Friday, January 17, 2025

Beautiful Places in Marmaris / Turkey

As a result of dune movements, the 600-meter strip that starts from the land and divides the bay into two was called Kızkumu. Various legends are told about the formation of this road, which also functions as a natural breakwater:

In ancient times, the daughter of the king of the region and a fisherman fell in love with each other. However, the world situation prevails at that time, the king’s daughter cannot reach the fisherman. Moreover, the father who said this is the King! In this case, of course, the girl and the young man meet in secret… The king father learns this in time and makes his daughter follow him one night. They say that the fisherman comes from the sea, your daughter is waiting for her on the beach, pointing to her place with the light, then the boy comes to the light and your daughter and the boy are playing love games with each other until the day breaks… The king who hears these is angry. The king kills even if this is the daughter who is against his orders. One night he catches his daughter and tells his soldiers to send a sign to the fisherman with light on the beach. When the young man sees the light, he jumps into his boat and runs into a squad soldier… The girl gets rid of the soldiers and starts running in order to save his beloved, but it is impossible for the sheep to catch up to the other end… But this is love, he does not listen to the rule, he throws himself into the waters… At that moment a miracle happens! While every place where the girl steps turns into a beach, the soldiers running after her sink into the sea with all that weight… The girl can run to the boat, but an archer is aiming at the young man and waving his arrow… Alas! The girl and the young man have already hugged each other and that arrow comes and meets the girl… They say that the sands are painted red when the girl’s blood mixes into the sea… The young man goes as he takes the daughter, then what sees and hears …

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