Programme:

Day 1: Transfer to Lake Egirdir from Antalya Airport
Day 2-7: Mountain biking in the Turkish Lake District and St Paul Trail area
Day 8: Return transfer to Antalya Airport

Accommodation:

4 nights hotel / pension
2 nights village house
1 night bungalows / camping

Full Itinerary:

Day 1: Arrive at Antalya airport, transfer to Egirdir (3 hours). Check in the pension and have a meeting about the week with your guide.

Day 2: Egirdir – Yukari Gokdere (and back to Egirdir on asphalt road)
HIGHLIGHTS: teahouse view, pass, top downhill
- Egirdir Akpinar, climbing on asphalt.
- Tea at teahouse
- Akpinar to ridge, border of military base
- military base-Isparta Davraz (ski lodge), flat.
- ski lodge-pass (ca. 2000 m, bes kuyular), long climb
- pass- Yukari Gokdere, long rocky downhill, very nice
- back to Egirdir, stay at the same pension.



Day 3: Egirdir-Beydere –Atabey -Barla (back to Egirdir on the asphalt)
HIGHLIGHTS: most beautiful pass within the trip, very nice rocky downhill
- Egirdir Beydere on asphalt, flat
- Beydere-pass, short climb
- pass-Atabey, downhill, flat, partly on rocky road, last part on asphalt
- Atabey – Kalkan, flat, asphalt
- Kalkan pass, climb, beautiful pass
- pass-Barla, long rocky downhill, very nice again.
Stay at the same pension.

Day 4: Serpil Köy-Sagrak (Adada)
Today we will drive 20kms from Egirdir to Serpil to begin our trip.
HIGHLIGHTS: nice forest scenery, gorge, Adada, roman road
- Serpil Köy-lake, climbing, pushing bike (not possible to walk)
- lake-yuvali, rocky, slightly downhill
- yuvali-Sipahiler, good dirt road
- Sipahiler Sagrak, dirt/rocky, down to gorge (small river) and then up, last part asphalt
- roman road: don’t try this at home…
Stay at Sagrak old school which is now a charming local pension.

Day 5: Sagrak – picnic place – Kasimlar
HIGHLIGHTS: beautiful mountain scenery, nice downhill
- Sagrak- Adada- Yenikoy on asphalt
- yenikoy – pass, pushing the bike to long (alternative?) we will change that part and use an old migration route, it is a dirt road! 
- pass – picnic place – dirt road, mostly up, sometimes down
- picnic place – pass, dirt road, climbing a bit, traversing in mountain terrain, at a junction   with 4/5 roads you go up again (right) but not to long.
- Pass – Bucakdere, bad road but a beautiful downhill, super-mountain-scenery
- Bucakdere -Kasimlar, asphalt. Stay at Kasimlar for the night in a village house.

Day 6: Kasimlar – Caltepe
HIGHLIGHTS: beautiful (asphalt) river-road with nice trees, view from pass. It is the longest downhill
- Kasimlar – junction (to Seydisehir – Konya), good road along the riverside.
- junction to first pass (ca. 1800 m): long climb, dirt road, nice view (to the lake)
- first pass-second pass, slightly down to junction (follow Antalya) and up again, rocky dirt road
- second pass – long beautiful downhill to the main road
- on the main road (asphalt) to Caltepe. We will stay at the Barca guest house.



Day 7: Caltepe – Selge – Roman bridge
HIGHLIGHTS: gorge-road, Selge, Roman bridge
- Caltepe – climbing to small village
- from small village through beautiful gorge to altinkaya (old ancient city of Selge)
- downhill on asphalt to holiday houses/restaurant at riverside (roman bridges). We will stay near by the river.

Day 8: Transfer to Antalya for the flight.