Nemrut

Adiyaman/Nemrut

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October 8th 2010
In the evening we arrived to our hotel at Adiyaman. The program was to leave the luggage to the hotel and go directly to the mountain of Nimrod/Nemrut. The road to the mountain was too small for the bus, so we had to go there till a point with a small van and continue the trip by donkey or feet. At the last minute I decided to skip the mountain trip and go the hotel room to recover. (believe ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Southeastern Anatolia » Adiyaman

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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