Posted February 5, 2014 Posted by Adam in Uncategorized
Mountain stream in deepest Kurdistan
Posted February 5, 2014 Posted by Adam in Uncategorized
My main memory of Bitlis is of driving down the main street with an army jeep in front of me. A soldier was aiming an enormous gun at me for the entire trip through the town. This picture is of a nice mountain stream a little towards Van where I stopped to wash the smell of sweat off.
Ahlat, on the shore of Lake Van, was more pleasant. It has a lovely Selçuk cemetery.
The glorious Süphan Dağı
Bitlis. Nemrut Dağı crater
Posted February 5, 2014 Posted by Adam in Uncategorized
This is Toprakkale in 1992. It was still part of Adana then.
Posted February 5, 2014 Posted by Adam in Uncategorized
It was still part of Gaziantep when I went through in 1992 on a trip from Antakya to Antep that skirted the Turkish border. My ancient Fiat 132 Mirafiori had another in its unending series of punctures. Men at the glorious metropolis of Deliosman fixed the puncture with tools that wouldn’t have been out of place in the Iron Age. I then continued to Gülbaba and along some ridiculous roads, getting to Gaziantep via the beautifully-named Burunsuzlar (place of the people without noses).
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