Alaçatı Herb Festival

The Alaçatı area’s wild greens – known collectively in Turkish as “ot” – are celebrated each spring at the popular Alaçatı Herb Festival. People from around the region stream into Alaçatı’s tiny town centre to attend cooking demonstrations, participate in herb-gathering excursions in the

hills around town and sample the greens-inspired wares of local home cooks – from thyme honey to lavender-flower paste and nettle bread to spinach cake.