Köprülü Canyon National Park
After visiting Aspendos we continued to our next destination of Koprulu Canyon which was 37 km off the main Antalya - Side highway. Offically it is called Köprülü Canyon National Park and is in the mountains 49km northeast of Antalya. The road was good, a bit narrow at times and very curvy. As we approached along the road we started to noticed a few small hotels or pansiyons, fish restaurants with decks jutting out over the gorge and rafting companies. Rafting is a very popular sport in this area as the waters are perfect and the scenery is very beautiful with rich vegetation. We then came upon the first bridge call the '' Roman stone bridge '' and I was surprized that you could still drive across this bridge allthough very narrow. The bridge was built in the Roman period in the 2nd century A.D and is about 20m long.We parked up top the hill and then made our way down to the river's...
