Liman Agzi walk from Kas

Well, a pleasant stroll today. I even caught up to some fellow walkers, but they were too slow to stay with. I wanted to check my pace, packless, with Kate's two hours. Easy! I did run into a mean dog but the farmer had him on a rope. I was wary of walking back past him again on my return trip, however, and so paid 10TL for a boat ride back. Had a picnic lunch on the beach at Liman Agzi and a coffee in a cafe while I waited till the boatman was ready.
This is the beautiful sheltered bay to the left of Kaş which contains four beach clubs. It is accessible via water taxi from the harbour or by foot - the path from Kaş to Limanagzi is part of The Lycian Way . Each of the four clubs has their own unique selling points however they all offer sunbeds, shaded areas, hammocks and sea kayaks all of which are free to use if you buy your food and drink from the restaurant. The snorkelling is superb with big shoals of Barracuda and Trumpet Fish around the rocks as well exotics such as turtles, squid and octopii. This is by far my favourite beach in the area. Just head down to the harbour in Kaş and ask for the water taxi to Limonagze, don't worry about getting stranded because the clubs have their own boats which will bring you back if necessary. Some of these clubs are open in the evening providing an idyllic setting for a romantic meal

On the walk to Liman Agzi

Heading down

First view of Liman Agzi

Liman Agzi (Love the boat!)

Looking back to Kas

The Kas to Limangazi beach walk is an easy and pleasant 2 hour section of the Likya Yolu.  There are a few different ways to do it.  You could do a circuit out and back that should take 4 hours in total, or you could do it one way and catch a water taxi.

Limangazi beach is a series of 4 bays that are accessible only by water taxi or walking.  There are a number of resorts out there with restaurants and good clean beaches.  The water taxis only run regularly in summer and even then you can’t guarantee when they will be  going.  We walked out to Limanagzi and found a quiet resort where the bored staff fed us a sumptuous breakfast and took us back to the mainland for 50TL including breakfast.  Another option would be to find someone at Kas to take you over and then walk back.  A transfer is meant to cost about 10TL pp.

The route is fairly simple and in our case it was made even easier by the presence of a ‘guide dog’.  There are a lot of ‘free range’ dogs in this part of Turkey and apparently they like to follow people on the Likya Yolu, sometimes for weeks at a time.

Heading South out of Kas harbour and following the coastline, the first part of the route is along paved or dirt roads.  Coming to the walking track there are two options: one is to go along the cliff to Limanagzi and the other is to go the inland route.  We chose the inland option because the cliff route sounded hairy in Kate Clow’s book (don’t do it in rough weather, don’t carry a heavy pack, etc).  Afterwards we regretted not doing the cliffside route because we could see it from the boat on the way back and it looks amazing.  The route snakes down the cliff past Lycian tombs and caves.

Whichever route you choose you will end up at the Eastern end of the bays.  If you don’t like the look of the first place you come to you have to bush bash to the next place.  I can recommend the second bay along – Delos Beach Hotel.  Good food nice swimming and friendly people.

Okay, let me know if I got any of these instructions wrong, if you ever make it back.