When you pass Kaya Village and enter the Gemiler Bay road, the road splits into two in the area where dense forest texture begins on both sides. The rest of the road leads to Gemiler Bay. The forest road to the west is 1 km. then it ends. Those traveling by car should leave their cars here and continue on foot for the rest. From this point, by following the painted stones in the forest texture, Çevrik Rocks are reached after approximately 20 minutes.

When you get rid of the dense forest texture on the Çevrik cliffs and open to the sea, the view is fascinating. Every time I visit this place, I try to determine its location, stretching from Datça Capes in the north to Rhodes Island in the west, and I feel lost. However, the framework drawn here disappears even when compared to the nearby geography.

I believe that the monk who planned to establish the monastery here must have shared similar thoughts. Here, you do not go up to the acropolis and dominate the environment like an ancient lord. On the contrary, just like the name of the hill, the twisting rocks on it draw you in and leave only one direction open. The world outside you is left behind, a separate atmosphere has drawn you in. In my opinion, this should be the search point in Mevlana’s expression “those who are thirsty will find water”.

The reason for the construction of the monastery must have been the monk’s thirst.

According to legend; A monk named Eleftherios built the monastery by carving the main rock with simple tools he collected by begging and suffered here until his death.

The monastery, carved into the rock, can be accessed by simply built stairs. In the two-storey monastery, a room was created by shaping the lower floor as close to a quadrangle as the rock space allowed. Immediately to the left of the entrance to this room, there is a cistern where rainwater collected on the terrace at the second floor level is stored. The upper floor is accessed via internal stairs.

The second floor consists of two rooms. The first room reached by stairs is a hall. From here you can pass to the main room in the interior. There is an apse in the east direction, symmetrical to the door. The main nave, which is kept close to square, has a keeled upper cover. The walls of the main nave are painted blue, probably as a reflection of the sea behind.

The building group below was probably built and used by the monk’s followers after his death. The two rooms and the cistern used for daily life are not different from the many examples of buildings in Kaya Village. Just to the east of the cistern, there is the surviving apse of a small chapel. The frescoes and inscriptions in the apse can hardly be seen when the light falls.

Although the sea is close to this area, steep cliffs prevent landing on the seashore.

When going out from the terrace to the south, the oval-shaped toilet adjacent to the building attracts attention. From here the path is approximately 50 m. When followed south, you encounter a cistern built under the rock ledge. Its location within the natural texture is interesting. The cistern continues its function today by collecting water leaking from the rocks above it.

Beyond rain leaks, in the hot humid summer months, water vapor is converted into water drops by the cold rock in the nook, and the lime is taken as it filters through the stalactites, and collected as drops in the cistern built underneath, suitable for the mystical environment. The lime of the water filtering through the limestone rocks formed stalactites in the shape of elephant feet on the cistern. The chapel adjacent to the cistern has been largely destroyed.

On the way back from the same road, when you leave the Monastery area and the sea behind and enter the forest area, there are ruins of a small chapel on the right. The walls of the chapel, whose apse and upper cover were completely destroyed, are partially standing. The chapel is contemporary with the Kaya Village structures.