Arycanda

On our way back to Kalkan from Çıralı we took a detour into the mountains to visit the ancient Lycian city of Arycanda, built on several terraces at the top of a very picturesque valley. We arrived to find no one in the ticket booth and no other cars. With no site map, we explored the site with the help of our George Bean book, published 50 years ago. Some further restoration work has taken place in the intervening years, particularly the theatre, but otherwise the site remains very much the same.