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In Search of Mesopotamia

Van – City of Kurds

After being saved from missing the bus by our obliging Hotel owner, who rushed us to the other side of the dual carriageway in his own car, we head south again, leaving the snowy majesty of Ararat . The road climbs steeply out of Doğubayazıt, through fields that cling to the slowly melting spring snow. Poor houses […]

Doğubayazıt and The Ishak Pasha Palace

We leave the chill crisp air and Russian architecture of Kars behind us to take the road south and west towards the Iranian border. Our destination is the Kurdish city of Dogubayazit, a dusty, ramshackle and impoverished place that sprawls at the foot of Mount Ararat. With not much in itself to attract travellers, Dogubayazit […]

Ani- The City of One Thousand & One Churches

“I could worship any god in a place like this”
Mert

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