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Please check local regulations for: Olimpos Beydağları Millî Parkı

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1. Chimera (Yanartaş) – Yanartaş (Chimaera) loop from Çıralı

10.7km

03:21

360m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Ancient City of Olympos – Chimera (Yanartaş) loop from Olimpos

16.8km

05:01

470m

Expert hike. Very good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Chimera (Yanartaş) – Yanartaş (Chimaera) loop from Çıralı

7.49km

02:26

300m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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SunnyKay☀️🚴‍♀️🐾

February 8, 2017

Flames have been burning from the rocks for centuries. The flames are created by combustion of gases that escape from small openings. Really impressive!

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Thomas

October 27, 2017

Geography in the middle of nature.

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Albrecht

November 3, 2018

A beautiful, well-developed hiking trail with large steps leads to the lower flames of the Chimera. It is here a gas mixture with about 11 percent methane content, which emerges from small openings in metamorphic rock that has been burning for millennia. Two thousand years ago athletes from Olympus lit their torches here and carried the fire down to the valley and opened the first Olympic Games in Anatolia.

A much narrower and even steeper trail leads up to the upper flames of Chimera, which are smaller and less spectacular. But it is less crowded up there and you have a great view.

The trail is part of the Lycian Way, so to do this part you have to pay 7TL for visiting this once holy place.

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Distance 843 m

Downhill 170 m

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Chimera Eternal Flames

1. Chimera (Yanartaş) – Yanartaş (Chimaera) loop from Çıralı

2. Ancient City of Olympos – Chimera (Yanartaş) loop from Olimpos

3. Chimera (Yanartaş) – Yanartaş (Chimaera) loop from Çıralı

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