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TURKEY turquoise Coast

IN SPRING 2021, I moved from Istanbul to a 200-year-old stone house on the Turquoise Coast—and found myself on the Carian Trail. Unbeknownst to me, the 528-mile route, part of Turkey’s growing network of ruin-laced treks, runs directly through my village.

While I can access the path from my front door, the official trailhead begins in the

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