Tigris River (Tigri) Diyarbakir

... old Byzantine and Roman city walls, around black and white stone mosques, and through ramshackle neighborhoods with views of the Tigris River winding from the white mountains of Anatolia through Mesopotamia.  The old walls are some of the most ...

... the On Gözlu Köprüsü (Ten-Eyed [arches] Bridge). Once there I angled for a picture of the bridge and the Tigris River and the Diyarbakir Castle Wall, but it just didn't make it.   I went to return by walking along the river bank. Eventually ...

Very dark city. People with their heads down and keeping quiet. Got stoned by a bunch of kids by the Tigris river. Getting out of ...

... didn't really see any men – they were most likely hanging out and relaxing. From the wall we could look down into the Tigris River valley and the market gardens lining it's banks – the land on the other side was the legendary Mesopotamia. For ...

... a number of quite unruly kids running around. Afterward they took us to south gate of the city wall where we could see the Tigris River, one of the most important historical river in the world, before we treated them to some baklavas (Turkish sweets) and ...

... Kusadasi we flew first to Diyarbakir - a  pretty large city situated on the edge of a high bank dropping down to the Tigris River, mainly populated by the Kurdish people.   There is a 4 mile black basalt wall that encircles the old part of the ...