TREKKING

Trekking is one of the lightest types of nature sports. It means long and tiring walking. Trekking time varies depending on the difficulty of your track. Generally, you can trek medium level tracks within 5 or 6 hours.

Trekking is highly preferred by those who seek for a momentary relief from tiring metropolitan life, desire to a day in nature and share natural beauties with teammates. The aim is to ensure one-day adaptation with natural life, which you long for in the city. You have to bear tolerable tiredness to achieve that. No technical material other than trekking shoes and a medium size backpack is required. Comfortable shoes will facilitate your trekking experience. Group guides may deliver you small tips depending on the difficulty of your track, and no other training is necessary. Recently, trekking organizations also began to offer ultimately hard trekking tracks, which require technical material and special training. Such hard tracks are for adventurers. Make sure that you have detailed information about your track before taking off.

How to do?
You can buy such tours from professional trekking agencies. Agency guides will provide you comprehensive consulting services. Among the factors, which make nature-lovers prefer trekking tours are that, these tours are daily and made in tracks maximum 1,5 or 2 hours away from Istanbul. You will generally take off early in the morning. Your trekking run will have to be completed within a day, so you have to make most out of your day.
You should ask your guides for expert information about your trekking program during your journey. Remember to have information about the difficulty level of the track before buying the tour. If you are a newcomer, you will better prefer a relatively easy and affordable track. You can get into harder tracks, as you become experienced.
Precise and key information
. Never forget your trekking shoes and your backpack. Have a water bottle, a raincoat, secondary socks and secondary clothes in your backpack. Remember that you are within nature, you may get wet in rain or during a river crossing. Your agency will provide you food and you will carry them in your backpacks until eating in rest points.
. Wear comfortable clothes. Your trekking may become a boring experience if you try to walk your track with uncomfortable clothes. Take weather conditions into consideration. Take sweatshirts in winter and hats in summer.
. Trekking is not a picnic. You will walk a long track. This is a pre-planned run. Guides do not prefer shortest way but rather alternative ways where you will enjoy natural beauties and make most out of your trekking experience.
. Stay close to the group. Try to adhere to instructions given by your guide. Never head for alternative paths where no body can see you. If you will leave the group for a while (to drink water or to pick up flowers), inform your teammates accordingly.

. You may want to take a camera and have shots in such a nice day. However, please remember that your camera may be damaged (in heavy rain or during river crossing).
. Be careful when walking in river or on rocks. River rocks are slippery, as they are mossy. Walk slowly and carefully. Your trekking shoes are of key importance under such circumstances. Never use sports shoes with smooth soles. Prefer caterpillar and non-slippery trekking shoes.
. Do not take any material, which you will not use. Avoid overload. Your track is long and overload will tire you excessively. Leave your unusable material in your car before taking off.
. Return time may be delayed. Different groups run the same track in different times. Make sure that you're tolerant and flexible with returning time.