Come summer, Çınarcık moves in one direction: toward the water. The coast road runs squeezed between the sea and the hillside, and the district feels caught between the two. Join in if you like, but you don't have to — looking down from the hill or wandering the summer streets aimlessly works just as well. If crowds wear you out, try the early hours; that's when the district looks most like itself. Can't decide? Roll the die and go wherever it lands.