Köyceğiz, Ortaca, Dalaman

Sweetgum Route

A route between the sweetgum (liquidambar) trees! The sweetgum tree can only live in a few regions on the Earth: America, Chine, and fortunately, in southwest Anatolia.

The first half of the route passes through in the sweetgum forests. Some passages are just like a "jungle"! Toparlar Waterfall, at the north of the course, is an ideal point for cooling off in the summer months.

SEE

Lake Köyceğiz
Prison Island

TASTE

Teas in quiet village coffeehouses
sesame halva
Blue Crab
Sığla Yogurt

SMELL

Sığla trees (highly used in perfumes)
Elm
Oleander
Laurel
Mersin

TOUCH

The coolness and the abundant oxygen of the Sığla forests

LISTEN

The old civilizations’s story of the region