Butterfly Valley

This guide to Butterfly Valley, on Turkey's Lycian coast, opens with a boat cutting its engine below cliffs three hundred fifty meters high, on a beach no road has ever reached — protected by a 1995 law banning any permanent construction. It traces the backpackers who found this slot canyon in the 1970s and the tent camp that still gathers here, then follows the stream trail inland past two waterfalls toward the moths gathering on the leaves. Listen for how the valley got its name on the walk to the falls.