Mt Nemrut National Park

About 2.000 years ago, an obscure Commagene king chose to erect his own memorial sanctuary on top of a mountain. Today the highlight of the Mountain Nemrut National Park is this sanctuary, an artificial summit crammed with the heads of the gigantic statues of gods and kings.

Gaziantep Tour - day 3

July 4th 2007
Day 3: That night we could hardly sleep in some dormitories (by the way, in Turkey girls and boys don't share the dormitory, they are 2 separate buildings, sometimes in different areas of a city), for 2 hours (personally, I only took a bath and got ready to leave). We had to start our journey to Mount Nemrut at 1.30 am, because of the long distance problem. We arrived there at about 4 a ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Southeastern Anatolia

Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more

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