Places to visit in Bitlis
5 places from Bitlis province are on the map: Mount Süphan, Nemrut Crater Lake, Bitlis Castle, Ahlat, and Tatvan. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Mount Süphan
“Mist has wrapped the mountain’s peak, / The silver stream flows on and on…” When we sing these lines, most of us don’t picture any particular mountain; but look at Süphan on the northern…
See on the map →Nemrut Crater Lake
There are two Nemruts in Turkey. One is in Adıyaman, the mountain of a king who wished to sit side by side with the gods; the other stands above Tatvan, a giant volcano that once spewed…
See on the map →Bitlis Castle
“Five minarets in Bitlis, come this way, come this way…” The first line of this folk song shows how few words it takes to describe a city: five minarets and a call… So why would a city…
See on the map →Ahlat
Can a person’s life fit onto a stone? Their name, their prayer, perhaps their favorite ornament… Wandering among the gravestones of Ahlat, you look for the answer in the tall, slender…
See on the map →Tatvan
How does a train board a lake? It may sound like a riddle, but in Tatvan the answer is simple: by rolling, car by car, into the ferry moored at the pier… This port town at the western tip…
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