Day 17. Cirali to Beycik

Yet another tough but spectacular walk today.

Mostly mountain climbing. We were joined by Nikki from New Zealand and Michal from Southern California. The walk started out as a gentle ascent.

 Our first landmark was The Eternal flames.

Apparently they have been burning for over 2000 years. 

We did a lot of climbing (of course).

There were wild cyclamen.

A fantastic lunch in a stream where trout is farmed.

And then we got lost for a couple of hours.

Amazingly we found the Lycian way again and made it to Beycik at 7pm. 

There were views of the mountains.

The owner of our pansysion was driving around looking for us at this time. It was a total of 21.2k in a total of 5 hours 45 mins. We're at 2,500 feet after starting out at sea level. 

Spent the evening debating whether and how to climb the summit of mount Tatahli  tm ( highest no brain in Turkey) with Michal and Nikki. It will be a game time decision tm at breakfast.