Articles tagged with "Turkey"
Turkey runs from a Mediterranean coast to a high continental plateau to a wet Black Sea shore. Packing for one of them and travelling through three is the usual mistake.
Many nationalities enter Turkey without a visa for short stays. The rule that catches people is not the visa at all, it is the rolling window the ninety days sit inside.
Turkey has two shoulder seasons that are better than its summer in almost every respect, and a winter that is excellent for Istanbul and hard on Cappadocia.
Ephesus is not one city but a series of them, relocated repeatedly as the river silted up its harbour, and the sanctuary at its heart was among the most powerful in the ancient world.
Cappadocia is a landscape of eroded volcanic rock that human beings have been carving into since antiquity, producing one of the largest cave-dwelling complexes anywhere.
Istanbul was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and then of the Ottoman Empire, and the historic peninsula holds the evidence of both in the same few square kilometres.