Delights of Turkey

[...] Mount Ararat in Turkey(Doğubayazıt, Ağrı Province). The name “Ararat” for the peak derives from the [...]

[...] peak of the Ararat massif. It was in this area that, by the Tehran Convention of 1932, a border change was made in [...]

[...] The Sumela Monastery is a Greek Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary at Melá mountain, in the region [...]

Saklıkent Canyon is located in Muğla province in Turkey, 50 km from the city of Fethiye. The Canyon is 300 meters deep and 18 km long, one of the de [...]

[...] , a border change was made in Turkey’s favour, allowing it to occupy the eastern flank of Lesser Ararat.[5] Mount Ararat in Judeo-Christian tradition is associated with the “Mountains of Ararat” [...]

Dolmabahçe Palace is a must visit attraction in Istanbul. It served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1922 . The [...]

The Titus Tunnel of Vespasian (Titüs Tüneli) is a Roman engineering marvel, located in Samandağı. It was built as a water channel in the 2nd cent [...]

[...] becomes shallow and easy to walk through. At the beginning there are some very nice tree-house type cafes where you can relax and have a drink. Outside there is also a nice place to have [...]

[...] tunnel system with additional cave-like rooms. What he had discovered was the ancient Derinkuyu underground city in Turkey. The elaborate subterranean network included discrete entrances, [...]

[...] variations of it with different names depending on where you go The Turkish variant of the pastry kanafeh is called künefe, . and the bunch of wirey shreds that it is based on is called kadayıf. A [...]