Turkey’s first white-water rafting town Population: 6,500 Market day: Saturday ***In…
“Happy Nest” Senyuva is a pinprick of a place up the Fırtına valley from Çamlıhemşin in the foothills of the Kaçkar mountains. If…
“Hazelnutty” Laz town Population: 11,000 Aside from a few battered…
A town called “Market” Population: 16,200 Market day:…
First of the Laz towns Population: 24,000 Market day: Wednesday Is there…
Modern Turkey has accommodation to suit all tastes and budgets, with what’s on offer at the top end of the market increasingly world…
In mid-September Turkey’s schools reopen and the long, hot summer starts to wind down. That doesn’t necessarily mean that all the hotels suddenly…
Turkey in summer can be hot. Stinking hot. The sort of heat that turns air-conditioning into a necessity rather than a luxury. But…
It was once as mystically remote as Timbuktu, a place heard about but never quite seen, so rough was the road beyond Çamlıhemşin.…
Heart of Hemşin country Population: 1,700 The road from Ardeşen…