Southern approach to the Kaçkars Population: 100ish Other names: Parkhali (old), Altıparmak Barhal is a tiny place at the end of the spectacularly…
Beautiful Georgian cathedral Population: Less than 500 Other name: Ishkhani Seven km north of the…
Roughly 10km out of Borçka on the Artvin road in northeastern Turkey a sign to the left points up into the mountains to…
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…
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…