Great Outdoors

• Place · Cappadocia Salt Lake (Tuz Gölü) The Salt Lake, Tuz Gölü in Turkish, is the second-largest lake in Turkey. In summer it dries to a white crust of…
• Article · Cappadocia Best Time to Visit Cappadocia: A Season-by-Season Guide The best time to visit Cappadocia, season by season: spring walks, summer heat, autumn harvest and snowy winters, plus how the weather…
• Place · Diyarbakır Hevsel Gardens The Hevsel Gardens link Diyarbakır's walls to the Tigris. Farmers still grow vegetables and fruit here, and the gardens share a 2015…
• Place · Marmara Sapanca Lake Sapanca Lake between Sakarya and Kocaeli: a freshwater lake with a 252 km² catchment, a drinking-water source for both cities, with shore…
• Place · Cappadocia Red and Rose Valley, Cappadocia Red and Rose Valley in Cappadocia: the Kızılçukur and Güllüdere valleys between Göreme and Çavuşin, with a 4 km trail, rock churches…
• Place · Dalyan Sultaniye Hot Springs, Köyceğiz Sultaniye Hot Springs on Lake Köyceğiz: warm mineral water of about 39 °C, run by Köyceğiz Municipality, reached by boat from Dalyan…
• Place · Black Sea Boztepe, Ordu Boztepe in Ordu: the hill above the city, reached by a 2,372 m cable car from Atatürk Park in about 8 minutes,…
• Place · Aegean Kordon, İzmir The Kordon in İzmir: the seafront promenade of Alsancak, with lawns, cafés and fish restaurants, the Atatürk Museum house of 1875–80, and…
• Place · Antalya Kurşunlu Waterfall, Antalya Kurşunlu Waterfall near Antalya: an 18 m fall in a 2 km canyon with seven small pools, a nature park since 1991…
• Place · Alanya Damlataş Cave, Alanya Damlataş Cave in Alanya: found in 1948 while stone was quarried for the harbor, a stalactite cave that stays around 22 °C…