About
Who are we?
We 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
Our 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
To 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
The 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
I’m a friend of Ueli Aellig from Switzerland and a fellow teacher at a Business School here in Winterthur. Ueli has passed away on October 6th after a short time in the Alzheimer section of an Old Folks Home. Remembering him in a ceremony on November 15th I will tell the people about the great time…
Our member Serkan Taycan has recently prepared a project on the water buffalos which can be found along his route – Between Two Seas. Highly prized for their rich cream, these buffalos love wallowing in wet meadows and pools. In the north of Turkey, they are harnessed and used to pull heavy logs out of…
Having spent a few days in Albania working on the Performative Journey project, Kate and Hüseyin set off to follow the Via Egnatia (VE). Walking from the village of Mirake, we soon found the section of the VE illustrated on Holger and Marietta’s excellent guidebook. We were surprised at how much of the original route…
The Fethiye Times recently published a report (link) on proposed quarries close to the village of Sidyma, on the Lycian Way. Villagers have started to sell land at Alınca and Gey and new house-building is underway. Seydikemer forestry department’s proposed road to Cennet Plaj (Paradise Beach), but was stopped because it threatened the historical road…
A new meeting point for outdoor lovers has opened its doors in Göreme, Cappadocia. Housed in the office building of Middle Earth Travel it is a good spot to meet like-minded people who love to explore the valleys of Cappadocia on foot or by bike. Atıl: “I am a real coffee addict and I search…
As the whole world knows, the G7 summit of leaders of the world’s 7 capitalist countries took place in Cornwall, in the UK in June. To complement this, and remind the world of the importance of trails, the World Trails Network partnered with the Southwest Coastal Trail to hold a short on-line conference about the…
In June 2021, Nick Hobbs and a small team (Oytun, Tasha, Fatemah) from Hiking Istanbul explored a route crossing the area between Şile and Yağcılar (north-south) in order to find a route which could complete this segment of the Via Eurasia. This supplements a route from Anadolu Kavağı to Şile, and together these routes will…
This 3-day route is a variation of the Lycian Way, but can also be used with the Lycian Way as a 4 day circular tour of Tahtalı. It runs through high level forest, mainly on mountain trails, passing Laodicia ancient site and passing through some magnificent scenery. It is suitable for strong walkers and the…