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So allow us to refer you back to the map of our East Turkey road trip. We started off at point A, Patnos, and drove Southwest to point B, Muradiye Waterfalls. In our last post, we then headed northwards to Doğubeyazıt so we could visit the amazing Ishak Paşa Sarayı. After that, it was decided we …
Continue Reading about East Turkey Road Trip Part 3 – Unexpected Adventure In Iğdır
In our last blog post - part one of our east Turkey road trip - we took you to Muradiye Şelalesi (waterfalls) in the Van region. In today's post, we're heading north and back into the Ağrı region. We pass very close to the border with Iran and it's strange to see road signs reading, 'Doğubeyazıt,' …
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 - maybe even a …
Continue Reading about East Turkey Road Trip Part 1 – Patnos To Muradiye
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 we took. You can zoom …
Continue Reading about An East Turkey Road Trip – Are You Ready?
"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 …
Continue Reading about East Turkey Adventures On The Road – 10 Driving Tips For A Road Trip
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 itself - it's a small town, no landmarks to speak of, and as soon as we set foot off the bus from Erzurum, you could almost feel the …
Continue Reading about Famously Eating Our Way Through Patnos, Ağrı
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 …
Continue Reading about Ankara To Erzurum On The Doğu Express – The Train Journey In Photos
In last week's Turkish Food Focus, we took you back to the Van region with us, to Erciş, and we indulged in some very tasty, buttery trout, cooked in three different ways. All of this happened at Yeşil Erciş Alabalık, an eatery we went to after watching Van Lake's unique inci kefal (pearl …
Continue Reading about Turkish Food Focus: Sampling Ayran Aşı in Erciş, Van
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 …
Continue Reading about Turkish Food Focus – Devouring Simply Cooked Trout At Yeşil Erciş Alabalık
Every year, in May and June, thousands of fish swim upstream from their home in Lake Van for spawning season. On our recent trip to visit a friend in Eastern Turkey, we were lucky enough to be around just as the annual Inci Kefal migration started. Inci Kefal In Van Lake This is Erciş and …
Continue Reading about Watching Nature In Action – Spawning Season For Lake Van’s Inci Kefal
