Founders’ Free Period — every narrated guide is free in the app until 31 August
Create your free account before 31 August and the complete audio library — every site, every language — stays yours forever. No catch, no purchase.
Audio guides at every ancient site on the trail — the Roman lighthouse at Patara, the tombs cut into the cliff face at Myra, the flames at Yanartaş that have burned for as long as anyone has written things down. Written from scratch for this coast, narrated in eight languages, and every word plays with your phone in flight mode.
The narration plays in the free app and nowhere else. Every script is free to read here.
Not a museum handset and not a scraped encyclopedia entry. 214 scripts written for the Teke peninsula, in eight languages, and built to work where there is no signal.
Every guide is an original script, researched site by site and written for the ear — never lifted off a webpage. Where you are standing, what to look for, and the one story worth carrying away with you.
Each language is written again from the same facts, in its own rhythm and its own references, with its own voice reading it. You get a guide that sounds like it was written by someone from your country.
Walk into range of a site and the guide begins on its own. No hunting through a menu with the sun on the screen, a pack on your back and gloves on your hands.
Download once on wifi and the whole library plays in flight mode — down in a gorge, out on a ridge, at the far end of the trail where nothing has a single bar of reception.
Three steps, and the last one is just walking.
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Open Downloads, tap Audio Guides, choose your language. The whole library lands on the phone while you still have wifi.
Reach a site and the guide starts by itself — or press play whenever you like. The full script is on screen too, if you would rather read.
Each language is written again from the same research rather than run through a translator, and each has its own voice reading it. Every one of the 39 sites is narrated in English, and 25 of them in all eight languages below. The other 14 are English for now.
The app follows your phone’s language and falls back to English, so you never end up at a site with nothing to play.
Tap any pin to read the guide — the narration plays in the app.
Every site on the Teke peninsula that has a guide. Open any one to read the complete script — free, no account, in every language it was written in. Each carries a code that opens that guide in the app, which is the only place the audio plays.
Follow several guides and the catalogue starts working as a single piece. Three stories thread through it.
Patara (the bishop's birthplace) → Myra (his church and the three-sisters legend). Two guides tell one biography across 1,700 years.
Tlos (his birthplace and tomb, western end of the trail) ↔ Olympos (where he killed the Chimaera, eastern end). Both guides end with the same line.
The first words you hear when you reach Yanartaş (Chimaera Flames).
You're standing in front of the Chimaera. The flames at your feet have been burning here, continuously, since before Homer wrote the Iliad. The ancients called this the breath of a slain monster. Modern science calls it methane. Both are correct.The Chimaera: Eternal Flames of Mount Olympos · read the whole guide →
The app is free, and until 31 August 2026 every one of the 214 narrated guides is free inside it. Open a free account before 1 September and the complete library stays yours permanently. Separately and always: the full written script of every guide is published free on this website, in every language it exists in.
Yes, completely. Download them over wifi before you set off and they play in flight mode — the audio, the script and the maps. That is the point: the places these guides describe are mostly where the signal is not.
Eight: English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Русский, Türkçe and Українська. Each one is written again from the same research rather than machine-translated, and each has its own voice reading it. 25 of the 39 sites are available in all eight; the remaining 14 are English for now.
No. The app starts a guide automatically when you walk into range, which is how most people use them, but you can play any guide any time — on the plane, over breakfast, or at home while you plan.
Yes. Every script on this page is published in full and free to read, with no account and no app. The narration itself lives only in the app.
We do. Each guide is researched for its own site and written to a fixed shape — where you are standing, what to look for, the one human story worth carrying away — then checked against the archaeology and the local record. That is 214 original scripts for the Teke peninsula alone.
Not at all. Most of these sites — Patara, Myra, Olympos, Yanartaş, Kayaköy, Phaselis — are day trips from Fethiye, Kaş, Kalkan or Antalya. The guides work exactly the same whether you arrive on foot after nine days or by dolmuş after forty minutes.
Every guide on this page is narrated in the free Lycian Way app, and only there. This website is where you read and plan; the app is what you walk with.
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