Ekinözü owed its reputation to a road. In Seljuk and Ottoman times the caravan route linking Erzurum, Sivas, Gürün, Darende and Elbistan ran through here, and hans were built in the district for travellers to rest and lodge in. It was that traffic, the provincial directorate says, that carried word of the springs to the surrounding provinces.
There are three of them — Yukarı İçme, Orta İçme and Aşağı İçme — and at the middle one it is also possible to take mud baths.
The directorate describes the water as rich in natural minerals and says it is held to be good for a number of complaints.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Kahramanmaraş as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 4.9 °C in January to 28.5 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May, June, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (131 mm) and lightest in August (2 mm). Long-term means for 1930-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
