Places to visit in Van
7 places from Van province are on the map: Akdamar Island, Van Castle, Mount Artos, Mount Erek, Muradiye Waterfall, Hoşap Castle, and 1 more. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Akdamar Island
“Ah Tamar…” The name of the island in the middle of Lake Van is said to come from the last words of a drowning young man. Legend has it that Tamara, who lived on the island, lit a lamp…
See on the map →Van Castle
“Van in this world, faith in the next.” This saying of the people of Van is perhaps the most concise expression of a city’s confidence in itself. So what can a city offer in this world to…
See on the map →Mount Artos
Picture the best-known photograph of Lake Van: a small island in the middle, a church of reddish stone on the island, and behind it a snowy mountain rising from the water’s edge to the sky…
See on the map →Mount Erek
Looking at Van, you feel seated at a table ringed by mountains: Süphan to the northwest, Artos to the southwest, Erek to the east… For centuries these mountains around the lake have faced…
See on the map →Muradiye Waterfall
What does a stream do when a pitch-black step of stone appears in its path? Stop and wait, turn back, or throw itself into the void? At Muradiye Waterfall north of Van, the Bendimahi River…
See on the map →Hoşap Castle
Hoşap… When you first hear the name it may sound like a joke; yet the word is the Persian “hoş âb”, beautiful water. Indeed, the Turkish name of the stream flowing at the foot of the castle…
See on the map →Çarpanak Island
“The gull sees farthest who flies highest.” Readers of Richard Bach’s ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ don’t easily forget this line. So what happens when gulls settle not by the sea but on a…
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