Places to visit in Artvin
10 places from Artvin province are on the map: Şavşat Karagöl & Sahara, Macahel, Artvin & Çoruh Valley, Hatila Valley, Yusufeli & Barhal, Altıparmak Mountains, and 4 more. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Şavşat Karagöl & Sahara
What comes to mind when you hear “Sahara”? Sand dunes, a scorching sun, camels plodding slowly toward the horizon… So what if we told you that one of the greenest corners of the Black Sea…
See on the map →Macahel
Would you lock up a valley to protect a line of bees? In Macahel they have, and with not a hint of jest… In this forested valley leaning against the Georgian border, no bees may be brought…
See on the map →Artvin & Çoruh Valley
Someone arriving in Artvin for the first time asks not where the city was built, but how it holds on. On the slopes of the deep canyon cut by the Çoruh, houses climb upward, standing on one…
See on the map →Hatila Valley
How do you measure the depth of a valley? In meters, or by how much the sky narrows when you raise your head? In Hatila Valley, which begins right on Artvin’s doorstep, the second measure…
See on the map →Yusufeli & Barhal
Can a town move? Imagine an entire town, with its houses, gardens, market and bridges, migrating from the valley floor up the slope… Though it sounds like a fairy tale, in Yusufeli this…
See on the map →Altıparmak Mountains
“Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.” Looking at the Artvin face of the Kaçkars, these words of John Ruskin spill from your lips of their own accord. For the…
See on the map →Borçka Karagöl
Anyone who sets out to count how many Karagöls there are in Turkey will have a hard time of it. On the Black Sea, in the Aegean, in the East… Many a lake with dark waters and wooded shores…
See on the map →Hopa
To say that it rains in Hopa is to say too little; it might be truer to say that Hopa is the rain itself… An exaggeration, of course. But on this coast, one of the wettest places in Turkey…
See on the map →Kamilet Valley & Mençuna
“May you be as cherished as water,” we say when water is offered. On the Black Sea coast this blessing rings truer perhaps than anywhere, for here water is everywhere: in the rain, the…
See on the map →Ardanuç & Cehennem Creek
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!” These words over the gate of Dante’s ‘Inferno’ come unbidden to mind when you first hear the name of a certain canyon. Cehennem Deresi, Hell’s Creek…
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