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What a day. I just don’t know how to describe it. In every way it nearly beat me and I have no idea how it didn’t. We started the day with none of our washing dry so had to pack wet clothes into the suitcase hoping we can get things dry tonight. Breakfast was okayContinue reading “Day 22. Can it get any tougher?”

As we were well on the eastern side of Cirali it was easier to continue on the road out of town and cut north across to the trail rather than double back into town. The first part of the trail was on an easy paved road to Chimaera which is the burning mountain. Once againContinue reading “Day 21. The hare and the tortoise”

The walk out of Adrasan was a double back on the way we had entered the town, along the long beach and passed the river restaurants. We noticed that the tourist boats that had anchored along the shore had gone except for one which was trying to load a few guests in very windy conditions.Continue reading “Day 20 last day on the coast”

The walk out of Adrasan was a double back on the way we had entered the town, along the long beach and passed the river restaurants. We noticed that the tourist boats that had anchored along the shore had gone except for one which was trying to load a few guests in very windy conditions.Continue reading “Day 20 last day on the coast”

It was a long day scheduled for the walk from Finike to Karaoz but the first 10-12 kms was on a footpath alongside a 4 lane highway. Ramazan suggested that he drive us to where the trail left the highway and he didn’t need to ask me twice. He dropped us off and the restContinue reading “Days 18 & 19 A couple of days on flatter surface”

It was time to tackle part of the mountain, and we decided to take on some of the downhill. Ramazan drove us up the mountain to Belos, but first it was a stop at the bakers and two huge sacks of bread was loaded into the car and then we were off on a terrifyingContinue reading “Day 17 you have to go up to come down.”

Having given up the mountain walk we decided to take a short walk out to the local ruins. There are a few walkers in our guesthouse and one had recommend we talk the walk. We also needed to get a few kms in the legs to keep them going as we have some long daysContinue reading “Day 16. A short lazy day”