GC3A7EP Ancient Kaunos City 3 ~ 3 Pirates Trail (Traditional Cache) in Türkiye created by Sir BFG and Aegean

GC3A7EP ▼

A cache by Sir BFG and Aegean_Pirates Message this owner

Hidden : 1/3/2012

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The Castle Gate.

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This cache is the third in a series which takes you around the Ancient City of Kaunos and will either be the start or the end of the Pirates trail which links our other caches together all the way back to our Waterfall cache near Koycegiz at the North end of the lake and the Amazing Castle series. GC1RRKT.

This series "The Pirates Trail" will be around 30 caches following the West shoreline of Lake Koycegiz. This lake is around 12.5kms in length and 4kms wide and at the time of hiding this cache there had been very heavy rainfall over a prolonged period which had raised the water level in the lake by 1 metre, an awful lot of water considering the size of the lake, parts of Koycegiz and tourist locations like the Sultaniye Mudbaths were flooded as a result, local elders say that it has been 45 years since they last saw anything like it.
Ancient City of Kaunos
Blokiebloke and ourselves have placed a series of caches in this area to take you to all parts of this ancient city. This cache takes you to the Castle entrance with views looking back over the old city, harbour and tombs. When I placed this cache with the Young Pirate we were not sure how to reach this location and went for the more adventureous full frontal assault straight up the steep part to the castle walls, it was good fun but not recommended, on our return we were able to find a track so I have added a waypoint to aim for behind the Amphitheatre at this location the path seems to split so just keep to the left option.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

UBYR JURER PNFGYR JNYY ZRRGF ORQEBPX ORUVAQ SYNG FGBAR

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)