Black Sea Coast is definitely heaven of Turkey. High mountains, powerful rivers, every kind of green color, lakes, beautiful plateaus, friendly people and small towns. This region has not flat geography. There are mostly mountains. Thats why you are seeing around 10 houses villages, small towns and low population. Its mostly rainy in all seasons because of rich green vegetation. Hazelnut, Black Tea, Tobacco are major products of this Region. Mining is so important at west part of Black Sea Region. Waterfalls, rivers, forests and mountains makes attractive for outdoor sports, rafting and nature walk.
I always wanted to see all Black Sea Coast and I did it 3 years ago with 3 of my friends in one car. Our route was starting from
Sinop. So we used Highway until we got close to Sinop. We had to drive to uphill of mountain through forest and then go down to city center. We were expecting to find Gas station on the way but it was middle of nowhere and we had small adventure like driving car to downhill without gas. It was totally dark and even we saw fox next to road. But finally we got the gas station and reached city center where we can find place for sleep. Sinop is hometown of one our friend. And we were planing to find his village next day. He has visited his village when he was a little boy so we needed time to find it. After spending night at Kızılay(Red Crescent) Pension we woke up early and walk around the city center. And then we started to find my friend's village we spent one all day to find it and we reached our goal finally. Sinop is pretty small city. There's a castle, a prison on sea (which we didnt see :( ) good Archaeology Museum, Old mosques, and Ship model stores.
Inceburun,
Erfelek Waterfall and
Hamsilos bay a must to see.
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| Old ambulance of Red Crescent in garden of pension we stayed. It was pretty cheap tho. |
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| Castle of Sinop |
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| One of oldest mosque of Turkey is here. Its from Seljuks. Built in 1214! |
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| Founder of Sinop. Sinope |
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| Mosaics from Archeology Museum |
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| Old house from city center. |
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| Hamsilos Bay |
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| Hamsilos bay |
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| Theres also small beach next to Hamsilos. |
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| Inceburun lighthouse |
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| Northernmost point of Turkey |
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| Erfelek |
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| Erfelek waterfall |
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| Barbecue place. |
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| Storeroom for houses in the village |
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| Inside of empty house |
We drove to
Samsun after Sinop adventure. We arrived to Samsun in the middle of the night. Tried to find a hotel to sleep. It was close to City Clock tower. We asked to people which places we should see. First they said you have to go
Amisos Mount. It's ancient city and they founded items which are from 5500 BC. Anyway we drove until cable bus. And Cable bus took us to top of mount. There was a nice Restaurant and Exhibition of caves from Amisos people. You also have panoramic view of the city from there. After Amisos we went down to seaside and enjoyed go-kart race :) Some part of the roads were under contruction because of tram railways. But I think tram is working now. We walked around the city center, visiting zoo, museums and shops. Had dinner Canik Meşe Tesisleri with another beautiful panoramic city view with sunset. And decided to stay one more night at hotel to get rest and move to more east next day.
Samsun is pretty big city if you compare with other Black Sea Coast cities. It looks like more western cities of Turkey. and population of the city is around 1,5 million. Also this city is important because it was starting point of Independence war of Turkey.
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| Cable buses to Amisos Mount |
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| Top view |
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| Caves of Amisos |
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| Old Citizen :) |
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| City Museum |
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| Representation of "First Step" of Independence War |
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| Phaetons next to seaside |
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| Toilet Bus :) |
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| Black Sea |
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| Panoramic view of Samsun. |
We head on to
Ordu after Samsun. Government built new highway to Black Sea Coast and its starting from Samsun through Ordu. But we preferred to use old road to see more nature.
Cape Jason (Yason Burnu) was first place we saw in Ordu. There is an old church called
Jason Church (Yason Kilisesi) which was in bad condition in the past but they made renovation and now it looks better. It' built on 1868 but this area was important place for Pontus Christians.There's also beach (
Çaka Kumsalı) and camping area behind of this place. Fatsa, Ünye,
Boztepe and Paşaoğlu Konağı are another notable places to see. Ordu city center is not really big and we spent just half day in Ordu and drove to Giresun.
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| Jason Church |
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| Inside of Jason Church |
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| Black Sea from Ordu |
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| Empty old building from Ordu |
Black Sea Coast is definitely heaven of Turkey. High mountains, powerful rivers, every kind of green color, lakes, beautiful plateaus, friendly people and small towns. This region has not flat geography. There are mostly mountains. Thats why you are seeing around 10 houses villages, small towns and low population. Its mostly rainy in all seasons because of rich green vegetation. Hazelnut, Black Tea, Tobacco are major products of this Region. Mining is so important at west part of Black Sea Region. Waterfalls, rivers, forests and mountains makes attractive for outdoor sports, rafting and nature walk.
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