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Location
: Kaklik cave, on Denizli- Afyon- Ankara
and Denizli Çivril highways, and 30 km away from Denizli
provincial centre, 2 km away from main tour route which
is over road route at international
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Çardak Airport
at 45 km and in Kaklik town of Honaz district is uniquely
beautiful in respect of its formation and development
feature as well as its interesting travertines and pools
similar to Pamukkale, and dripstones, stalactites and
stalagmites. Due to both underground stream that flows
through the cave and the spring that has come out beside
the cave and has let some of its water into the cave
close masses and petty small foliate ivy-like plants
have grown on the walls of hydrologically active Kaklik
cave, that receive direct sun light and permanently
drip and leak. These plants that take on different tones
of green during the day depending on the light contribute
a distinct beauty to the cave.
Properties : The environs
of Kaklik cave which is a doline-spring collapse ponor
located active cave is composed of Mesosoic lime stones,
Eosine marn, clay sandstones and conglomerates, miosen-polisen
old clay, sand, marn and lime stones and travertine
and alluviums pertainingto quaternary.
Kaklik cave has a length of 65 m in Nortwest southeast
direction and 40 m in north east direction and a circular
entrance of 13x11 size. According to the entrance, the
deepest point is 190m, the cave whose ceiling height
varies between 2-5 metres has a second section in the
southwest end of the cave. This section, which
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