The Doğubeyazıt district in the Ağrı Province – one of the easternmost settlements in Eastern Anatolia – is the small town which is the base for visiting the absolute splendour that is Ishak Paşa Sarayı (Ishak Pasha Palace). The real urge for us to see Ishak Paşa Sarayı came when we were watching the 2006 …
Oh, do you remember a while back when we told you we were taking you on our East Turkey road trip? We even asked you if you were ready. Well, quite obviously, we weren’t ready because we’ve still not done it. Well, all that is about to change. We have a new determination this week …
We’re taking you on an East Turkey road trip from Patnos, Ağrı and back to Patnos again, over three days and two nights. It’s around 500 miles in total with not a motorway in sight (nice!) and this is the trip we made in May 2013 with friends. So, the map below is the route …
“Have you brought your driving license?”“Yeah, why?”“Good. We’re going on a road trip. You’re driving.” We’d just got off the bus from Erzurum, which was immediately preceded by 20 hours or so on the Doğu Express train from Ankara. Time delays meant we’d decided to stay with our friend for just a couple of days…and …
Most of our overnight stays in eastern Turkey were spent in our friend’s apartment in Patnos where she teaches. Amazingly, we don’t have a single photo of Patnos (in the province of Ağrı ) itself. It’s a small town, no landmarks to speak of, and as soon as we set foot off the bus from …
Rail travel in Turkey – it really should be top of everybody’s agenda. This is our photographic journey of the Doğu Express (Doğu Ekspresi) overnight train from Turkey’s capital, Ankara to the city of Kars. We were alighting in Erzurum. Let us set the scene… It’s May 2013 and, so far on our journey, we’ve …
For our last blog post, we were in Erciş on the northern shores of Lake Van watching the amazing site that is the inci kefal (pearl mullet) attempting to swim upstream for spawning season. For today’s post, we’re staying in Erciş and it’s the same day. We’d taken photos of the fish – lots of …
On our recent trip to visit a friend in Eastern Turkey, we were lucky enough to be around just as the annual Inci Kefal (Pearl Mullet) migration started. Every year, in May and June, thousands of fish swim upstream from their home in Lake Van for spawning season. Inci Kefal In Van Lake This is …
While we were in East Turkey, our hope was to try as many different local foods as possible. Doğubeyazıt Köftesi was an unexpected and pleasant surprise. In Eskişehir, we were recommended to try their famous Tatar çiğ börek and it didn’t take many detective skills to hunt it down. This börek is everywhere! Out of …
At the moment, we’re on the final leg of a bit of a trek around Turkey. If you remember when we wrote about our Turkey travel plans (so far) for 2013, we said we would go north from Fethiye by bus up to Eskişehir, across to Ankara by high speed train and then we would …