Hamurpet Lakes

“The eye is the mirror of the heart,” they say. So if mountains had eyes too, what would they reflect? Looking at the small lakes hidden among volcanic hills in the highlands of Varto, more than two thousand meters up, you find yourself caught up in just such a question. The Hamurpet Lakes were born of waters that slowly gathered in the mouths where the mountain once breathed fire; as if, where the fire went out, the mountain opened its eyes…