KÖPRÜLÜ NATIONAL PARK - SELGE

Fifty-three miles from Aspendos. For nature lovers with a means of transport, the excursion to the Köprülü National Park is an idea. You drive 43.5 km on the narrow road through dense pine forests dotted with waterfalls following the river. This one passes in front of the two guesthouses restaurants of the area: Selge and Kanyon (by the river, on a tree trunk, to eat trout). The river leads to the campsites: Medraft and Öncü. It reaches the entrance of the canyon and the Roman bridge of the 2nd century AD, and Oluk Köprü on the Köprü Çay River which descends from the Taurus and travels 120 km to reach the Mediterranean Sea. These establishments offer rafting for those who have not purchased a Side or Antalya trip.

Continuing this path to Altınkaya (1,000 m). The higher you climb, the wilder the landscape becomes with beautiful views of the Dedegöl mountains (3,000 m), up to the village of Altınkaya or Zerk (13 km from the bridge). Near the bridge, the ruins of Selge (paying), a city with a dark history, inhabited until the beginning of the Byzantine era. You can distinguish the agora with a 3-storey building, 2 temples (one attributed to Zeus, the other to Artemis), the stadium and an impressive 9,500-seat theatre, partly carved out of rock.

The villagers offer to guide you on mountain hikes: one of them lasts 4 hours and reaches the canyon, the others last several days to the surrounding mountains.