A message from Hasan Arslan, from Middle Earth Travel which is our member. Last week we organized a 1 night camp for our Russian customers on Çukur Yayla, the green pasture between Yayla Kuzdere and the summit of Mount Olympos. I came over for this trip from our Cappadocia office and it was my first acquaintance…
Right after completing VOYN!’s online talk series, which aimed to raise an awareness for Antalya’a cultural and natural assets to be better known and protected, we organised two field trips. By organising these trips, we had the chance to strengthen our knowledge that we gained in the talk series, as well as to visit natural…
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…
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,…
CRS has been one of the three Antalya based organisations, which have applied to the ‘VAHA-Oasis: Building Common Ground for Spaces of Public Discussion & Dialogue’ programme with a project named ‘VOYN!’, which means ‘Hey!’ in local dialect of Antalya. A series of seminars and talks will be held and a cultural mapping of Antalya…