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.