What would life have been like on Turkey’s Aegean Coast thousands of years ago for the ancient Greeks and Romans who once lived here? While we can’t know for sure, all the remnants of those civilisations can give us a pretty good idea, and make for some fascinating attractions while on holiday in Gumbet. Who said history was boring?!

 

At just less than 2 miles from Bodrum a holiday in Gumbet gives you the ideal opportunity to explore this popular coastal town and everything that it has to offer. In more recent history Bodrum was a fishing village, much like Gumbet once was, but Bodrum has ancient history too. The modern town is built on the site where there was once an ancient Greek city called Halicarnassus. Not too much of that ancient city remains though there is an amphitheatre right on the road to Gumbet that you can look around. This large theatre was not actually completed until Roman times, and it’s benefited from a lot of renovation in more recent years.

 

Elsewhere in Bodrum you can see what little remains of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Mausoleum of Mausolus, but it’s Bodrum Castle that the town is most famous for. Officially named the Castle of St Peter, it dates back to 1402 with numerous additions made over the hundreds of years since then. Visiting the castle is one of the top things to do while on holiday in Gumbet, and you must make sure you also visit the Museum of Underwater Archaeology that’s housed here, as it’s an excellent museum.

 

If you hire a car and want to explore the region in more detail you can head out along the Bodrum Peninsula to the village of Gumusluk. This is a popular tourist destination itself, though it’s fairly quiet when compared to Gumbet and Bodrum! Gumusluk is built on the site of an ancient city called Myndos. It dates back to the 4^th century BC and there are ruins from the ancient city to be found around the waterfront. If you want to be adventurous go exploring underwater as you can see more of the ruins submerged under the Aegean Sea!