Bafa

We eventually (and reluctantly) left Geyekbayiri and headed west to Lake Bafa. The van behaved itself impeccably and we arrived to a beautiful evening on the shores of lake Bafa. The landscape is breathtaking, but even more so if you’re a boulderer. The shores of the lake and all the slopes of the neighbouring mountains are littered with thousands of granite boulders.

Bouldering is relatively new to the area and only a few hundred problems have been documented, so if you’re a boulderer who wants to explore loads of virgin boulders then the potential is massive. Unfortunately, due to minor van issues, our stay here only allowed one day of bouldering. The boulders that we visited had some really good problems on them. It took us a little time to adapt from limestone to granite, but we soon clambered up a few problems.