In the southeast part of Anatolia, on the way to Bodrum from Milas, Aegean sea will meet you among the green trees with a beautiful view. This is the Güllük Bay.

Güllük Bay, called Mandalya once, takes its new Güllük. You can be attracted by the white Mediterranean houses, cobblestone streets, friendly people, fish restaurants, and cafes as soon as you enter the town.

Güllük is developing rapidly with the increasing number of tourists. New hotels, cafes, restaurants, and roads are being built everyday. The town is expecting more and more guest everyday. Now it attracts ore attention with boat trips, scuba diving facilities, beautiful shore and the festival held on the first Sunday of July, every year.

Living History in Güllük
There are many ancient cities in Güllük. "Iassos" is the most important one. There we can see the ruins of the antique theater, " agora" ( the bazaar), some of the temples, tombs, gates of the city, and water archs and on a small hill beyond the bay there is "Borgylia", which is now called Varvil.

There are also lots of legends and stories told in Güllük. Most of these are on friendship between people and dolphins. In one these stories a very beautiful child called "Hermias" gets lost in the bay and later found by a dolphin and brought to the shore on the dolphin's back. Unfortunately they both die on the shore. Now their friendship is symbolized by a statue of a dolphin with a child on its back in the center of the town.