My last international travel, pre COVID, was to Ukraine in November of 2019. In hindsight I am beyond thankful I made that trip because we had no idea what the world had in store for Ukraine. I spent a week in Kiev including a two-day tour that took me north to Chernobyl which was the primary aim of the trip. Mid November brings, just as it did then, Fall Break (a week off from work/school)…
For the five day bayram (holiday) that we had at the start of May, I decided to take the famous GAP Tour–a traditional tour that many Türks take at some point in their lives to get to see and know parts of Southeast Anatolia. GAP stands for Güney-Doğu Anadolu Proje, or Southeast Anatolia Project. You can read a bit about its history on this website from the Ministry of Industry and Technology. I participated on…
Back in October for our long Republic Day weekend I had the pleasure of traveling with my good friends, Valantis and Sinem, and their two sons, Kayra and Nicholas. We headed three hours east from İzmir to the province of Uşak with the primary target of seeing Ulubey Canyon. You may be surprised to learn that Ulubey is the second longest canyon in the world at 45 kilometers; the longest one is of course the…