Ulubey Canyon

“Water flows and finds its bed,” our ancestors say. In Ulubey, though, the water was not content just to find its bed; it dug it hundreds of meters deep… Over millions of years the Banaz Stream and its tributaries patiently carved through the soft layers of the Inner Aegean plateau, leaving behind a giant rift that runs for kilometers and in places plunges hundreds of meters deep. Counted among the longest canyons in the world, this rift looks from afar as if it had been drawn across the plateau with a knife. So how does a river’s patience defeat a plateau’s stubbornness?