After construction of the Ilisu Dam it will be put underwater.
Our virtual voyage across the expanses of Turkey will head in a completely different direction today. We are in for a wonderful and delicious guide to the world of Turkish sweets.
Dara was an important Early Byzantine city build just 30 years later after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire.
A small resort village, Akyaka is located on the shore of a bay deeply penetrating the mainland near popular town of Marmaris.
Old Mardin is a very interesting and really mystical city but looks like not "open mind". It knows a lot of different stories but doesn't want to tell them to its guests. It is also hard to find somebody among locals who can become a guide to the real history of this city.
Along with tea, coffee in Turkey can rightly be considered as a national drink.
The Monastery of Mor Gabriel (Saint Gabriel) is one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world. It was founded in 397 by two monks Mor Shmuel and his apprentice Mor Shemun on the Tur Abdin plateau near ancient town of Midyat. According to legend Shemun saw an Angel in a dream and this Angel said him to build a church in a place marked with three big stones.
Winemaking in the Upper Mesopotamia enjoys a very long history and the roots of it go back more than six millennia. The spread of Islam in this area seriously damaged it due to ban on alcohol. But Middle East christians keep the traditions of local winemaking alive up to now.
Cağ kebabı (Jah kebab) is a unique type of kebab originating from the province of Erzurum. It is actually a variant of lamb doner kebab, which is cooked on a vertical spit.
Today we will discover such a wonderful place as Datça, a town on the Datça peninsula to the west of Marmaris.