Selin Toprak

I studied tourism in Izmir and came home to Bodrum to guide because I wanted to show the peninsula beyond the marina everyone already knows. I spend a lot of time in Yalıkavak and Bitez, where the pace is slower and the coastline looks completely different from the postcard version of town. On video calls I like framing a bay from a quiet angle rather than the busiest viewpoint, and I always explain what makes each stretch of water different from the next. Viewers often tell me they had no idea the peninsula had so many separate personalities.