Hotel Dilek Tatvan

... ei ole türklastel viisiks vastutulevat ja eessõitvat liiklejat täistuledega pimestada.<br>Hasankeyfis on pime, küsin teed hotellini ja satun tegelase otsa, kes mu sappa võtab, hotellini või siis õigemini motellini juhatab ja palub pärast jõe äärest oma restoranist läbi astuda.<br>Motellis pole kedagi. Tuled põlevad ja uksed pärani, aga ühtegi hingelist pole näha. Maja küljes sildil on telefoninumber, aga türgikeelne tädi väidab järjekindlalt, et number on ...

... about &#305;t d&#305;dnt I? Why the hell I come back a second t&#305;me? Why d&#305;d I even ment&#305;on 'yarln' &#305;f I wanted for the same day?' I suspect one of them knew Engl&#305;sh and f&#305;nally they relented and let me on the bus. Later I theor&#305;ze that they were probably try&#305;ng to dupe me s&#305;nce Im a tour&#305;st. The worse part of &#305;t was that they're the only company who operates th&#305;s route and &#305;f they had flatly refused I ...

... diesel petrol stations are abundant) and we end up going down with the engine switched off to save our rest. In a little town we can get some gas (actually cheaper than the official price) from a local unknown source that allows us to get to Van the city with the next suitable gas.<br><br>Van was really a good place as we could fill up our tank and we could as well burn a CD from a chip that had ...

... streets that are narrow, lots of curves and mostly with potholesç The mountains are steeply rising and the valleys are deep. You go up passes and then drop &#305;nto canyons, the average speed is around 30 km/h<br><br>In &#350;&#305;rnak we find a hotel (it resembles from the early 40tes) but the beds are clean and the shower works. In a ...

... started in the 13th century BC, when the kingdom of Urartu (Ararat in the Bible) set up its capital here, so there should be enough to see in and around the city for our 4 days there, but the trouble was, not all the places where we wanted to go are readily accessible. Public transportation to areas outside the city is spotty at best, since locals do not travel a lot, and there is only a small number of outside visitors in ...

... region. <br><br>We walked all over the city and confirmed that it has nothing to attrwrite home about, and its lake shore was deserted, even though there are signs that some effort has been made to develop it. The major attraction near Tatvan is the Nemrut Dagi Krater Golu, a crater of an extinct volcano, where seven lakes are ...

... with rooms that are barely acceptable and no A/C. In fact the whole region has very minimal number of visitors from outside the country, and in a way it is good because the people here are not yet polluted by them. <br><br>The most interesting thing we found, though, was not the ancient ruins but the restaurants by the riverside with their tables setup in the water, so that ...

... a different cut in it's ear to identify their owner. The women will be arriving in 2 weeks to milk the flock. Onto Tatvan, lamb pide, salad and water for lunch. Very interesting town, old and traditional. We buy Yaylu Muzu = "Banana of the Mountain" - tastes a bit like celery, and eat this on the way up Mount Nemrut ...

... bikes on our way to Diyarbakir, which is at 550 km from where we were. So we started with our rain gear on, and ready to take whatever the guy up there would decide to throw at us! Kevin was a bit less well equipped as I was, and he was not really aware that this part of the trip would be the crucial part. I knew when I planned the trip in Singapore that Kashmir would be difficult but possible with luck and sunny weather was on my side, but I was ...

... plante la tente dans son jardin et l on mange avec la famille les produits de la ferme. Le lendemain, on decouvre le nouveau decor : les maisons du village sont pratiquement toute construites a l aide des pierres volcaniques, tres facile a trouver comme on decouvrira lors de la marche vers le sommet. On ne l atteindra pas parce que j ai une douleur au talon d Achille qui m handicape un peu ...