How Turkey became the new Maldives

Exclusive resort Bijal has the feel of an island hideaway

I’d expected many things from Bijal, Turkey’s newest, most exclusive luxury resort, but a late-evening choral singsong wasn’t one of them.

And yet, on my first night, as I strolled back from the palm-framed terrace at the tranquil Beach House restaurant, a cacophony of tweets, cheeps and chirrups rose up from the narrow waterway running parallel to the path.

Tree frogs and cicadas, late-night birds chattering to each other; a deluge of natural chatter that made me feel I was somewhere far more tropical than Turkey.

By Annabelle Thorpe.

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