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# Telmessos

Telmessos or Telmessus, also Telmissus, later Anastasiopolis, then Makri or Macre, was the largest city in Lycia, near the Carian border, and is sometimes confused with Telmessos in Caria.

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## Every way there

- Bodrum → Telmessos Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bodrum-to-telmessos) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bodrum&to=Telmessos)
- Antalya → Telmessos Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/antalya-to-telmessos) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Antalya&to=Telmessos)
- Gaziemir → Telmessos Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/gaziemir-to-telmessos) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Gaziemir&to=Telmessos)

The field note

What is in and around Telmessos, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Telmessos has

- Y Scheduled flights Dalaman (DLM), 31 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Fethiye, 1 km, İDO; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Rhodes, 83 km.

36.618°, 29.118°

It was called Telebehi in the Lycian language. The well-protected harbor of Telmessos is separated from the Gulf of Telmessos by an island.

How locals move

## Getting around Telmessos the local way

- Get in Sky Marine Ferries sail Apr-Oct daily to Rhodes, taking 1 hr 45 minutes.
- Get in Their fast cat leaves Fethiye at 08:30 and sets off back at 16:30, so a day trip from Fethiye gives you six hours in Rhodes, but no reverse day trip is possible.
- Get in Ferries no longer sail to other Aegean ports such as Marmaris.
- Get in Private cruises explore the Lycian coastline but these are round trips not point-to-point ferries.
- Get around Dolmuş minibuses run throughout town; routes you might use are west to Karagözler, north to Çalış, and south to Ölüdeniz.

From [Wikivoyage: Fethiye](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Fethiye), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telmessos), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Dosseman (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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