Tekirova, located at 17 km south of Kemer is very well known holiday destination with the orange groves and beautiful virgin bays facing three islands. This district is an excellent diving spot with different virgin bays offering marvelous panoramas of Tahtali mountain. It is also closest district to the ancient site city of Phaselis.
Beycik is a charming mountain village located at 23 km of Kemer with magnificentviews to the mountain and the Mediterranean sea and the three islands. Beycik is around 1000 meter above the sea level that is why most this area is prefered by many European citiziens due to low humidity. Beycik is also in a central position within the famous archeological sites such as Olympos, Phaselis, Adrasan and Chimera. Beycik is at the same time a cosy village overlooking the ski center at the Mount Tahtali.
More information about Tekirova:
• Distance from Tekirova to Kemer is 17 km.
• Distance from Tekirova to Airport is 69 km.
• Distance from Tekirova to Antalya is 59 km.
• Unspoiled excellent landscape and nature.
• Blue Flag and awarded beaches ( worldwide).
• Natural beauty with orange, lemon groves, pine forests.
• At 500 meters level at the National Park of the Taurus mountains.
• Residential area with low building permit.
• Two fully equipped hospitals in Kemer -17 km from Tekirova and Beycik.
• One government hospital in Kemer -17 km from tekirova and Kiris.
• Two private school with high level education in Kemer-17 km from Tekirova and Beycik.
• Many sports activities such as trekking, rock climbing, jeep safari, horse riding, skiing, scuba diving, yacth tours.
• Restaurants, bars, discos.
• Open market facilities once a week and shopping facilities.
• Excellent opportunity for property investment with high capital return! Properties for sale in Tekirova Beycik starts from 60.000 Euro.
Cirali is an agricultural village in the southwest of Turkey in Antalya Province. It is close to ancient ruins of Olympos and Chimaera permanent gas vents.
It is a very small rural village located just over an hours drive southwest from Antalya and boasts a beautiful 3.5 km secluded beach, the ruins of Olympos, the flames of the Chimaera / Yanarta?, as well as being a protected area by the WWF for the nesting of the Caretta or also known as the Loggerhead Sea Turtles.
Also nearby to Cirali is the Ulup?nar region, which is rich in rivers and creeks. Cirali is one of the last unspoilt natural areas along the Antalya coastline.
For the intrepid trekkers highlights of the Lycian Way with hidden paths are also found in Cirali. One from Cirali to Tekirova ( 19 km ) and another travels from Cirali to Ulupinar and then back down to the flames of the Chimaera which is around 12 km. All these trails and paths are clearly marked in Red and White.
Another wonderful section of the Lycian Way ( Likya Yolu ) near to Cirali is to the summit of Tahtali Dag or as also know as Mt. Olympos . Located in the National Park of Olympos or Olimpos Bey Mountain Parks.
There are no large hotels but numerous small places with accommodation, e.g., family run pensions.
Although close to Olympos it is not possible to drive between the road of Cirali and the road to Olympos since they are separated by the beach and the ruins of Olympos.
Yanartas is the name of a geographical feature near Olympos valley and national park in Antalya Province in southwestern Turkey, at a distance of about forty kilometers to the southwest from the city of Antalya, between the district center of Kemer and the township of Beldibi, near present Tekirova.
It is characterized by a permanent fire caused by methane emissions and the area is located on a track popular with hikers and trekkers on the Lycian Way.
Some sources state that this geothermically active region was the inspiration for the myth Ctesias. This was the citation given by Pliny the Elder, who in his second book of Historia Naturalis identified the Chimaera with the permanent gas vents in Mount Chimera, in the country of the ancient Lycian city of Phaselis, which he described as being "on fire", adding "...indeed burned with a flame that does not die by day or night". Pliny was quoted by Photius and Agricola, although the exact location of the mountain described by Strabo is still open to debate.
Called in Turkish Yanartas (flaming rock), the spot consists of some two dozen vents in the ground, grouped in two patches on the hillside above the Temple of Hephaistos about 3 km north of the village of Cirali, near ancient Olympos, in Lycia. The vents emit methane thought to be of metamorphic origin, which can spontaneously ignite. In ancient times sailors could navigate by the flames, but today they are more often used to brew tea, the flames being of little use for navigation now.
Strabo and Pliny are the only surviving ancient sources who would be expected to discuss a Lycian toponym, but the placename is also attested by Isidore of Seville and Servius, the commentator on the Aeneid. Strabo held the Chimaera to be a ravine on a different mountain in Lycia, placing it unhesitatingly in the vicinity of the Cragus Mountains, southern part of the present Babadag, some 75 km. due west as the crow flies, and Isidore quotes writers on natural history (see below) that Mount Chimaera was on fire here, had lions and goats there, and was full of snakes over there. Servius goes so far as to arrange these with the lions on the peak of the mountain, pastures full of goats in the middle, and serpents all about the base, thus imitating Homer s description of the monster.
The site was identified by Sir Francis Beaufort in 1811, and described by T.A.B.Spratt in his Travels in Lycia, Milyas, and the Cibyratis, in company with the late Rev. E. T. Daniell. The discussion on the connection between the myth and the exact location of Chimera was started by Forbiger in 1844, and the George E. Bean was of the opinion that the name was allochtonous and could have been transferred here from its original location further west, as cited by Strabo, owing to the presence of the same phenomenon and the fires.
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For more information about Tekirova we recommend the following sources:
Wikipedia, Tekirova
DMOZ, Links over Tekirova
