Trabzon
Trip Start
May 28, 2006
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Trip End
May 17, 2007
Trabzon,
Turkey
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Campsite
Most of yesterday was spent travelling from Cappadocia and Central Anatolia to the Black Sea coast and a town called Trabzon. We camped just outside the town after we'd climbed about 300 metres to the Sumela Monastery.
It was built into the side of some extremely high cliffs above a swirling fast-flowing river by some Greek Orthodox monks. It's been abandoned since the
Sumela Monastery
population exchanges in the early 1920s and is now subject to some serious renovation work. The walls on the inside and outside of the church are covered in some beautiful frescos but years of graffitti and bored kids using the walls as target practise for their catapaults have led to some really bad damage.
Fresco 1
It still made for some great pictures though.We've spent today in the town of Trabzon - which by all accounts has quite and illustious past - although we've failed to find many of the highlights marked on the tourist map.
St.Anna's Church
We did however buy 1kg of Turkish Delight to keep us going when we enter Georgia tomorrow! Despite thinking we would both be losing loads of weight - there's no sign of emaciation just yet - quite the opposite in fact!More from Georgia when we're able...
