Erikli and Delmece, south of the towns of Kocadere and Teşvikiye, are the best known of the high pastures of Yalova.
The area carries pine, oak, chestnut and lime over a wide stretch, with waterfalls nearby and a deep crater lake known as the bottomless lake. There is also a spring the local people call healing water. Delmece, in Teşvikiye, is interesting above all for its walking route, which gives access to several different kinds of landscape on the way.
The plateau covers 400 dönüm and carries sixty timber houses and twenty masonry ones. The whole of the area it stands on falls within forest land.
- Designated
- 11.07.2011
Entry fee
- Marmara group 3 · category 1 · Per person
- 65 ₺
Getting there
- Access
- The plateau is reached from Teşvikiye in Çınarcık, 17 km inland from the coast, on asphalt road all the way; it spreads over a very broad flat.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Yalova as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.6 °C in January to 23.6 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (113 mm) and lightest in July (25 mm). Long-term means for 1931-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
