Trekking & Hiking Routes in Türkiye
Aegean Türkiye
As Türkiye’s third largest city, İzmir has always been an important port city throughout its 8,500-year history, thanks to the commercial and cultural exchange between it and the Aegean and Mediterranean ports situated on a peninsula...
Evliya Çelebi was an eminent Ottoman scholar who was born in the early 17th century and travelled extensively throughout Anatolia, Europe, and Egypt during his lifetime, compiling his observations in a 10-volume Travel Book.
Ida, or Kazdağı in Turkish as it is known today, is a place described by Homer in the epic Iliad as "the mother of wild animals with abundant springs", and is mentioned frequently throughout the epic.
Caria was the name given to today's Muğla and its environs between the 11th and 6th centuries BCE. For many years, the Ionians and Dorians inhabited this area, leaving behind many historical sites and a cultural heritage.
The largest lake in the Aegean Region, Bafa Lake, is located at the foot of the historical Latmos (today’s name: Beşparmak) Mountain and has a 50-kilometer coastline.
The ancient name for the region was Phrygia, and it included all of today's Afyonkarahisar, Ankara, and Eskişehir cities, as well as a substantial portion of Kütahya, and the northern parts of Konya, Isparta, and Burdur.
Bodrum is home to the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, which is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
At the easternmost of the Mediterranean, the southernmost of the Aegean Sea, at the junction point of Carian and Lycian Civilizations, here is a region where the deep history dance together with green and blue.
The district of Domaniç is named for its geographical location and landforms; the word refers to a protruding and bumpy hill or mountain.