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...
I explored the insanely creepy and abandoned hospital on the edge of Turkey’s Lake Van. The city of Van lies in the East of Turkey, a sprawling metropolis situated on the pleasant banks of Lake Van, the largest of large lakes in the country. There’s only a...
I ventured inside the abandoned village of Kayaköy and found a haunting remnant of Turkey’s bloody past. Kayaköy was once a Greek village. It was bustling and busy, known to its inhabitants in the Greek tongue as Livissi. The village was lived in by...
Istanbul, where continents collide. The city where Europe meets Asia and where cultures crash into each other. A city that has shaped the history of the world. This is the ancient city of Constantinople, that has stood on the Bosphorus since time immortal. A city...
The Lycian Way stretches for over 500 kilometres along the Mediterranean coastline of Turkey. From Fethiye to Antalya this challenging trail follows ancient paths, Roman roads and historic routes that have been walked for centuries by the inhabitants of Lycia....
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