trails

Tuz Golu, Turkey’s great Salt Lake, may not look like a hiker’s destination at first glance, but its vast white flats and the open steppe around them offer a walking experience you will find nowhere else.

Lake Van’s shoreline and the mountains that surround it offer some of the most rewarding hiking in eastern Turkey.

The Kackar Mountains are the trekking capital of Turkey, a range of peaks, lakes, and high pastures crossed by some of the finest walking routes in the country.

Saklikent Gorge is famous for its canyon, but the walking around it is one of the hidden pleasures of the Turkish southwest.

Butterfly Valley is famous for its beach, its moths, and its cliffs, but the hiking around it is one of the great walking experiences of the Turkish coast.

Hiking around Mount Ararat is a wilderness experience unlike anything else in Turkey.

Most visitors see the fairy chimneys from a bus window or a balloon basket, but the people who really know Cappadocia see them from the trails.

Pamukkale is famous for its terraces, but the surrounding landscape holds some of the region’s best walking, from the ancient streets of Hierapolis to the paths that cross the plateau above the white pools.