
Eastern Anatolia is a region where altitude decides everything. High lakes, the mouths of extinct craters and stone cities abandoned on mountain plateaus appear at the end of long roads. The climate is harsh and the distances are long, but in return there are Türkiye’s quietest and widest views.
What sets the region apart is feeling the scale of nature and the depth of history at once; a lake inside a crater and the ruins of a thousand-year-old capital can enter the same day’s plan. Content for this region is still in preparation; the places below show the direction of the work to come.
Places in this region
3 places
Akdamar Island
An island in Lake Van that holds the 10th-century Church of the Holy Cross, known for its carved stone reliefs.

Ani
A walled, abandoned medieval capital on the Kars border, overlooking the Arpaçay valley.

Ishak Pasha Palace
Near Doğubayazıt in Ağrı, a monumental 18th-century palace rising on a hill above the plain.
Coming next
in preparationThese places are not published yet. Work on this region continues next.
- Nemrut
- Ani
- Van Gölü ve Akdamar
- Palandöken