Signs and waymarks The standard waymark of the Lycian Way: you'll see a lot of these. The Turkish Culture Routes Society maintains and supports the route and sells the official guidebook from its website. Also, think ahead carefully about what you will need and what you won't, as anything that is regarded as "trash" will need to be carried to the nearest garbage bin - a convenience even some of the mountain hamlets completely lack, let alone the trail itself. Therefore, following leave-no-trace guidelines is important. Once rubbish-strewn, it is very hard to clean the trail up, as it mostly lies in remote and rugged territory. The trail is mostly without litter, except for areas used by the Lycia Marathon which were not subsequently cleared. Some short sections of the trail near towns can be regarded as suitable for day walks. For many sites, it's the most convenient way to reach them, and for many others, they can be better appreciated by arriving over the original old road.Īlthough there are some trekkers who do the whole trail in one go, most people prefer to do it in sections some sections are inevitably more popular than others. It's not a single footpath that has been intact since times immemorial, rather it's a series of ancient paths, mule and caravan trails, forest and backcountry roads.
The Lycian Way connects a number of villages, mountain hamlets, Lycian and Roman sites on its route and ranges in elevation from 0m (sea level) to the 1,800m pass over Mt Tahtalı (one of the ancient Olympos'es ringing the Eastern Mediterranean). It was waymarked with the support of Garanti Bank and the permission of the Turkish Ministry of Culture in 1999. The route was researched by Kate Clow, a British expat living in Turkey, with the help of a few volunteers. Understand The lighthouse on the Cape Gelidonia, south of Olympos, one of the highlights of the trail The Lycian Way is a great way to get a sense of the true Turkish Mediterranean, away from crowded beaches, expensive resorts, and non-native palm trees. The Lycian Way (Turkish: Likya Yolu) is a 540-km, waymarked hiking trail in southwestern Turkey, connecting Fethiye in the west with the vicinity of Antalya (the village and climbing centre of Geyikbayırı up on the mountains, to be more precise) in the east along the Lycian coast. 4.6.1 Climbing down to Butterfly Valley.4.2.2 The route that leads straight to Ovacık.
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