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Tamara Otel Van

Cad Bahcivan Mah Yuzbasioglu Sok No 1 Van, Van, Turkey

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Van: The Pearl of the East

A travel blog entry by bumihills

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Because of its beautiful surrounding landscape, Van was once known as the "Pearl of the East". Today we fly to Van, a city nestled along the southeastern shore of Turkey's largest lake and the one-time capital of the ancient Urartu Empire (contemporaries and oft rivals of the Hittites). Lake Van--six times bigger than Utah's Great Salt Lake--is a …

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Vanmeer, middelpunt van de Oerartische beschaving

A travel blog entry by matini

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Naar het Vanmeer over de Tendürek Gecidi (pas), 2644 m hoog, pal aan de Iraanse grens. We rijden kilometers lang langs de gestolde lavastromen van de oude vulkaan Tendürek. Op de pas ontmoeten we een koerdische duitssprekende reisgids die ons ten zeerste aanbeveelt zijn geboortestad Mardin te bezoeken.
Dit hele overwegend door Koerden bewoond gebied vanaf Dogubayazit naar het zuiden tot aan de Iraakse en Syrische grens is in volle ontwikkeling, zeer ...

Castles, castles, castles.

A travel blog entry by alexgrange

I'm lucky that the bus company I used started early at the main bus station. When I bought the ticket the agent made sure that I understood which bus station I should go to, but my taxi driver didn’t. I repeatedly pointed to the bus station name on my ticket, and I thought I had been quite vocal that I needed to go to the north bus station, but no, the taxi driver thought he knew best and took me to the main bus station. I didn’t realise I was at the wrong ...

Van - See, Katzen, Frühstück

A travel blog entry by anja281

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... werben, die er selbst durchführt. Gegenüber fand gerade eine Hochzeit statt, zu der er uns kurzerhand mitnahm. Es war eine kurdische Hochzeit und vergleichweise wenig Gäste (aber bestimmt noch 100) waren da gewesen. Es wurde getanzt, uns wurde sofort Essen und Trinken angeboten und die Zeremonie der (Geld-)Geschenkeübergabe fand auch gerade statt. Nach einer guten halben Stunde sind wir aber - mit noch vollerem Magen - wieder gegangen. Ich kam mir schon ...

To the shores of Van Golu

A travel blog entry by chagger1

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31 May

We hit the road south towards Van Golu (Lake Van) some 120km away. To get there we had to cross the barren volcanic Tendurek range (highest peak 3533m). The pass was at 2644m and right on the Iranian border(Turkish military at the ready). Further on we snaked thru the lava fields of Mt Supan, patches of unmelted snow still on surrounding peaks. Only scattered sparse settlements - poor Kurdish shepherds - hemmed in by the lava flows.
Further down ...

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