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Yanartas

Yanartas meaning flaming rock is an interesting and worth seeing  formation. Gases coming through rocks in the area forming  constant burning fire.

How to get ?

 Before climbing a km height an entrance fee must paid at the foot of the mountain. Rock stairways from the entrace will take you up to area of flaming rocks.  Visiting by night recommended as the fires are dancing around you.

Minibuses going to kumluca and Olympos can be taken from antalya bus station to reach here .

Yanartas is a place take a part in mythological stories located above the Cirali beach to north side of Olympos . Distance from olympos to yanartas is almost an hour.

Here is  the brief of  epic story i mentioned above ;

A man called Bellerophontes with a divine beautiy was craving to get the flying horse Pegasus so he was running after pegasus for any condition , anywhere , anytime nevertheless Bellerophentes was not able to even get closer to pegasos. Gods from olympia had revealed the secret to catch pegasos in his dream. He caught to pegasos as the gods told , with a golden bridle when he was drinking water from the creek.

Bellerophentes accidentaly kills a man so he runs away from Argos and settles as a refuge to palace of Tiryn king . The wife of king falls in love with the divine beauty of Bellerophentes and pushes him to make love though Bellereophentes refuses his desire not to be unrespectfull for the man who took him as a refuge. Dissapointed women with the rejection by Bellerophenes defames him and lies to king about him by saying she was almost raped by bellerophontes. King gets crazy and send Bellerophontes to the father of woman who is a lycian king with a letter to be delivered him.

Bellerophontes reaches the lycia and king  hosts him nine days. Lycian king reads the letter in the ninth day and understands that he needs to kill this beautifull man nevertheless as the other king he could not kill him. King asks Khimaira or Chimera  to kill him. Khimaira ( chimera ) is a weird beast blowing fire , with lion head , serpeant tail and a goat rising from the body.  Bellerophentes defeated the chimera with the support of Pegasos . King respected this handsome guy after defeating undefeatable chimera and  believed that he is a divine human. King lets Bellorophonetes to get married with his daughter.

Khimaira ( chimera) born with mating of underground beasts Typhon and Ekhidna  was living in The mount olympos – yanartas.  Chimera was blowing fire at the last breath of him  before killed by Belerophontes on soils of Yanartas.  Today you can still see the fire of chimera is coming among stones of mount olympos.

 

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20 Haziran Çarşamba, 2012
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goerge broome
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chimera
it is such a good and gripping mythological story . It is so real even to believe without any hesitation.

21 Mayıs Pazartesi, 2012
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roland weber
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how to go cirali
first you must go to olympos by car or minibuses available from antalya. after getting to olympos ask anyone they will show the way to climbing point to cirali. Then only thing to go cirali is walking up

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