Acarlar Floodplain Forest

Would you believe someone who told you a forest could live with its feet in the water and its head in the sun? Trees put down roots in the soil, and water comes and goes; that is what we were taught… Yet just behind the coastal dunes of Karasu lies a forest that spends half the year underwater: the Acarlar Longoz, one of Turkey’s largest floodplain forests. Come, let’s wander a while through this green silence…