Alinca - what a day!

What a day! One we'll remember forever for a range of reasons 😁😬. We set off from Kabak heading for another mountain village called Alinca. The little market in Kabak wasn't open so we had to make the steep  trek down to Kabak beach to see if a shop was open as we needed water for the day.

Kabak beach was lovely but a hive of construction - so many villas being built. This gorgeous beach will be very different next season.

After getting nervous about no water for sale we finally found some and set off for what we thought would be a hard but beautiful trek around the coast up to the village of Alinca.

This was no walk for the faint hearted, it was brutal. The track was narrow and hugging the side of sheer rock faces and and incredibly steep gradient .

We were so far into the track when we came across a sheer rock wall and the little track markers were painted on the rock face with red arrows indicating to go up. Yikes! We had big backpacks and front packs....this looked tricky. It was too dangerous to turn back as going down how we had come up would have been dire. So up we went with a lot of courage summoning. 

The track had small parts where it felt OK, still super narrow and scary but  you couldn't get comfortable as you kept going up and up and up.

Spot me amongst the rock face, little black dot almost!

There were incredible views in amongst the hard yakka and careful foot placement, lots of loose scree and one wrong foot....we tried not to think about it. Our water was running low and it was hot, full sunshine and steep. We started rationing our water. We had to keep going, one foot carefully in front of the other.

We finally made it to Alinca. Took 6 hours of sweat and positive affirmations 😁. Wouldn't you know it once we got to the point the track joined a road to the village there was a new build construction and we had to go up the steepest loose shingle driveway in the world, just to finish us off 😁.

We found a little roof top restaurant just as we were walking into the village, Likya Camping & Restaurant . Our packs were off lickety split and we had freshed squeezed OJ and omelette. The best food in the world after walking an insane track.  They had rooms to rent so that worked for us, we weren't walking another step if we could help it.

The shower felt therapeutic on our muscles and tired bones, got our sweaty  hiking clothes washed and drying in the sun. Tomorrow our next stop was to be  a village on the crest of the mountain range in the photo above. I think we'll take a dolmus if possible and have a lay day. 

The sunset from our pansiyon is beautiful. We had a beer and dinner on the terrace just soaking up the serenity. As the sun dropped into the sea we headed for bed. Over and out and we'll see how the muscles feel tomorrow.