15 DAYS LYCIAN WAY  ·  FROM ANTALYA TO KAŞ

DAY 2   Hisarçandır → Göynük

A transfer from Antalya (about 1 hr 15 mins) drops you at the start of the Hisarçandır traverse, and the walking begins under pine and cedar almost immediately. Turn around occasionally and you’ll catch Antalya and the Taurus range receding behind you.

The trail spends most of the day losing height, working steadily down toward the floor of Göynük Canyon, and a short transfer from the canyon bottom covers the last stretch to your pension.

  Accommodation:  Pension — dinner included

DAY 3   Göynük → Göynük Yayla

A short transfer gets you to the mouth of Göynük Canyon, and from there the trail climbs the gorge along a series of switchback ridges under pine, with pastures and orchards opening below as you gain height.

Where the river forms a pool near the lunch stop, take the swim if the weather’s right — it’s one of the better-earned dips on the whole route. Your vehicle meets you near a bridge at around 850m and runs you on to Ovacık.

  Accommodation:  Hotel, Ovacık — dinner included

DAY 4   Göynük Yayla → Yayla Kuzdere

A transfer returns you to where yesterday’s walk finished. The route toward Gedelme passes the remains of a Roman castle — worth a proper look, not just a photo stop — before climbing on to the mountain village of Yayla Kuzdere, sitting at around 900m.

It’s a quieter overnight than the last two, with dinner in a family-run village house rather than a hotel dining room.

  Accommodation:  Village house, Yayla Kuzdere — dinner included

DAY 5   Yayla Kuzdere → Beycik

The hardest walking day on the itinerary, and also the best. A steady climb up a streambed brings you to the pastures of Çukur Yayla, right beneath Mount Olympos (Tahtalı Dağı), and from there you take the pass itself at 1950m, moving through pine forest and some genuinely impressive stands of old cedar.

The descent to Beycik, at roughly 900m, follows a winding mule path used by shepherds for generations; a transfer vehicle meets you there and carries you on to your pension.

  Accommodation:  Pension — dinner included

DAY 6   Ulupınar → Olympos & Chimaera (Yanartaş)

A slower day, and a good one to have mid-trip. After breakfast, an optional walk out to the ruins of ancient Olympos, roughly 6km along the beach. The city takes its name from its view of Mount Olympos and grew up where a wide river meets the sea, backed by a long stretch of sand. It was a pirate hideout once, and tombs, temples, churches, and palaces still sit half-swallowed by vegetation among the ruins.

Lunch is followed by free time until dinner — swim, doze on the beach, or arrange a sea kayak if you’d rather keep moving. After dark, a short night walk takes you up to see the Chimaera at Yanartaş, where flames burn continuously out of the bare rock from gas seeping up through the ground — genuinely strange to stand next to, and much better appreciated at night than by day.

  Accommodation:  Pension — dinner included

DAY 7   Çıralı → Adrasan

Straight out of the pension, the route runs through the ancient city of Olympos before climbing Musa Dağı — Moses Mountain — to about 650m. The climb is real, through dense forest scattered with strawberry trees and past a scatter of minor ruins nobody bothers to fence off.

After a picnic lunch near an old hut, the trail descends through forest and past abandoned farmhouses down into the beautiful bay at Adrasan, where a proper hotel bed and a swim are both waiting.

  Accommodation:  Hotel, Adrasan — dinner included

DAY 8   Adrasan → Cape Gelidonya Lighthouse

The longest day on the trail, and the most isolated. Leaving the hotel, the path heads south via Kızıl Sırt (450m) along a coastline that feels genuinely cut off from everything — for long stretches it’s just cliffs, green slopes, and views out to scattered islands, with the sea a long way below.

The lighthouse at Cape Gelidonya (200m), right at the tip of the cape, marks the turning point; from there a dirt road drops you down to your guesthouse in Karaöz.

  Accommodation:  Guesthouse, Karaöz — dinner included

DAY 9   Cultural Sightseeing Day

A day off your feet, more or less, and a chance to take in some of the ancient sites that the trail itself walks past without stopping for. You’ll visit Rhodiapolis, Limyra, and Arykanda before driving to Demre to see Myra — its cliff face honeycombed with Lycian rock-cut tombs above a Roman theatre — and the old port of Andriake.

It’s a lot of history in one day; a good pair of sunglasses and a bottle of water will serve you better than hiking boots.

  Accommodation:  Guesthouse, Karaöz (return)

DAY 10   Çayağzı → Simena via Kapaklı

Starting from Çayağzı, the walk heads to Kapaklı, where you rejoin the Lycian Way proper, then follows sheltered coves and rocky inlets on to Simena — also known as Kale. You enter the village beside its crusader castle, built over the remains of a necropolis scattered with sarcophagi and rock-cut tombs, with views opening out across the water to Kekova.

Your pension sits right on the shore, and the view across the bay from the terrace is one you’ll want to sit with for a while before dinner.

  Accommodation:  Pension — dinner included

DAY 11   Kılıçlı (Apollonia) → Aperlai & Kekova Cruise

A transfer by boat and car takes you to Kılıçlı, where you climb the acropolis of the ancient Lycian city of Apollonia. From there, old mule paths lead down to the seaside ruins of Aperlai, once a working harbour town that shipped purple dye — extracted from sea shells — out to the wider Roman world.

After a short coastal walk, a boat picks you up for a cruise over Kekova’s Sunken City on the way back to Simena. Expect a swim in properly clear water and a barbecue lunch on deck as you pass over submerged house foundations and old harbour walls.

  Accommodation:  Same pension — dinner included

DAY 12   Apollonia → Ökçüoldüğü via Boğazcık

A transfer takes you to Boğazcık, and the walk from there passes Ottoman cisterns and Roman watchtowers on the way down to the beach.

After a swim, the trail follows the rocky coastline on to the hamlet of Ökçüoldüğü, where a short transfer (about 30 minutes) delivers you into Kaş — noticeably livelier than anywhere you’ve stayed so far, with a proper choice of restaurants for the evening.

  Accommodation:  Hotel, Kaş — dinner in a local restaurant

DAY 13   Ökçüoldüğü → Limanağzı / Kaş

A transfer back to Üzüm İskelesi sets up a short, easy walk along coastal paths, with plenty of chances to swim on the way. Lunch is at a restaurant in Limanağzı, where the walking finishes for the day, and after some free time a ferry carries you across to the harbour town of Kaş.

Dinner isn’t included tonight, which is a good excuse to pick your own spot along the harbour.

  Accommodation:  Same hotel, Kaş — dinner not included

DAY 14   Free Day in Kaş

A day entirely your own, and Kaş gives you plenty of ways to fill it — swim off the rocks, book a dive, try canoeing or paragliding, or just work through the shops and cafés at no particular pace.

In the evening, a farewell dinner at a local restaurant rounds off the trip properly before tomorrow’s transfer home.

  Accommodation:  Hotel, Kaş

DAY 15   Departure

A transfer from Kaş to Antalya Airport, or on to Dalaman if that’s your flight, brings the trip to a close. Fourteen nights of canyons, cedar forest, ruins, and coastline — the red-and-white waymarks will stick with you longer than you’d expect.

  Accommodation:  Program ends — no overnight (departure transfer)

* Airport Transfers – * Luggage Transfer

* Entrance Fees – * Trekking Guidance