Mount Chimaera Traditional Cache
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The mystical flames at the Chimaera. The Chimaera, a series of
flames issuing ot of cracks in the bare hillside, is one of the
most unusual sites in the whole of Lycia.
Some say this geothermically active region was the inspiration for
the myth Ctesias (as cited by Pliny the Elder and quoted by
Photius) identified the Chimaera with an area of permanent gas
vents which can still be found today by hikers on the Lycian Way in
southwest Turkey. Called in Turkish Yanar tas (flaming rock), it
consists of some two dozen vents in the ground, grouped in two
patches on the hillside above the Temple of Hephaistos about 3 km
north of Çirali, near ancient Olympos, in Lycia. The vents emit
methane thought to be of metamorphic origin, which can
spontaneously ignite. In ancient times sailors could navigate by
the flames, but today is used more to brew tea, the flames of
little use for navigation now.
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Jura lbh ernpu gur gbc bs gur uvyy jurer gur synzvat ebpxf ner, ba lbhe evtug lbh jvyy frr n gerr fgnaqvat nybar. Tb pybfre naq svaq gur fgbarf whfg 1 zrgre vasebag bs gur gerr haqre gur jnyy. Lbh jvyy svaq n fznyy pnc gurer. Cyrnfr sbyybj gur cvpgherf.
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