Describe the Turkish Mediterranean and you describe always a landscape in which the mountains meet the sea. One hour by modern road, inland from the coast and you ascend to 1300 metres (4000 feet) and just ahead of you are mountains with an altitude of 3000 metres (10.000 feet). Below the tree-line, and the winter snow, are the yayla or highland plateaux (vast agricultural plains famous for their fruit and nut orchards). Falling away from them; canyons, gorges and passes, down which in Spring the melting snow rushes.
Many of these gorges were important trade routes, some still in use, some completely forgotten, though all at one time jealously guarded by ancient civilisations whose income was largely the tolls they charged for safe passage.
  

Akdag Hiking Country Ancient roads, some little more than goat paths with steps cut into the steep rock, abound, tracing the route through beautiful scenery, exotic wildlife and little known(if at all) watch towers, tombs and settlements. Nowadays Tourism is a professional discipline on the coast but just inland, rarely visited by the sun-seeking majority, travellers are welcomed with a genuine hospitality. Villagers who receive you into their homes are more than willing to share out not only their food but their mattresses and blankets as well... They do not necessarily expect anything in return: their philosophy inspired by the belief that visitors are sent by God, and thus merit care and charity, despite often having only a little to spare.

The scenery is dramatic: extensive pine and cedar forest, outcrops of juniper and plane and varied maquis are topped by the impressive Ak Mountains; snow-capped until June, thereafter turning a light red until the Autumn snow.
Until recently the tracks between villages were for donkeys and pack-animals and these tracks can still now be walked, describing meandering and varied terrain instead of the direct vehicle roads which replaced them. Whether your interests be in the steps of forgotten civilisations, the geography and nature of a beautiful land or the attraction of unspoilt village life this tour offers the opportunity to experience the diversity of Lycian Turkey. Staying in one ideally situated coastal hotel, there is an itinerary of excursions into the surrounding hills. There are many alternatives to our set programme including local walks and boat trips.

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