Tazı Kanyonu

About Tazı Kanyonu

Tazı Kanyonu (Tazı Canyon), also called Bilgelik Vadisi (the Valley of Wisdom), is a canyon at Gaziler in Beşkonak Mahallesi, Manavgat, inside Köprülü Kanyon National Park. It was cut by the Köprüçay river wearing through conglomerate bedrock, and its formation is thought to date back to the ice age. The canyon is about 4 km long and 30 to 50 metres wide, with walls 300 to 400 metres high. Local people have long known the canyon, but it became widely known after the Patika hiking group explored it in 2016, and it has since become a popular excursion. The vegetation is Mediterranean maquis with cypress, red pine and juniper. Mammals living in the valley include marten, hare, fox and wild goat, and birds seen here include black vulture, griffon vulture, golden eagle, short-toed snake eagle, crag martin, rock sparrow and blue rock thrush.