Photograph taken with Sony Cybershot February 2010 Available for sale as Cards, Matted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints, Canvas Prints, Framed Prints and Posters at female Contemporary Art Akyaka, Muğla Akyaka is a coastal township with its own municipality in the Ula district of Muğla Province in southwestern Turkey. The town is situated at the far end of the Gulf of Gökova, at the start of the fertile Gökova plain, and is a rising centre for international tourism due to its advantageous location and natural beauties. It is the first coastal town encountered on the busy road from the province centre of Muğla to the better known resort centre of Marmaris, and its comes into sight, along with a spectacular view of the gulf and the plain, some thirty miles after departure from Muğla at Sakar Pass, a favourite paraglider’s spot where the road descends from an altitude of 670 m. to sea-level in the space of a pine-clad section of a dozen kilometres along very sharp curves. At the base of the hill is the intersection to Akyaka. Locally and casually, erroneously or confusingly, the township of Akyaka is sometimes referred to as Gökova, after the name of the gulf and the plain, while there is also an inland township of Gökova neighbouring Akyaka, whose intersection is further ahead in the direction of Marmaris