{"id":1279,"date":"2026-09-08T20:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2026-09-08T20:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:02:23","slug":"eastern-turkey-what-to-see-hakkari-hasankeyf-khalfeti-and-nemrut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Turkey: What to see \u2014 Hakkari, Hasankeyf, Khalfeti and Nemrut"},"content":{"rendered":"

In August 2026, I decided to arrange a big car trip to the east of Turkey.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The main goal was Hakkari: I wanted to return to these mountains on my own, live alone in a tent, get to places that I did not have time to see during my first hike to Hakkari in May 2026, and travel quietly through this region without a group and a strict schedule.<\/p>\n

\"Eastern<\/p>\n

By car in Eastern Turkey<\/p>\n

I rented a car for 10 days at Chukurov airport, between Adana and Mersin. The starting and ending point of my journey was Mersin.<\/p>\n

Eastern Turkey is huge, but if you look at the standard tourist routes, most people usually go to about the same places: Sanliurfa, Mount Nemrut and Mardin. Perhaps this can be called such a peculiar “golden triangle” of Eastern Turkey.<\/p>\n

At first, I also wanted to plan a trip along this route, but then I decided to go a little differently.<\/p>\n

In the end, I got something like this:<\/p>\n

Mersin \u2192 Halfeti (1) \u2192 <\/strong>Kyakhta \u2192 Djendere Bridge (2) \u2192 Kyakhta Fortress (3) \u2192 Nemrut Dagh (4) \u2192 <\/strong>Siverek \u2192 Hasankeyf (5) \u2192 <\/strong>Tarnak \u2192 Hakkari (6) \u2192 Cennet-Cehennem (7) \u2192 Ber\u00e7elan Yaylas\u0131 (8) \u2192 Sat Buzul G\u00f6lleri (9) \u2192 <\/strong>Wang \u2192 <\/strong>Mersin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In total, I managed about 2,700 km during the entire trip. If I had planned everything properly in advance and not made unnecessary hooks, I think I could have done about 2500 km<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Eastern<\/p>\n

My route from Mersin to Eastern Turkey<\/p>\n

Link to the map: https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/JvxzSEeT2SeYyXj98 <\/p>\n

Initially, I wanted to make additional trips to Midyat, Mardin and Sanliurfa, but gradually realized that I was trying to fit too much into one trip. I had been to Mardin before, but the main goal was still Hakkari, so I decided not to turn the trip into an endless race between cities.<\/p>\n

Plus, my route was constantly getting lost due to work. Sometimes I had to sit down at my computer for several hours or even half a day. That’s why I didn’t always go where I planned to go in the morning.<\/p>\n

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Now, looking back, I realize that a lot of things could have been organized much more efficiently. But it was precisely because of this unpredictability that the trip turned out to be so memorable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In August 2026, I decided to arrange a big car trip to the east of Turkey.\u00a0 The main goal was Hakkari: I wanted to return to these mountains on my own, live alone in a tent, get to places that I did not have time to see during my first hike to Hakkari in May […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}