Mehmet has built up Kaunos Tours himself from a small motorbike rental shop in 1990 to an extremely organised and efficient fully operational travel agency. His concentration has always been on excellence first and allow growth second. This has put the business in fantastic stead and he alone has been responsible for building up a very loyal client base that is the majority of Kaunos Tours business.

Concerned with local environmental and social issues, Mehmet (Memo to his friends) sits on local committees responsible for the development of Dalyan and the local area. He is known by all the local council officials, government, police and jandarme as someone who is always seeking to improve Dalyan as a resort while at the same time protecting its special status as an unspoilt and nature protected area.

Mehmet has the most detailed knowledge of the local mountains and surrounding villages of any person in the Dalyan area. He spends all his spare time, including each winter, exploring the mountains, lakes, rivers and canyons and discovering new tracks, trying to incorporate his discoveries into his tours so he can share his knowledge. When new army officials come to the Dalyan area, Mehmet is the first person they come to to get an understanding of the lay of the land.

Above all. his hospitality and dedication to ensuring the happiness of all around him makes him the perfect friend. Not one person who meets him is not touched by his humanity.

Myles met and teamed up with Mehmet in 1995. At the time the main reason was that Memo he offered Myles a job as a guide and salesman, a position he was searching for having discovered Dalyan and wishing to spend a second summer there. The relationship grew quickly into a great partnership where Myles showed his strengths in organisation and IT to make the agency cope and then thrive with the increased customer base that Memo had built up.

Over the next years Myles built and now runs the Kaunos Tours and Dalyan.co.uk websites. He does a huge amount to promote the firm in the UK.

His ambitions are to grow the website traffic and UK market presence year on year. So far this goal has been achieved each year and the successes keep on driving him forward.

His main values are trust, friendship and loyalty; each of these flowing over into commitment to Kaunos Tours.

Sonja has had a very active life, living every moment to the full. Starting out teaching swimming and working for the World Games in the Hague, she has focused her career on outdoor activities, specialising now in Sea Kayaking. She has been kayaking the coast of Turkey since 1999. As well as sea kayaking, Sonja is a very proficient guide, single handedly taking mountain biking, trekking, rafting, canyoning and camping tours. She speaks Dutch, English, Turkish, German and French. Over the last years she has been active exploring the area, following and first aid courses, building and running the computersystem at the Kaunos Tours office.

Koray has worked for Kaunos Tours for over 5 years and has a vast amount of experience in the local area. His unassuming and professional manner earns him great respect from all who work with him.

Koray's organisational talents and logical approach make him a perfect transfer logistics expert. With many talents besides and never a hesitation to get involved, you will see Koray all over the village, constantly busy and rushing from place to place.

Tunay joins the team since 2003. His professional driving, spontaneously makes you feel at home while he takes you from the Dalaman airport to your accommodation in Dalyan. If you don't see him in the car he will be in the office giving information about Dalyan or guiding one the many tours. Tunay's feeling and capability of making it people at their ease makes him a perfect perfect person to guide.

Ramazan is already for over more then 10 years active as an jeep safari guide. Starting in the village he was born, Gocek, guiding week trips. In all these years he has learned to cope with all kind of situation and knows very good how to entertain the guests. Now way will get lost or stuck on one of his tours. Ramazan knows every small road and his technical experience is too much to fit in a book.

Ramazan's organising and entertaining talents makes every tour a different adventure. He makes the group feel as a family after one day.

Ruya is one of the other staff who works behind the scenes. She cleanes all private villas for already more then 2 years. Her quik hand and sharp look makes all villas shine as new. She never minds to help a hand in the garden. The days she has time you can find her with her family having a picnick on the beach.

Nuket is working at the administration department of Kaunos Tours. This intelligent young ladies is very quick with computers and figures. Her spontaneously laugh makes everybody smile and happy. With her energetic input she gets everybody running again. In her free time she loves to be in the nature, going to the turtle beach with friends, and we are mostly proud on the lovely cakes she makes.

Seba is the greatest manger on earth. She is just like an octopus. While managing the preparations of all the private villas she also manage the whole house holding of the the Cobanoglu family. Raising up Ege and Toprak, their two young boys, who have more energy then you can get from 3 cans of red bull. Besides all these activities she also finds time to cook delicious meals, organise Turkish BBQ's and practising her hobby designing.

Engin is the man behind the scenes. Every morning he cleans the pools, arranges the garden and helps you with any technical problem you have. His trained and experienced look on gardens, pools and properties makes it a piece of cake for him to organise the many villas.

You can see Engin racing around in Dalyan on his bike, as he loves to ride it. If he finds the peace to sit down, that will be with some good music and a nice cup of tea.

Cenko is the smallest man in town, hiding himself behind his camera he is making the most spectacular movies, pictures and CDs.

While studying the University for Tourism in Istanbul you could find Cenko behind the turning table being a DJ. Later on Cenko got interested in videoing, editing , web site design. One day he came to Dalyan to make the 1st promotion film of Kaunos Tours and he never left