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
Life in the hills has its compensations. Though it is still frustrating not being able to move as freely as before, our surrounding area just happens to be one of the most diverse parts of Turkey. There are over 600 endemic plants in the south-west Taurus. The enforced restrictions mean we can focus once again…
Author: Mikael Persson Photo: Jonas Gratzer Our profile on Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/vagabond.se/ Below is a nice piece about the Lycian Way in a Swedish magazine. The English text is at the end of the page! The Lycian Way Definitely the smell of smoke! whispers my nostrils. Absolutely life! answers my brain puzzled. Together with…
The first Scientific/Academic Committee Meeting of the Via Eurasia cultural route took place on December 20th 2019 at the Applied Tourism Administration and Research Center (ATARC) of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. Although this was the first time all the potential committee members met, the head of the management committee and the Turkish Project coordinator had…
Alexandra Paulus In mid-April 2019, my husband and I, both from Germany, but currently living in Ankara, walked from Fethiye to Kabak Beach and then a little beyond. Our dog Zeytin (Turkish for olive since, when we met her, she was small and black) came along, of course. We adopted her from a tiny mountain…
Action Name: ‘Italy, Greece and Turkey on Foot: A European Culture Route Linking Turkey to Italy’ The 9th Annual Advisory Forum of the Council of Europe took place between 1-4 October in Sibiu, Romania. The forum ‘enables the reunion of member states representatives, Cultural Routes operators, candidate networks to the certification “Cultural Route of the…
Each year towards the end of September or start of October, a Cultural Routes Annual Advisory Forum is organised in collaboration with one of the member States of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes. The Annual Advisory Forum enables the reunion of member States representatives, Cultural Routes operators, candidate networks to the certification “Cultural Route of…
April fifteenth. I was late. Turn back home, and pick up the sleeping bag of yours that you have forgotten. Soggy feet under the spring rain, not very friendly one, it gets pretty brutal in Antalya. Walking little bit down from The Hadrian’s, make left, and then right at the second alley. There! The big…
Our team of four, consisting of us Aussie volunteers (Callum and I), Onat and Culture Routes Society’s newest member Esra, recently set out for an adventure along the Phrygian Way. Our goal was to take footage of the trail, capturing its beauty, and put together a film for those who haven’t yet had the pleasure…