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TURKEY - TURKEY

Un sogno che è diventato realtà

La voglia di fare un viaggio in Turchia è sempre stata tanta, forse il fascino di questa terra divisa su due continenti, forse la storia millenaria che ha cullato civiltà e popoli diversi, città e luoghi che hanno il fascino del mistero e poi i racconti di chi ci era già stato mi ha fatto decidere che era arrivato il momento di andarci di persona.



Dopo aver parlato con alcuni amici del progetto e formato il gruppo, abbiamo cominciato con l’abbozzare l’itinerario, ci siamo accorti subito della vastità del territorio and the countless things to see and unfortunately, because we all had more or less available to the canonical three weeks, make choices coupon sites that would otherwise have deserved to be seen. The priorities we have set ourselves, however, over whether to also include off-road, was that we would try to avoid places too touristy and crowded and that there would be forced to wander in tortuous one that still should have been the most intriguing travel destination , Dogubayazit on the border with Armenia and at the foot of Mount Ararat, the highest point east that we touched. (N39 ° 31'237''E44 ° 07'562'')

The point chosen for the rearrangement was Pamukkale. Li we have come in dribs and drabs, some by land, crossing the Balkan peninsula, passing by those who come straight from Italy and Greece in Izmir.

Personally, I embarked in Ancona to Igoumenitsa and after passing through customs in Greece I did Ipsala from there I got to where I crossed the Dardanelles Gelibolu reaching Cannakle then a ride to Pamukkale!


These crews

Land Rover Defender 90
I (Pippo) and Sonia

Land Rover Defender 90
Alessandro

Land Rover Defender 110
Dario and Lella

Land Rover Defender 90
Daniel and Maureen

Nissan Patrol GR
Sabina Carlo and Umberto

Toyota HDJ 80
Antonello and Ilaria

These stages of the journey, my journey

Melegnano - Ancona - Igoumenitsa (Greece) Igoumenitsa
- Ipsala
Ipsala - Cannakle (Daranelli) - Izmir - Pamukkale Pamukkale
- Beysheir
Beysehir - Goreme (Cappadocia) 2 days
Goreme - Nemrut Dagi (tomb of Antiochus)
Nemrut Dagi - Kurdistan -
Van Van - Dogubayazit
Dogubayazit - Erzerum - Sumela
Sumela - Trabzon -
Amasya Amasya -
Safranbolu Safranbolu - 3 days
Istanbul Istanbul - Sofia (Bulgaria) - Pirot (Serbia)
Pirot - Belgrade - Zagreb (Croatia) Zagreb
- Melegnano

I will not elaborate in the report stage for stage but I will focus on places that aroused in me the most intense emotions.

Pamukkale (cotton castle), a fairy-tale landscape with a dazzling white petrified castles. The waters of hot springs, laden with calcareous salt, pouring on the edges of the plateau, have created this fantastic formation of stalactites, cataracts and basins.
and 'a fairytale what comes up in the eyes of those who go to Goreme and its Fairy Chimneys. A maze of towers, crevasses, canyons, pinnacles and rock castles. the corrugation of the earth's surface in the middle of a plateau 1,000 meters above sea level in central Anatolia, is the result of patient work (lasting a few million years) of Mother Nature, two accomplices volcanoes dormant for some time. Fantastic !!!!!!
on Nemrut Dagi, 2,150 meters high, which is considered the highest mountain in the north of Mesopotamia, there is the gigantic funerary sanctuary erected in the first century. BC by King Antiochus I of Commagene. Here stands the man-made mound, flanked by terraces where pose the colossal statues of Apollo, Zeus, Hercules, Antioch and others. From down here in the mountains of Kurdistan and crossing the Euphrates we headed to Van
Dogubayazit (from dog-biscuit, dog biscuits) to get there after a long and downs that bisects the northern Anatolia, the magic that breathes and is unique due to the fact that it may be passed here the ancient Silk Road, or because it sits at the foot of the legendary Mount Ararat, but in the evening we made camp near the campsite where Murat has stopped even before the Italian expedition of Overland me excited!!

And Istanbul (Constantinople) nothing to do with the rest of the country! A megalopolis of 12 million inhabitants and a half, whole neighborhoods arise within a few months, traffic is chaotic but the surface light rail connecting all the most interesting city. Here we spent 3 days to see everything that was easy to see. From the bridge over the Bosphorus to the mosque of Aya Sofia Mosque Blu, il Palazzo di Topkapi, la piazza Sultanahmet, i sui Gran Bazar, il Corno d’Oro. Da li a poco avremmo dovuto riprendere la strada di casa, peccato!

In conclusione posso dire che la Turchia mi ha affascinato, attraversarla praticamente tutta da ovest ad est e viceversa mi ha permesso di scoprirne i fantastici paesaggi. Dall’altopiano Anatolico, alle spettacolari le montagne del Kurdistan, i suoi villaggi con gli orti vicino alle case e l’accoglienza delle persone. Insomma una terra ed un popolo fantastico. Va precisato che chi si avvicina ad un viaggio del genere deve avere ben chiaro che i chilometri da fare sono molti, ma lo spettacolo durante i lunghi trasferimenti appaga the eye and spirit.
Thanks to the fantastic traveling companions spent three weeks fairytale. all the photos from the trip you can see in the "photo albums"

"Allahismarladik" I entrust to God, so that greets the traveler leaves.