Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Turkey's Lycian Way

I have several friends and acquaintances who have transversed Turkey's Lycian Way. One of my friends, who is an amateur entomologist, spent a summer collecting insects along the trail and even discovered a new specie of ground beetle. But what caught my attention was the fact that The Sunday Times has listed the Lycian Way as one of the top ten walks in the world.


The Lycian Way is 500 km hiking trail which stretches from Fethiye to Antalya, around part of the coast of ancient Lycia. Let me think about this. I can wander along territory which was once the Lycian League -- the cities of Xanthos, Patara, Myra, Pinara, Tlos and Olympos and Phaselis?


Okay. The Lycian Way is now on my "to do list."