Shades of blue – a celestial place, off the beaten track

Welcome to the homepage of Ergin's Pension and Restaurant!

And you are not only welcome to our website but even more to the pension and restaurant in Karaburun, on the Aegean cost of Turkey, close to the modern metropole of Izmir (see map below). The village is situated at the tip of the peninsula after which it is named. The pension has only 14 rooms and is being managed as a small family enterprise, meaning that there is a very homey atmosphere. The pension is open year round.

Did you ever dream of spending your holidays right on the water? The pension is situated only a few meters away – literally – from the waterfront in a small bay. Some steep hills and mountains at the back of the village together with the never sleeping breeze from the Aegean bring about a climate, that even in the summer will not get as hot as it does at the Turkish Riviera down south. Nevertheless – people who do not really like a hot summer should not choose to come in July or August.

You can choose bed and breakfast or half pension. It includes an evening meal, rich in the great variety of vegetable dishes and starters of the traditional Turkish cuisine, most of the produce coming fresh from the large kitchen garden. Please ask for the seasonal changing prices.

The chef is Mom, of course, and all meals are served in the open-air restaurant in the shadows of a huge pergola, just some steps away from the water. And of course there is fish, right out of it a few hours ago.

The pension is prepared to accomodate groups of young scouts that may set up their tents in the garden and use the lavatories of the pension. Please ask for the special rates.

Karaburun: Peninsula and village – far away industry and city pollution
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Somewhat smallish, but guests only enjoy water, sun and shadow

Simply furnished: Rooms with "built-in" summer feeling

Up to now, Karaburun with ist 2000 regular inhabitants is a small center to a rural surrounding with small villages and has been spared modern tourist invasion. This fact does not impede citizens of nearby Izmir to make it one of their favorite places in the summer, so that you can count on a modern infrastructure. Anyway, the whole setting appeals primarily to alternative tourists and groups who are looking for peace, nature, recreation along with the chance to get an inside view upon Turkey, its culture, its people and their ways.

This is what quite a number of groups from Germany have profited from, such as youth groups, sports people, seminar and self-help groups, or study groups of the young women Voluntary Social Services from Munich.

The 14 doubles of the Ergin Pansiyon Restoran are simply but functionally furnished, all of them having their own shower and toilet. (But: Other than just for sleeping no one is really ever in the rooms.)