Here's a question. ? How can a gorge 20 km long and hundreds of feet deep that carries vast volumes of snow melt every year be virtually invisible until you're inside it? Here's the plan, you turn up at the right time of year (which varies depending where your attitude to 'activity holidays' lies on the scale between mellow and suicidal), pop on some shoes that you don't mind getting wet and start the ascent. Parts of the 4km are walkable.
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If you don't fancy the hike then the 150 metres of walkway you need to traverse to get to the gorge proper is fun for everybody and the clump of tea houses, some of which serve food, which have been craftily inserted there make a great place to chill out for a while. Keith Floyd made one of his cooking programmes here. Particularly pleasant on a summer evening when the coach trippers have headed back to their hotel resorts and you can grab a beer that's been sitting in the running water all day.
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You'll probably get to Saklikent Gorge from Fethiye. The easiest thing to do is to pick up a dolmus(minibus) from the town's dolmus terminal or from the bus station. You can hail a passing dolmus from anywhere on the road leaving town and you should be there in under 40 minutes. The route takes you past a sideroad marked for Tlos, one of the Lycian cities in the Xanthos Valley, you may want to check that out. After spending some time at the gorge minibuses will take you back into Fethiye.
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