Look for very cheap holidays to Turkey and treat your loved ones to a dream vacation here. There are plenty of fun and exciting activities that you and your loved ones can do here. The stupendous scenery in this place will definitely bring you a feeling of great comfort and relaxation. The friendly locals will also make your stay here a most pleasant one. Make sure to visit Kaunos when you go here at Turkey. You will surely find this place a great and very interesting and historic attraction.

The ruins of Kaunos are a few kilometers west of the current day town of Dalyan in Muğla Province, Turkey. The city was located on the border between Caria and Lycia and in earlier times, Kaunos was one of the principal ports of southern Caria. Kaunos was said to have been founded by Miletus and named for his son Kaunos. Kaunos is believed to have fled from the city because of the unnatural feelings between himself and his sister. In Greek mythology, Kaunos was the brother of Byblis who fell in love with him. He ran away and she followed him through much of Greece and Asia Minor until she finally died, tired and sad. In her despair she was on the point of leaping from a rock into the sea, but was kept back by nymphs, who sent her into a profound sleep. In this sleep she was made into an immortal Hamadryas; and the little stream which came down that rock was called by the neighboring people the tears of Byblis.

Information about the occupants of Kaunos is the ancient historian Herodotus, who lived in the 5th century B.C. In his account Kaunos was the capital of the region between Caria and Lycia which were home to several cities. According to Herodotus, the people of Kaunos believed they came from Crete like the Lycians and Carians - but were actually an Anatolian people. The burial tombs are distinguished from their Lycian counterparts by being independent, almost free-standing masses carved out of the bedrock. The buildings surviving from the period hint at the economic power of Kaunos, which fell into the hands of Alexander the Great in 334 B.C. and, after his death, under the rule first of Rhodes and later of the Ptolemies and then the Seleucids.

It was well known for its unhealthy location in wet marshlands which attracted mosquitos which in turn promoted malaria. The people of Kaunos were often referred to as the yellow people and were also said to be a people who liked to enjoy themselves and drank to excess. On the site there is a monument to Professor Dr. Baki Ögün, the initiator of the Kaunos project, who died in 2001.

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