What really distinguishes this route is its intimate, almost careless, relationship with history. Lycia, in particular, enjoyed a period of ascendancy and unique culture before falling into the hands of Alexander the Great's successors and then the Romans. Later, Arabs, Crusader and Genoese established themselves.

Traces of all these hands are visible still, and nowhere more so than along this path, their romance and charme enhanced by the old stones lying naturallly among the scrub and goat pastures.

There are castles, harbour and forts, and terraced hillsides and settlements where the herders take their flocks and where the peasants repair for coolness in the summer.

Tim Salmon - Sunday Times World's ten Best Walks