This Survival Guide will explain how to travel from Cappadocia to Mount Nemrut by bus! Cappadocia is one of the most surreal, stunning and visited parts of Turkey. The landscapes and cave cities are unique, and worth the particularly long effort it can take to travel...
Akdamar Island lies in the middle of Lake Van. On the island I found one of the few remaining Armenian churches left in Turkey, and a dark reminder of the events that violently shaped the landscape of a modern nation, in a strangely spectacular setting. It might...
In search of giant heads. My Mount Nemrut travel expedition. I had travelled deep into central Turkey in search of the fabled, legendary giant heads of Nemrut Dagi- Mount Nemrut. Mount Nemrut is far from anything. I had travelled to the small, provincial town of...
I travelled to the ancient town of Hasankeyf in southern Turkey, an ancient Mesopotamian settlement in the cradle of civilization that may soon be completely flooded. “Hasankeyf is old”, Arjan tells me over a cup of steaming hot Chai on the banks of the...
I went swimming in the Antique Pool of Hierapolis, in the ruins of an ancient city by the travertines of Pamukkale. Pamukkale. Turkey’s busiest tourist attraction. And I was right in the middle of it all. Evading touts and dodging tour guides. It was like a...
The strange travertines of Pamukkale are a bizarre sight to behold when travelling to Turkey. The travertines of Pamukkale rise up out of nowhere. Driving through the flat, arid landscape of central Turkey on the road from the city of Denizli, ahead of me a pure white...
Along the Borders chronicles my multi-year journey along Britain's borders, boundaries and frontiers. Published by Penguin Random House, and available now!
