Sedir Cleopatra Island Pictures

Sedir Island, one of the most important stopping points of the Blue Voyage in the Gulf of Gökova, attracts great attention from local and foreign tourists. At the 12th km of the Marmaris-Muğla road, the road turns left again, and after 6 km, it takes you to another point of Gökova Gulf, Çamlı Pier. As the boats fill up from Çamlı Pier, they go to Sedir Island. Sedir Island tours start after May 15 and continue until October.

Sedir Island, visited by approximately 100 thousand tourists a year, attracts the attention of local and foreign tourists as it is both an archaeological and natural site. Sedir Island is known for the ancient city of Cedrae (Kedrai) and the famous Cleopatra Beach. It is believed that Cleopatra and Antonius Caesar had a great love affair on this island.

According to legend, the Egyptian King Antony, who wanted to give a gift of his enthusiasm to Cleopatra who agreed to marry him, brought sand with 60 large ships from Egypt, each of which was less than 1 millimeter in diameter and all the same size, to the island where he would take Cleopatra for her honeymoon about 3000 years ago.

Other features of this special sand, which is known to exist only in two places on Earth, are that it burns in fire, multiplies spontaneously in soda water, and moves when examined under a magnifying glass. The uniquely beautiful color added to the sea by the sand formed by the accumulation of carbonated mud around a core is another feature of the Island worth seeing. It is known that there is a sand similar to the Red Sea.

The ruins of the Temple of Apollo, Theater and Necropolis have survived from the ancient city to the present day. Kedrai means cedars. Although the existence of the durable tree cedar, which is used especially for laying the keel of ships, is not known on the island, this is its meaning in ancient Greek. Kedrai, one of the most important settlements on the opposite side of Rhodes, was surrounded by walls. There is a temple of Apollo in the Doric order in the central part of the city, whose towers and walls can be seen on the shore.

In the eastern part of the island, there is a theater facing north and in very good condition. Excluding large urbanizations such as Knidos, theaters can be seen in only three of the ancient settlements in the Marmaris-Bozburun region, called Rhodes Karşıyaka. During the Peloponnesian Wars between Athens and Isparta, the city was visited in B.C.

In 405, the Spartan general Lysander, who attacked because he was pro-Athens, captured the island and enslaved its people. Historian