Inceburun

İnceburun is a small bay on the Datça Peninsula in Muğla province, reachable only by boat since no road runs down to the water here. The name itself describes the place: "ince" means thin or narrow, and "burun" means cape or headland, referring to the slim strip of land that separates the bay from the open sea beyond it. Like much of the peninsula's coastline, the shore is backed by pine forest rather than settlement, and the bay owes its quiet character to that lack of road access.

The peninsula runs for close to 100 kilometres between the Aegean Sea to the north and the Mediterranean to the south, and small bays along its edges, İnceburun included, are used mainly as short anchorages rather than destinations in their own right. Boats passing along this stretch of coast typically stop for a swim or a couple of hours at anchor before moving on, since there is little beyond the water and the forest to draw a longer visit.

That simplicity is part of the appeal of sailing itineraries built around Datça: because so many of its bays are still reached only from the sea, many gulet cruises in Turkey call in here, even if only for an afternoon on the way to or from Knidos at the peninsula's western tip.