Fethiye Alternative Trails

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Fethiye

Fethiye, the former Lycian city of Telmessos, is on a circular bay below the peak of Babadağ. Between, scented pine-forest clothes the slopes; ancient graves and ruins are hidden on rocky hillsides or olive-groves. Each year, thousands of visitors stay mainly in Ölüdeniz, where hang gliders soar from the summit and land in the soft sand. The interior, where nomads still take their goats to summer pastures high in the mountains, is little-visited except by trekkers along Turkey’s first long-distance walking route, the Lycian Way.

Fethiye Alternative Trails

Fethiye Chamber of Commerce and Industry has developed 343 km of easy and medium day-hikes, way-marked in red-yellow. Most are connected to and signed from the Lycian Way. The Fethiye trails are designed to enable families and less-experienced walkers to enjoy vast vistas over the sea, sailboats and islands, or to try a path before starting the Lycian Way. Using public transport and locally-organised transfers, you can do day-walks while based in a comfortable hotel. The trails are best – February – June or September – November.