Natural Beauty

YANARTAŞ (CHİMAERA )

Yanartaş(Chimarea) stands on  the slopes of the Cirali Olympos Beach ,about at a 300m height.At Chimarea which was a Likya city,there is a fire burning since the old ages of antique times and it  occures from the burning of the gas coming up to the surface. The fire which was  stronger before converted to  many small fires. Its more effective to watch the fires when its dark than the daylight. By walking 20m from the Ören Place its possible to reach this area.


Upon the time there had been a  legendary nice guy Bellerophontes, living in Argos,Greek. Since he was desiring the flying horse Pegasus ,he had run after it many days but he couldnt. One day in his dream the Gods had told him how to catch the horse. And like they had told him,he cought the horse while it was drinking with the golden bit. One day Bellerophontes kills someone by mistake and leaves Argos and took refuge in the Tıryns King’s Palace. Then the  Queen fells in love with the guy in a very short time. She asks him for a relation. But Bellerophontes refuses her offer since he is a guest and doesnt want to betray the owner of the palace. After this the Queen wants to take a revenge by lying the King with telling that he wanted have her. The King gets annoyed but doesnt want to kill him and sends him to his father-in-law with a letter. Bellerophontes reaches Lykia.The King meets him near the Xanthos river and hosts him 9days. On the 9th day he opens the letter and understand that he has to be killed. But he can’t do this and wants Khimaira to do this. Khimaira is a creative which is in front a lion and in back is snake and has a  body as a goat and sprays flames from its mouth. Bellerophontes with the Gods’ wishes and help of Pegasos kills the Khimaira. As far as the King gives Bellerophontes very very hard stuff to do ,he could succeed all of them . After this the King believes that he has came from a God Race and he gives his daughter him as a wife with many gifts beside. Bellerophontes comes from the Poseidon Race .

From this marrige they had three children.Daughter Laodameia had relation with Zeus and Sarpedon takes birth from this and becomes the King of Lykia when he grows up.Then he enters the Troya Battle. There he gets angry to people escaping from the battle and says that he had came from a far way to fight and he has been killed by Patroklos who was fighting with Akhilleus weapons. Before he gives his last breath he gives his place to Glaukos and then he dies.Zeus orders Apollon to bring his son’s death to Lykia. Chimarea who has taken birth from the relation of underground creatives Typon and Ekhidna ,used to live in the mountain called Cirali  and Yanartaş and can be seen from Olympos.  When Bellerophontes has killed the Chimarea,it was still spraying flames from its mouth while giving the last breath…!! How many times in a life u can have the chance to visit such a legendary place,ask yourself please..!

  • PHASELİS
  • Phaselis which is in Tekirova ,is 27km away from Cirali and stands on the foot of Tahtalı Mountain 15km South of Kemer.
  • The city was built in B.C. VII.century by the Rodos people. For a long period it was LIKYA’s most important harbour.Phaselis has three harbours.North port,Battle port or Protected port and the Sun port.Most important one is on the South. On the middle of the city there is 25m wide and 200m long road. On the South end of this road there is the Hadrian Water Way Door. On both sides of the road there are walking ways and shops. And other things are Bath,Agora and Theater for public usage. It is said that those building were used until the  I.and II.centuries B.C. Between the city center and the settlement place located on the 70m heigh plateau ,there are water pipelines
  • OLYMPOS
  • Olympos which is Antique Likya’s one of most important harbours , was a subject to Mitoloji during the history.At those times because of its suitability Olympos  was Pirates’ settlement.Today with the historical values,3200m long wonderful beach,Endemik Plants,Caretta Carettas and Chimaira and the nature which let to do all kinds of sports ,Olympos is known in all over the world

  • Antique Olmpos was built in the Helenistik Period. Hamam(bath),Agora,Mabed Kapısı(Temple Door),Theater are the places could stand on until today. . B.C.100 it was a leading city and had 3voting right which made it one of six cities..B.C. 1.century the pirates haunted the city and the place became their house..Later Servilius Isaurieus  the commander of Roma,had banished the pirates and cleaned the city and added to Roma’s soils.The Ironmonger God Statue in Cirali has a big fame as well.Although the city was so rich and in comfort,because of the pirates’ attackes the city became so poor and had to keep on poor by the time