Exploring Saklikent Gorge

Don and Geralynn are getting ready to go under the car bridge and enter into the Saklikent Gorge. We paid a 3 Lira admission fee to enter. We then headed back to explore the canyon, Tom & Val said the canyon was well worth a look. We had hiked the Xanthos ruins earlier in the day and were heading to the "Myra" ruins later so this was a nice break from the ruins. As you can see the weather is perfect.
This is just as you actually enter the gorge, it reminds me so much of many of our national parks in the southwest.

Don & Geralynn checking out the view, holding on to the handrail.

The water is running very swiftly through the canyon , it enters the main stream from more than one point in the hillside. The water is just working it's way down from the high Tarus Mountain Range behind this gorge. The water is from the winter snow pack which is now melting. It was very loud as it rushed it's way through the canyon. On the entrance side from where we entered the gorge, the gorge actually ends and it turns into a nice river. Looked like the locals come there and really enjoy the cool water in the summer time. There were areas that looked like a sultan would sit and drink tea and the dancing girls would entertain him. Probably no dancing girls but lots of tea.

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