Places to visit in Rize
7 places from Rize province are on the map: Kaçkar Mountains, Ayder Plateau, Pokut & Sal Plateaus, Fırtına Valley & Zilkale, Rize, Anzer Plateau, and 1 more. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Kaçkar Mountains
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” John Muir said these words of America’s distant ranges; yet you need not cross an ocean to hear this call. Anyone standing at the foot of the…
See on the map →Ayder Plateau
First you hear a tulum, the Black Sea bagpipe; sharp, cheerful, a little wild… Then comes the sound of water: a waterfall spilling down the slope, streams crashing from stone to stone. At…
See on the map →Pokut & Sal Plateaus
Would you build a house to live in for only three or four months of the year? The yayla people of the Black Sea would; and have done for centuries… The houses of Pokut Plateau, standing on…
See on the map →Fırtına Valley & Zilkale
Why would a stream be named “Fırtına,” the storm? You need only stand once on its bank after the spring rains and listen. Fed by the snows of the Kaçkars, the water races along the valley…
See on the map →Rize
“Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.” Okakura Kakuzō opens ‘The Book of Tea’ with this sentence. The Japanese writer was telling of tea’s long journey through the East; he…
See on the map →Anzer Plateau
“Saying ‘honey, honey’ won’t sweeten your mouth,” our ancestors say. True enough; but when certain places are named, a sweetness really does come to the tip of the tongue. Anzer is one of…
See on the map →Mount Ovit
Is the shortest way over a mountain to go through it? Those who for years tried to cross Ovit in winter would surely have answered “yes” without a moment’s hesitation…
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