Dalaman - district and town in Muğla Province, Turkey

Dalaman is a town in Turkey, located on its southwestern coast. Situated slightly inland, Dalaman and its airport occupies one of the few plains in this part of the country.

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By plane

The international airport is the nearest airport for destinations such as Marmaris, Dalyan, Fethiye, Kaş and their vicinity. Daily flights connect with Istanbul, while direct flights (both scheduled and charter) to and from major Europe cities occur several times weekly. Dalaman Airport is one of the busiest airports in Western Mediterranean/Southern Aegean regions of Turkey, handling a total of 2.5 million passengers each year.

• Dalaman Airport (IATA: DLM), 36.714722°, 28.792778°. There are two passenger terminals — one for international flights and one for domestic. The terminals are apart and are connected by walkways. Beware the captive-market food and drink pricing: €4 for a Coke, €3 for a small bottle of water, €12 for a Big Mac meal (more expensive even than Haifa), €4 for a packet of crisps.

Getting there: various companies based at the airport will be able to provide you with an airport transfer to your destination. The airport is 6 km from the city of Dalaman and it is possible to walk from the bus station to the airport if you are fit. The walk is flat and takes about 1 hour.

Havaş offers bus tranport to and from the airport from Fethiye and Marmaris. Times are aligned with national flights. If there is not time fitting to your international flight, there are buses between Muğla and Fethiye every 30min stopping at Dalaman bus station. From Dalaman bus station (10-12 km from airport, 5-6 km from town) take a bus to Dalaman town and from there to the airport.

By car

The highway D400, the major road of Mediterranean coast, passes by the town centre about 1 km to east and connects it with destinations south (Fethiye) and north (Marmaris and onward to Muğla).

By ferry

You can reach from Rhodes, Greece to Fethiye, Turkey. After Fethiye, you can go from Fethiye to Dalaman with bus. Rhodes Fethiye Ferry

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• Train Station (a.k.a. Av Köşkü, i.e. Hunting Manor). Perhaps the only station in the world older than 100 years that has never welcomed a train. This building dating back to 1905 exists here as a result of pure accident. Abbas Hilmi Pasha, then Khedive (viceroy) of Egypt, decided to have a hunting manor built here, in land he had purchased. He consulted to a French company for plans of this manor, and for plans of a railway station he intended to build in Alexandria. Plans and materials for both buildings were shipped from France at the same time, but there was a mistake: plans and materials for each building were loaded into the wrong ship, and thus the train station ended up in Dalaman, while the hunting manor made its way to Alexandria. It was found out that shipping the materials once again would be too costly, so the buildings were built in the opposite location they were intended at first. Even a short stretch of rail track, hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest part of rail network, was laid out in front of the building. Today, the elegant building, covered with overgrown ivies all over, serves as the headquarters of the surrounding state farm. Its nicely landscaped large yard, with huge lawns and pretty stately palm trees, is also worth a check.

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