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Who are we?

ornament1We are a small Turkish not-for-profit society. Our members make and maintain long distance walking, biking and horse-riding routes. The society protects old roads, markets Turkish culture routes and helps villagers along the routes benefit from them.

Committee and members

ornament1Our committee includes the creators of the finest walking routes in Turkey. Our members include trekking guides, travel agencies, accommodation providers, archaeologists, historians, nature-lovers and people interested in Turkish village culture.

Products and services

ornament1To help you use our routes, we produce and sell guide-books, maps and iphone apps. We also list all our member agencies tours on the site (see tours) and will advise you about your adventure by mail, by phone or at our drop-in centre in Antalya .

Practical way to help

ornament1The society relies on help from enthusiastic volunteers either with individual projects or in our office. Read more about our how you can help. If you like our work and want to contribute, you can become a member or make a donation.

News

As MitOst we joined our hands with several Tandem Turkey and Tandem Western Balkans alumni organisation and artists to collaborate on a 1-year project Performative Journey on the Via Eurasia Cultural Route.    When we have been implementing the Tandem programme open for cultural managers and their organisation for collaborations between Turkey and Europe, it…

Not a week goes by without another hiking route coming into being, and every new route that is opened offers varied and exciting opportunities for hiking/trekking lovers. As a hiking volunteer who stays in Çanakkale-Eceabat Seddülbahir village in the summertime and as being a member of the Culture Routes Society at the same time, I…

trekking  Phrygian Way

Academic Study Phrygian Way: There is little to no Academic studies on cultural routes in Turkey. As tourism literature is my field of study, I’ve tried to map the demographics and feedback of those who walked the Phrygian Way in my master thesis that I completed in 2019. I want to share the findings of…

I continue to work on cultural routes not only in the field but also in the academia. I have prepared resources for both tourist guides to specialize in this field and for guide candidates to have information about cultural routes. In addition, there are many academic papers related to cultural routes in the world  very…

After a very wet weekend cycling along the stormy coast to Antalya, I joined the Culture Routes Society team to volunteer and help out with some exciting fieldwork in the Muğla region. As the weather cleared, Onat and I drove from the office in Antalya to the first site near the village of Dodurga. After…

It is important to check the weather conditions on the trails. It is necessary to know the rain situation beforehand in order to ensure safety, especially at canyon crossings. For this, we would like to share the www.yr.no  with you. Although it has a Norwegian page, it offers good weather forecasts in the country. There…

Maintenance and update works of the Via Eurasia continue on the St. Paul Trail section. An alternative route was added to the Barla – Dikmen Farm section durinh the field surveys we conducted within the borders of Eğirdir in the first week of November 2020. Balkırı – Akpınar route, which was in a bad condition…

The weather is hot; oh so hot! And so humid. Everything is as so new to me, especially this weather that welcomed me as soon as I got off the plane. And, like every new thing, it is very exciting, too. After surviving the heat of the first night in the crowded centre of Antalya,…

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