Category Archives: Turkey

Kırşehir, Ihlara Vadisi, and Güzelyurt

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Bryan Keith

The Ihlara Valley is on many people’s short list of places to visit in Turkey.  For good reason.  It’s often considered part of Kapadokya (Cappadocia), but it’s a fair bit west of the main area of Kapadokya.  Ferda and I … Continue reading →

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A walk up Tahtalı Dağı in the winter

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Bryan Keith

Tahtalı Dağı (aka Mt. Olimpos) is the most famous of the high mountains near Antalya.  It’s certainly not the highest, but it sits quite near the sea.  The view of the mountain’s 2366m summit from the seaside resort of Çıralı … Continue reading →

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Camel wrestling in Yenipazar

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Bryan Keith

I stumbled across these photos the other day, and I realized I never wrote about a blog about camel wrestling.  Camel wrestling??!!, you ask.  Talk about click bait!  PETA will like this post about as much as the one about … Continue reading →

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Rize: The City of Glacial Lakes

Posted on September 24, 2017 by Bryan Keith

Just a few days after returning to Antalya from this year’s Kaçkar backpacking trip, I came across a book called “Rize: The City of Glacial Lakes”.  The book catalogs 145 glacial lakes in the Province of Rize with a name, … Continue reading →

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Karaman to Antalya, hunting for beautiful mountain scenery

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Bryan Keith

Certainly one of the highlights of this three-week tour from Kayseri to Antalya was the fairly flat section called the Karaman Plateau.  It was rolling hills with great views of mountains to the north and south.  I thought the section … Continue reading →

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