Tlos & Yakapark Trips

  The cool, shaded seating areas of Yaka Park. There are Ottoman-style seating areas and tree houses too
Ahh, the lovely Yaka Park. No day trip from Kalkan to Tlos is complete without a visit to Yaka Park Restaurants. Water falling naturally from the mountains is routed and pumped all through the restaurant making it lovely and cool. There’s no shortage of fresh spring water in the Xanthos region of Turkey and when you go to Yaka Park, all this has been channelled around the area so that there are streams and waterfalls and all you can hear is the sound of the force of gushing water. It’s especially good when you come up in the mid-summer heat, enter the restaurant and the temperature drops. You’re high up above the Xanthos Valley, the trees are shading you and you can feel the coolness from the force of the icy cold water.

Natural air conditioning.

Trout swim through the bar and enjoy being tickled
Because this area is so beautiful and remote, it has become jeep safari country and I know some of the companies do use Yaka Park as a stopping off point. If you want to go when it’s really peaceful, then early and late season might be the best times to go.  Yaka Park used to have a trout farm as well. This seems to come and go. They do still keep some pretty huge trout in one of the pool areas and they also have baby trout swimming through the spring water stream that runs through the middle of the bar.