Antalya is best known for the limestone crags of Geyikbayırı, but the city also has indoor walls for rest days, rain and learning to climb. Boulder Jungle in Kepez is a dedicated bouldering gym, Mozaik Climbing in Konyaaltı pairs bouldering with a 16-metre outdoor rope wall, and Tutamaç is a small gym and climbing school near Lara.
Photo: Mozaik Climbing
Boulder Jungle opened in Kepez on 17 December 2022. Its walls are 4 metres high above deep matting, with more than 80 problems up at a time and at least ten replaced every Monday, and there's a MoonBoard, a campus board, hangboards and a spray wall for training. There are showers and lockers, shoes and chalk to hire, and the gym closes on public holidays.
Mozaik Climbing is the climbing gym of the Mozaik Cultural Center in Pınarbaşı, Konyaaltı. Indoors there's a bouldering area for all levels; outside, a 16-metre wall has roped routes for a range of abilities, with instructors on hand for newcomers. It opens from 14:00 to 21:30 on weekdays and from 11:00 to 19:00 on Saturdays, and is closed on Sundays. Its head coach competed for Turkey at European and World Championships.
Tutamaç Indoor Climbing is a small gym and climbing school in Çağlayan, Muratpaşa, open from Tuesday to Sunday. Akdeniz University's two walls, on its Konyaaltı campus, are used to teach its students and aren't open to the public.
At Boulder Jungle a day pass cost ₺750 in October 2026, or ₺650 on weekdays between 12:00 and 16:00. Students under 25 paid ₺600 (₺500 at the cheaper times), a ten-visit pass was ₺6,000 and a month's membership ₺3,400, and shoes (₺200) and chalk (₺150) can be hired. First-timers can book a 45-minute intro workshop on falling safely, grades and basic technique, taught in Turkish or English, and children aged 7 and over can join coaching groups of up to five. Mozaik doesn't publish its prices, so contact it before you go; it is also forming training groups for children who want to take up the sport.
Geyikbayırı is a neighbourhood of Konyaaltı, about 25 km west of the city centre. Its limestone cliffs hold over 1,000 bolted routes of every grade, with easy and hard climbs often side by side; theTopo's topo covers 892 of them in 53 sectors. Walk-ins take between one and 15 minutes. The season runs from mid-September to the end of May, as summers are hot and humid. The Yeniçay sector is closed and its bolts have been removed.
About ten camps cater for climbers, from tent pitches to chalets. JoSiTo, which has been in the middle of the crags for some 20 years, charges €12 per person a night for camping, takes cash only and rents out gear. Without a car, take the TK521C city bus from Konyaaltı to Geyikbayırı, which runs several times a day; JoSiTo's stop is Geyikbayiri-6. A 60-metre rope is long enough for every route, but you may have to lower off twice on the longest, so the camp recommends 80 metres. Öztürk Kayıkcı's guidebook to Antalya's crags is sold at the camps.
Olympos, about an hour and a half's drive from the city, has close to 300 routes in seven sectors, with walk-ins of 3 to 15 minutes. The local club TODOSK has held a rock-climbing festival there in the last week of October, around Republic Day, for more than 20 years. Çitdibi is a steep canyon of tufa-covered limestone for stronger climbers, and Akyarlar is a small beachside crag off the Antalya–Kemer road, with around 17 routes.
Turkey has two climbing systems: walk-in bouldering gyms that anyone can use, and club, university and state walls for licensed climbers. Here's how each works, what it costs and how visitors can climb.
Joe Rushton