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LycianWay is a free hiking-trail platform for Turkey's 540 km Lycian Way, the long-distance route from Fethiye to Antalya. Two parts work together: a free iPhone & Android app with offline maps, GPS tracking, daily check-ins, and emergency alerts; and a marketplace website connecting independent hikers and guided-tour customers with licensed local guides, accommodation, and airport transfers.
Both work together. Use the app on the trail; use the website to plan, find a guide or guesthouse, and book. Everything visible to non-account users (stages, packing lists, trail stories, the live trail dashboard) is free to read. Booking, profile, community feed, and check-in features require a free account.
Download the app, plan your stages on /planner, browse the packing checklist, and use the accommodation directory to find pensions and guesthouses on each stage. On the trail, the app provides offline navigation (no signal needed), daily weather per stage, water-source markers, an emergency check-in to nominated contacts, and a community feed for live trail conditions.
Browse verified tours from licensed Turkish agencies (TURSAB / TUREB), independent guides, and airport transfer providers. Tour pages show the agency's license number, ratings, languages, group size, included accommodation, and full daily itineraries. Bookings are made directly with the agency — secure card payment via Stripe, 15% deposit, balance 30 days before departure.
If you run a Lycian Way guesthouse, pension, or licensed guide service, list your business on /guesthouse-pricing or /agency. Verified listings reach hikers searching for accommodation by stage, services by skill, and tours by dates — without paying booking commissions per stay.
Yes — the mobile app, all stage info, the packing checklist, and the trail story library are free. Booking a guided tour, guesthouse stay, or transfer happens directly with the local provider; pricing is set by them. The platform earns from agency listing subscriptions, not booking commissions.
Browsing tours, stages, accommodation listings, and trail content works without an account. Free accounts unlock the community feed, daily safety check-ins from the app, saving favourite tours, and tracking bookings. Account creation takes 30 seconds with an email + password.
Inside the app, set up emergency contacts and a daily check-in window. Each day on the trail you confirm you're OK with one tap. If you don't check in within the window, your nominated contacts receive an alert with your last known GPS location. Used by solo hikers and group leaders alike.
Yes. Trail maps, GPS tracking, and stage details work fully offline once you've downloaded the trail data on Wi-Fi (about 200 MB). Mobile data is needed for live weather, the community feed, and submitting check-ins — but the navigation and safety basics work without signal. Coverage is patchy on inland mountain stages, so offline mode matters.
The interface is available in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, and Turkish — switchable via the language selector in the navigation bar. Community content (trail stories, feed posts, reviews) is in the language each user posts in. Tour and accommodation listings are typically in English; agencies often speak additional languages, listed on each profile.
LycianWay is operated by Pixelo Mobile Ltd (UK company number 10585806). All tour and accommodation providers listed are licensed under Turkish tourism law (TURSAB / TUREB) and verified before going live. The app, website, and marketplace are built and maintained by a small team — feedback to hello@lycianway.co.uk.
Pixelo Mobile Ltd, company number 10585806.