Sapadere Kanyonu
10. 5. 2019
Lara, Vika, Peter Schrammel
Weather
sunny
Interest 
***: thunderous waters during snowmelt
Route
Sapadere Kanyonu car park, 360m - Sapadere Kanyonu waterfall, 470m - car park
Elevation gain
110m
Distance
2km
Timing
2/3h (1/3 + 1/3)
Stamina
A
Difficulty
0: wheelchair-accessible
Danger
2: broad wooden paths in the canyon; slipping into the water can be deadly, though
Visitor frequency
d: the safari jeeps arrived just before us
Comments
Entry fee 10TL
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After our visit to Dim Mağarası, a limestone cave in the Dim valley, we continued the excursion into the Sapadere valley. It took quite a while to get there because Safari Jeeps were in front of us and stopped many times to take pictures while blocking the road. Finally we reached the parking next to the artifically created ponds with turquoise water. After paying the entrance fee, a paved road gently climbed to the beginning of the canyon with its impressive entrance of limestone cliffs towering into the sky. We followed the path on wooden bridges often above the waters that splash down over several small waterfalls and deep pools in between. At the end of the path there is a bigger waterfall. This time with much more water and deafening noise. After taking some pictures we walked down and drove back to jump into the still quite cold sea.
The path through the canyon
Path across the wild waters
Cascades and pools
Approaching the big waterfall at the end of the path
The big waterfall