Trek: Day 1

Uçan 1 waterfall

In the beginning: dry, clean, and (almost) smelling good.

The first waymark! (over an hour in hiking)

After a short trip to Cappadoccia we finally were ready to hit the trail. We spent all night getting to Antalya on the bus (11 hours) to find that the bus we were supposed to catch didn't exist, so we traveled by taxi and a few dolmush to finally get dropped off in a guy's driveway.

Fortunately the driveway was within a couple kilometers of where we were actually supposed to be so we finally ended up in the right river valley and started hiking. After an hour of hiking we finally came across our first waymark. These red and white stripes would come to be our best friend for the next week. We appologize to anyone now if we happen to exclaim any time we find a similar looking mark of paint, it's hard to break habits.

We only hiked a few hours the first day, because a dog adopted us for the last hour of our hike so we had to hike back and tie him up so we wouldn't have a permanent new companion. His owners didn't seem like the friendliest bunch so after a quick retreat we discreetly camped away from the trail, but still within hearing distance of the shotguns.