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Turkey Related Subjects => Places to Visit => Topic started by: Colwyn on October 01, 2014, 14:05:14 PM

Title: Sakar Tepe Breakfast
Post by: Colwyn on October 01, 2014, 14:05:14 PM

Sakar Tepe is the highest peak of a range of mountains that runs along the north side of the Gulf of Gokova from Akyaka to Bodrum. It is over 3000ft high. A friend who likes precision tells me it is 30ft taller than Snowdon. However, unlike Snowdon which attains its height gradually, standing on lower foothills, Sakar Tepe reaches its altitude in a sudden rush from the coast, via steep wooded slopes, then steeper scree slopes, and finally vertical cliffs.


(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Sakar01_zps7aa6f1ae.jpg)


From the top, on a clear day, you can see as far as Lake koycegiz in the east and the island of Kos in the west. So I'm told, but I've never been there on a clear day; there has always been a heat haze. The view remains impressive - both down to Akyaka and along the gulf.

(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Sakar02_zps52f20ffa.jpg)


(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Sakar03_zps432006eb.jpg)


A year or so ago a little cafe was built at the top so you can visit for breakfast. This is a fairly standard koy kahvalti, but that is not the main attraction.

(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Sakar04_zpse9f2aded.jpg)


(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Sakar05_zpse25fa9b6.jpg)

And then, when you've finished breakfast, you can just unpack your paraglider, take a running jump off the cliff top and sail gracefully down to the coast.

(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Sakar06_zps1304b89c.jpg)


(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Sakar07_zpsf56c5efb.jpg)


(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Sakar08_zpsd64fe485.jpg)


(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Sakar09_zps1120f6c7.jpg)

Title: Re: Sakar Tepe Breakfast
Post by: patrice on October 01, 2014, 18:19:56 PM

Great photo's  8)

Title: Re: Sakar Tepe Breakfast
Post by: Eric on October 01, 2014, 21:56:34 PM

Snowdon is actually 1,085 metres (3,560 ft).  Great pics though.

Title: Re: Sakar Tepe Breakfast
Post by: Somerset Simon on October 02, 2014, 05:59:46 AM

I never realised Snowdon was only half the height of Babadag - so it's only a hill in Wales!

Babadağ is a mountain near Fethiye, in Muğla Province, southwest Turkey. The mountain has a principal summit at an elevation of 1,969 metres and a second one called "Karatepe" at an elevation of 1,400 metres. Wikipedia

Title: Re: Sakar Tepe Breakfast
Post by: Colwyn on October 02, 2014, 09:59:52 AM

Thanks Eric. I shall take pleasure in presenting this to my friend next time I see him.