If you’re driving from Doğubayazıt in Eastern Turkey to the Iranian border you will pass a signposted turn-off to the north that winds 4km into the fields and brings you to a huge crater apparently created in 1892. It once measured 35m round by 60m deep but is slowly being filled in by accumulated silt. Hundreds of jackdaws nest in its walls.
What can I say? It’s a big hole in the ground! You may find the sight of the long queues of lorries waiting to enter Iran more exciting…
Transport info
Without your own car, you will have to hire a taxi in Doğubayazıt to get here.
The trip can be combined with one to the supposed site of Nuh’un Ambarı (Noah’s Ark) but unless you can get a group together you may end up feeling that the fare exceeded the value of what you’d come to see.
