How about a trip to Turkey North Coast

Northern Turkey is nothing like elsewhere in Turkey. For starters, it’s green here, very green. As a result, forests and dense woodland are commonplace, a sight rarely seen elsewhere in this hot and sunny country. Secondly, the coastline is rugged, with steep cliffs, mountains, numerous river valleys, and often a sense you’ve stepped back in time a few hundred years, with dirt tracks more common than paved roads in many places.
Getting about here isn’t as straight forward as most of Europe, but this does make for a greater sense of adventure. The furthest west we’d recommend you go is the town of Amasra, a small, but delightful little town with a lovely beach and through-and-through charm. From here, head east, through Sinop and Samsun, to Trabzon. Each a little different, but all with a relatively laid back and relaxed sense of calm, certainly in comparison to the heaving resorts of the Med and Aegean.
This is the sort of region where hiring your own car makes a great deal of sense… and a satnav! It’ll give you the freedom to explore this region without being tied to local transport which is often frustratingly slow and stops off at all sorts of places you’d rather it just went right on past! This is also a great region to start the exploration of central and eastern Turkey, the latter of which is a region which is notoriously tricky to get reliable transport in, but historically and culturally well worth a visit.