I spent several vacations traveling around Turkey, especially in the eastern and central provinces. Detailed itineraries and reports of each trip are available here. Although the content of these pages partly overlap with what is available under , the way pages are linked is different and they contain more practical information and personal experiences.
June 2002: Eastern and Central Turkey
This is the first trip that is reported in this web-site. We started in the eastern provinces and headed west to end at the Aegean coast in Kuşadası. Eastern Anatolia, is a magnificent country with vast steppes and high mountains. Adventurous Eastern Turkey offers a magnificent scenery full of remains of ancient and lost civilizations. Among the highlights of this vacation were: the fairy-tale like castle of Ishak Pasha overlooking the vast plain at the foot of Mount Ararat, the ruins of the ancient Urartian civilization at Van, exotic mysterious Urfa, ancient Harran with its beehive houses, Mount Nemrut with its mysterious idols, the fairy chimneys of Cappadocia, and pieceful Lake Egirdir. Nature in Eastern Anatolia is splendid and unspoiled with landscapes one is never to forget. There are the vast steppes, the snow-capped top of Mount Ararat, the blue-green waters of the Van lake surrounded by snow-capped mountains and grazing herds of cattle.
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