places. All guests are encouraged to use local shops and markets and eat in the trout restaurants in the village. Our breakfasts include home made bread made from locally milled flour. 

It is the owners policy to use local produce. We grow organic vegetables and have grapevines, figs, olives, quince and a wide variety of fruit trees that we look after organically with the help of Ahmet a local gardener, who also helps with maintenance jobs. Plumbing is maintained by Mehmet since we have a simple system piped from a mountain source.

We recycle our waste to make compost and help feed the chickens. We keep chickens and ducks for free range eggs and meat. We encourage bird life in the garden and have bird boxes. We leave some areas uncut to preserve wild flowers. We buy local dairy produce, goats cheese, yoghurt and milk, honey, virgin olive oil and village made tahini, and promote the fish restaurants directly benefiting the local producers.

We now also have a small shop in the village selling these local products along with hand woven kilims and local craft. A speciality of our breakfasts is our home made wholemeal bread made from local stone ground organic flour and olives and conserves from the garden. We also make our own wine from the vineyard which we serve at our weekly barbecue.

We recycle our waste into glass, burnable and organic to make compost for the garden and encourage our guests to do so. We use energy saving light bulbs and turn off all electrical appliances to save energy. We are lucky to have a mountain stream running through the garden which we take care to keep clean. We have natural spring water and solar panels for heating the showers in both of the bathrooms. We use home made olive oil soap in the guest rooms. We try and promote the local culture and discourage inappropriate development and are in contact with tour operators that respect the environment.