One of the stops we wanted to make yesterday was at the very strange Eco Dream Club Resort. There are a lot of all inclusive style resorts along this part of Turkiye's coastline. They're very quiet at this time of year, and in fact many of them totally close up during the winter and re-open in March.
But there is one big resort here that closed up in 2014, and never re-opened. The abandoned Naturland Holiday Area Eco Dream Club Resort.
There's not a lot of information available online. I found references to a German billionaire who built the fantasy resort for his Turkish girlfriend. It was a really popular place between 2000 and 2012, but it closed without warning in June of 2014, and has been left to decay every since. There's nobody stopping anybody from entering the property, and it's been vandalized and looted over the years.
There are still photographs and youtube videos available online of what the place used to be like when it was a going concern. What a shame that it was just allowed to get into a state of disrepair.
I wasn't really planning on doing before and after photos, but I did manage to find some photos online that sort of match up with some that I took yesterday...
Amazing that it has only taken 8 years to deteriorate this much.
There was even a funicular rail leading to the upper levels.
These were once beautiful wooden accomodations.
There is one section done up like Noah's Ark.
Ruth, saying "take a picture of that".
So I did!
The amphitheatre.
Noah's Ark.
What a strange place. Hard to believe that nobody had enough of a financial interest to look after it. Somebody must still own the property. But of course it would cost a fortune to make the property useable. It's all very odd.
We ended up at the parking area for Goynuk Canyon, and we are going for a hike this morning before heading to the big city of Antalya.
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That is amazing and sad. There is a fancy, Greek-themed oceanfront resort on Ambergris Caye, Belize that is in a similar situation. It used to be high-end but has now fallen into severe disrepair. Doesn't take long for that to happen in a coastal location, with the humid, salty air. Sad to see the before and after photos.
ReplyDeleteWe totally agree with you! You are right, it really doesn't take long for the weather and the elements of the sea/ocean to take over stuff, plus of course you also have to add in the human element that seems to love to totally destroy stuff once it has been abandoned! We saw a similar resort near Playa del Carmen way back in 2009. I think it was abandoned after it was destroyed by a hurricane.
DeleteIt was an interesting place! We really enjoy exploring these abandoned places, you just never know what you might come across.
ReplyDeleteIt's fun to explore abandoned places. It makes you wonder what goes through their heads. Now the place is destroyed when it could have been boarded up and put a watchie man on duty.
ReplyDeleteYep, it is definitely fun and very interesting poking around places like this. We have know idea why they just walked away from it, you would think that someone could have come in and taken it over. I guess they never put a watchman on duty because who would pay him?!
DeleteYes I too find it always weird that place's like that just get abandoned and nobody care's.
ReplyDeleteIt is neat that there are places like this that you can poke around and explore but it makes you wonder how someone could have just walked away from it and that the banks or government didn't do something about it before it got to the point that it really can't be repaired!
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