Places to visit in Ordu
5 places from Ordu province are on the map: Boztepe & Ordu, Perşembe Plateau, Çambaşı Plateau, Cape Jason, and Ünye. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Boztepe & Ordu
“If only Ordu’s streams would flow, would flow uphill…” So begins that folk song sung with the horon dance. No one has ever seen water flow uphill, of course; yet riding the cable car up…
See on the map →Perşembe Plateau
Why doesn’t a stream flow in a straight line? When it could shorten its way, why does it bend this way and that, wander about, and curl back again as if it wanted to return to where it came…
See on the map →Çambaşı Plateau
When winter comes, the Black Sea yaylas sink into silence. The meadows that brimmed all summer with the kemençe, the horon and smoking chimneys are blanketed in snow; the villagers go back…
See on the map →Cape Jason
“As you set out for Ithaka / hope the voyage is a long one…” says Cavafy. The poet had Odysseus in mind, of course; yet reading these lines, another sailor and another long voyage come to…
See on the map →Ünye
Can a town take its name from a wine cup? Ünye’s old name is Oinoe, and tradition has it that the name is related to “oinos,” the Ancient Greek word for wine. Today on Ünye’s slopes you see…
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