Winter prepares nice panoramas in Turkey. Turkish landscape has many beautiful natural sceneries including waterfalls. Eastern region of Turkey gets so cold that water resources are frozen in winter. Ava Ore waterfall of Hakkari gets frozen and creates nice sceneries.
Filigree: A handycraft that symbolizes the beauty
Since the human being has been developed, some concepts have developed in the same way such as beauty. Especially by women, beauty has a deep meaning and some handycrafts serve the beauty with great pieces. Filigree is one of those handycrafts that arised in Mesopotamia region. It is based on manufacturing beautiful silver and gold…
Cave Hotels; A new trend in accommodation
Cave hotel type is a new trend for accommodation in the world. It has many advantages such as a different environment and an exotic atmosphere. The only disadvantage is to be a local type of accommodation. We can come across those hotels especially in Central Anatolia (Göreme) and Southeastern Anatolia. This type of tourism facilities…
Medusa: The Goddess that turns you to stone
Small Asia is a landscape that hosted many Greek Gods and Godnesses. No doubt none of them is more effective than Medusa. She could turn you to stone by a look. So her look was so dangerous that her busts were inversed. Medusa’s story includes drama and tragedy. A beautiful girl became a monster because…
Channel Istanbul: A disaster for Istanbul
Channel Istanbul is the project in the agenda of government. It is a project that will create problems for Istanbul. Firstly this project will make an island and it is going to create geographical issues. Then the other issues will follow. Tourism is one of the sectors that will harm from these issues. As we…
New Istanbul Airport; the monument of nonscientific and arrogant mind
New International Istanbul Airport was a controversial project because it was against every scientific and economical scales. For example it was built on the wood territory of Istanbul city and it caused many wild boars to run away to the urban side due to the constuction. Around a month ago, a bee colony came to…
The Museum Hotel; the hotel where the history meets
Turkey is a country where you can find some places that history and tourism meet. This is the point that makes this landscape more valuable. The American newspaper New York times made a list of 52 places to visit in 2020. One of those places is in Turkey. It is the hotel that was constructed…
Medical science in ancient Small Asia
Medical science was the developed scientific branch in Small Asia. Human being always searches the way of living longer and to cure the illness’. It was the same in the past. The ancient societies of Small Asia tried to find way in order to keep the society healthy. Thanks to the wealthness of natural source,…
Miniaturk; A mini museum of ancient structures
A museum was established in Istanbul. Mini models of famous structures are exhibited in open field. Those are the most famous structures of the world and Turkey including Bosphorus Bridge and Atatürk Olympic Stadium of Istanbul. It was established on the coast of Golden Horn. It is open everyday and all of the structures including…
A plane is under the water on our coasts
A special wreck is lying on the bottom of Kaş coast of Antalya. It is an Italian warplane from WW2. It is serving as a home for sea life. Also it is the visiting point for divers. Diving tourism becomes popular in recent years so the sunk wrecks have great meanings for divers.