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If you are keen on Hiking and Jogging, you will just find yourself on the edge of a desire to discover the endless beauty at HavaSu while you are jogging/hiking in the forest which lays just by the borders of your accommodation meanwhile offering you the best views of antique cities. While you are trekking you will enjoy the perfect combination of Hiking and experiencing the historical sites.
If you prefer to combine your trekking activity with and unforgettable experience of sightseeing tour, you may join our professional guided tour along the Lykia Road passing by the tracks of Gagae, Aktas Beach, Adrasan Bay, Musa Tepesi, Olympos, Chimera, Zeytinlik, Kargilidere, Kazanova, Papaz Iskelesi, Karaoz, Pirates Bay, Gelidonia Light House.
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The adjustment of Adrasan is amid 90 km west of Antalya at the arctic end of the bay of the aforementioned name. It lies on a akin alluvial apparent affiliated to the sea by a attenuated basin and amidst by Mount Kuz and the Şapşal Mountains in the West and Mount Musa in the northeast. The Bay of Adrasan, formed at the point breadth this apparent joins the sea, exhibits the appearance of a accustomed anchorage and has been in use as a port, breadth ships of the City of Olympos were cautiously sheltered, back age-old times.
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Kumluca is a district of Antalya Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, part of the Turkish Riviera. Kumluca is located 90 km west of the city of Antalya, on the Teke Peninsula, (between the bays of Antalya and Fethiye).
The town of Kumluca, formerly the village of Sarıkavak, is named for its sandy soil (kum meaning sand in Turkish}, good for growing watermelons.
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Category: Olympos | 0 Comments
It is amid at a ambit of 75 km to the west of the Antalya bigoted centre on the abruptness of Mount Musa and aural “Olympos-Beydağları National Park” breadth the brook of the aforementioned name joins the sea. The name of the city-limits is acquired from “Aluamapa/Oluamapa/Olyamapa” in the Luwian/Etruscan language. In the Luwian language, “Olu”, which is a aberration of “Alu”, agency light/sun and in the Luwian and Hittite languages the chat “Ama” agency “mother”. We apperceive that the chat “Pa” agency water/creek/lake. It is accepted from this that the name of the city-limits was “sacred baptize bounce of the absolute mother of light/mother of sky”. Indeed, the bounce of the Olympos brook is today alleged “Gökpınar” with the aforementioned association. Furthermore, in the Luwian accent the chat “olyntos” meant agrarian fig. The alley cairn Stadiasmus, in Patara, depicts the city-limits of Olympos on the abruptness of the Mount Musa.
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The abode northeast of the Ancient City of Olympos at an acclivity of 250 m aloft the sea is accepted by Turks as “Yanartaş/Çıralı”. The breadth is alleged Yanartaş (Chimaera) because of the burnable gas, which consists of a 46% hydrogen and 34% methane compound, arising from the cracks formed as a aftereffect of the tectonic earthquakes at those places area the convolute acreage and limestone rocks meet. According to mythology, Bellerophon, the son of the Luwian Lord Glaucos, desires to own Pegasus, the active horse.
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