As a guest of TOHUM, you will experience traveling in Turkey in a gentle, environmentally and health conscious, earth honoring way. You will have the opportunity to visit and live in traditional villages, cook with the local women, participate in daily life with donkey rides, organic farming, folk dancing and other activities. You will be able to visit magnificent sandy beaches where the endangered loggerhead turtles still lay their eggs, ancient sites and centers of Anatolian civilizations which spread from Neolithic Matriarchal to Lycean, Hittite,Byzantian, Roman and Ottoman. As a special treat, in some of our journeys you will experience the Sufi centers of Konya with remarkable guests.

You will be able to swim and snorkel or dive in the waters of the Mediterranean and hike around the high pastures of the majestic Taurus mountains. While traveling on the Mediterranean coast TOHUM staff will lead you through the magical sites of ancient Lycia. By Road, in an unspoiled environment of majestic mountains and a rugged magnificent coastline, we explore enchanted forests, hidden valleys and secluded nature preserves. Depending on the month, the flora is rich with herbs, wildflowers and wild plants. Friendly villagers welcome the traveler. By sea, during yacht cruises, we will swim and snorkel in some of the most pristine bays and coves of the Mediterranean. Most of all, traveling with TOHUM, you will have the opportunity to develop heart-to-heart relationships with people from different countries.

YUVA Natural Living Center

Healing Arts and Eco-Holidays

TOHUM offers Healing Arts Workshops and Vacations and relaxing Eco-Holidays at its Mediterranean center YUVA also known as TOHUM CENTER , a perfect Mediterranean retreat, a nature preserve with a rich flora of aromatic plants scattered around 400 acres of pine forest. Playful paths descend to the refreshing waters of the turquoise sea, where one can swim or take a boat ride to secluded coves.The nearby village offers plenty of opportunities to experience daily life in a traditional culture. The lovely Mediterranean town of Fethiye (the ancient Telmessos), at 45 minutes distance, is a picturesque port with lively street markets, restaurants and shops. The whole region is an open museum offering spectacular rock tombs,amphitheaters, temples and antique cities of the Lycean civilization, an ancient Anatolian Kingdom dating back to 14 Century B.C.


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ACCOMMODATIONS: The Center blends the benefits of modern conveniences with the charm and timeless beauty of local village dwellings built from local and environmentally sound materials such as stone, wood, mud and hay. Our guests stay in five two-bedroom houses and five one- bedroom huts. The rooms are bright and comfortable, most with spectacular views of the Mediterranean. They all have private bathrooms and showers with hot water supplied by solar energy.


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FOOD: During TOHUM events, the Center caters to vegetarian, vegan and macrobiotic guests. Meals are healthful, energizing and satisfying. You will discover the lost flavors and aromas of traditional country cuisine cooked with care by "seasoned" cooks from different regions of Turkey. We get fantastic reports from our guests!

TOHUM food artisans create delicious, well-balanced, mostly organic vegetarian dishes by using nutritious TOHUM products. In our cooking, we use whole grains, beans, freshly picked vegetables, fruits, nuts and wild herbs which abound in our organic gardens and surrounding fields. No refined sugars, meat, chemical or artificially processed foods are available. Fish can be eaten sometimes at the Center or in restaurants during trips. Freshly made dairy products are available in the village.





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How to get to YUVA/TOHUM CENTER

The Center is situated on White Cape, near the Oludeniz Lagoon, on the Western corner of the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, right where the Aegean and the Mediterranean meet. The nearest town is Fethiye and the closest island is Rhodes (Greece).

By air: The nearest airports are Dalaman (1½ hrs.) and Antalya (3½ hrs). Some airlines offer direct flights to these airports from Europe or the U.S. during the summer months. Otherwise the best way is to connect via Istanbul. There are continuous Turkish Airlines bus services to Fethiye from Dalaman airport.

TOHUM staff will pick you up from the Turkish Airlines terminal in Fethiye, provided they are advised beforehand. Those arriving to Antalya airport should make arrangements to be picked up by TOHUM staff from the airport, or take a taxi into Antalya's bus station and get a bus to Fethiye. TOHUM staff will pick you up from the bus terminal in Fethiye, provided they are advised beforehand.

By sea: a very pleasant way to arrive is to take a four hour ferry ride to Fethiye from Rhodes, Greece. Check with TOHUM offices offices on ferry schedules.