Frozen Lake Çıldır – a winter destination for the adventurous

Tucked up in the far north-eastern corner of Türkiye on the borders with Armenia and Georgia, 60 km from Ardahan, is the huge and glorious Lake Çıldır (Çıldır Gölü). 1959 meters above sea level, it is the second-largest lake in the Eastern Anatolia Region after Lake Van, and the tenth-largest in Türkiye, with an area […]

Kars. The colder the weather, the warmer the people

Part Two of an adventure to Eastern Turkey Please click on the link below if you missed Part One. All aboard the Turistik Doğu Ekspresi to Kars Written for Fethiye Times and with photographs by Mike Vickers and Jan Jones Kars. The colder the weather, the warmer the people Blimey, our room at the Güngören […]