First on our agenda is to see the Sapadere Canyon and its waterfalls. The wooden walkway leads up the narrow canyon to the point of the largest waterfalls. As you walk back down, it is a series of much smaller waterfalls and babbling brooks of very clear water.
Scene near the parking lot.
You take this path way for a few minutes. It leads to the board walk and the booth where you pay the entrance fee.
The first thing I noticed was the drone hovering overhead. Maybe the attendant uses it to see when and how many people are heading up the path.
As at the Alanya castle, we are pretty much the only people here. There was one family of four ahead of us.
Turkish people love their signs. The warnings are for no smoking, hold on to your kids, no diving, don't litter, etc.
Now that we've paid, we are on the wooden boardwalk. Looks pretty easy - yes?
The scenes are below us - so beautiful.
Way up high above us the rock is no longer gray, but brown and almost yellow.
And more signs in case you have forgotten the rules, also includes no food or drinks and don't sit on the railing!
The canyon is pretty narrow.
One of the larger waterfall areas.
And finally we are at the end of the walkway with the largest waterfalls.
Changing shutter speed and aperture makes the water look different.
We then turn around and head back the way we came. We pass a few more people.
Michael in a haze.
There is one area, about a third of the way from the bottom that opens up into an area large enough for seating and a place where you can buy drinks and gozleme. She was making a cheese and herb gozleme so that is what we got.
Tea and snack.
She is prepared to make many many more. The list on the left lets you know your choice of fillings. I still want to try something other than the cheese and herb.
Our gozleme was served with olives, pickles and cherry jam. We did not try the jam.
A last glance behind us.
And we headed into the light and the parking lot.
The boardwalk up to the large falls started up pretty flat, but got steadily steeper. But none was that bad. If we had stopped at this point and called it a day all would have been fine. But we have another stop to make - on to the ancient city of Syedra. As we wind our way down the mountain, we pass many truckloads of young people. The backend is open and maybe has seats around the outside - but most of the people seem to be standing and waving with excitement. The attendant at the waterfalls will soon be very busy!
