Aladağlar Travel Guide

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Demirkazık, Emli Valley, and the Bolkar Mountains. The Aladağlar, "the Red Mountains", are the central Taurus range, sitting between Cappadocia and the Mediterranean coast. They are the most-climbed mountains in Türkiye, with serious alpine routes on the high peaks and a long history of summer camping in the valley below. The range rises where the provinces of Niğde, Kayseri and Adana meet and has been protected as Aladağlar National Park since 1995; the climbing and trekking side covered here is reached from the small town of Çamardı in Niğde. The range tops out at Kızılkaya (3,767m) and contains more than thirty other peaks over three thousand metres. While Kızılkaya holds the title of highest peak, mountaineers know the range by its iconic face, Demirkazık (3,756m), a few metres lower but the summit climbers come for. The eastern face is what climbers come for, sheer limestone walls, alpine routes graded from easy scrambles to long technical climbs. The western valleys and the southern Bolkar range complete the regional package. This guide combines the Aladağlar themselves with the Bolkar mountains to the south and a few of Niğde's lower-elevation cultural sites. Four days minimum if you want to climb. Two if you only want to camp, walk, and look. Before you scroll, the film at the bottom of this page travels through most of the places below, so it is worth a watch. The classic Aladağlar base. 1 min read Emli Valley is the standard base for climbing and trekking in the Aladağlar. The valley sits at around 1,800m on a flat grassy floor, with shepherd huts in summer and the eastern walls of Demirkazık rising directly above. A seasonal stream runs through in spring after the snowmelt; by mid-summer it is mostly dry.

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نيغدة، تركيا