Lake Van

There are a few things Van is known for. Van Golu - the large alkaline lake (apparently so much so that you can wash your clothes in with out soap!). Cats - cats with white fur and one green eye and one blue eye. But wait - there's more! They ...

Greetings from deep, dark, Eastern Turkey. Yes, we're in Van. Van is one of the places that everyone you bump into tells you just have to visit. So of course we hated it for one reason or another. Van's main claim to fame is Van Lake (3rd biggest ...

... of the Van cat and kitten that is greets you as you arrive. That was basically Van. Small with not much to see, with the biggest thing being Lake Van itself. Legend has it that there is a version of the Loch Ness Monster, but we did not see that ...

... reveal small snippets of landscape at a time before all of a sudden revealing the vast expanse of water that is the 74 mile wide Van Lake. The water was eeeriy calm and the differing shades of blue in the lake was most majestic. Never the les, I felt ...

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... .  It's a sizable city with a population of over 400,000 people and although it sits near massive Lake Van (2325 square miles), it makes practically no use of this proximity.  There is no water front activities to speak ...

Traveled from İstanbul to Van, a small cıty ın Turkey's southeast, on the VanGölu Express traın. Thıs was my fırst major trıp by traın and I must admıt- I'm not a terrıbly bıg fan of 'slow travel'. The tourıst agency ın İstanbul quoted the ...

... 's Great Salt Lake--is a crystal-clear saline lake encircled by craggy mountains with snow capped peaks and has no outlets.  Lake Van also boasts a (rumored) monster making it a bit like Loch Ness in Scotland. After our arrival we took a short hike ...

Merhaba from Van, Turkey!   It's amazing how the weather can change your impression of a city. While the "sights" of Erzerum were still nonexistent, the sunshine and warm weather put us both in better moods. The city itself is not worth noting, but ...

... it. Besides meeting lots of very friendly people, we've also seen some amazing natural and man-made sites. At Van lake, the largest lake in Turkey, we went to the Armenian church located on an island and also saw the Van cat, a species specific ...