Saklıkent ("hidden city") Gorge is 50 km from Fethiye. The Gorge is 300m deep and 18 km long. It is one of the deepest in the world, and is a result of abrasion of the rocks by flowing waters over thousands of years.
Around 4 km of the gorge is walkable after April - by that time most of the snow from the Taurus Mountains has melted and passed through the gorge on its way to the Xanthos River
On our tour we lunched at Yakapark Trout Farm
You can see trout leaping out of the water
We then visited the ruins at Tlos - one of the six principal cities of Lycia (and one of the most powerful). Tlos - with its Acropolis hill - once bore the title under the Roman empire of 'the very brilliant metropolis of the Lycian nation'.
It is one of the oldest and largest settlements of Lycia (known as 'Tlawa' in Lycian inscriptions) and was eventually inhabited by Ottoman Turks, one of the few Lycian cities to continue it existance through the 19th century
The influence of many cultures upon Tlos has resulted in a patchwork of structures dominated by an acropolis and fortress. On the slopes leading up to the acropolis are numerous Lycian sarcophagi and many house- and temple-type tombs cut into the face of the hill.
There are also remains of an amphitheatre and an arena
The views of the surrounding area are superb
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