Turkey

Nature

Turkey is a very mountainous country. In addition, each of the major mountains is completely different. In the south of the country is an extensive limestone formed by ** Taurus **, which creates a beautiful memory of famous Turkish beaches. To the north is a huge ridge ** Pontic Mountains ** The highest peaks are in the east of the country in the volcanic ** Armenian Highlands ** – ** Interesting mountains: ** one of the very interesting Turkish mountains is ** Nemrud dagi ** (2 948m nm), as the crater of this volcano fills the beautiful lake of the same name.

Turkey is full of natural beauty. Outside the beautiful coastline and mountains you will also find the remains of volcanic activity or a massive gorges and picturesque waterfalls.

The largest and most important lakes: the largest Turkish lake is Van (1,647 m above sea level) in the east of the country. It is also one of the highest large lakes in the country. The salt lake Tuz Gölü is more of a salary. In the north of the Tautus Mountains lie two beautiful lakes Beyşehir and Eğirdir. Other nice volcanic crater lakes are Acigöl and Meke gölü near the town of Karapinar.

Probably the most famous canyon in Turkey is Saklikent. Among other beautiful gorge include Göynük and Ihlara.

• The highest mountain in Turkey is the mythical mountain ** Great Ararat ** (5,156 m above sea level). This mountain used to belong to Armenia and the Armenians still consider it their own. – In second place is the very little visited mountain ** Uludoruk Tepe ** (4,135 m above sea level) in the Hakari Daglari mountains. – To the north of Lake Van lies the massive volcano ** Süphan Dagi ** (4,061 m above sea level). – The highest mountain in the Pontic Mountains is ** Kaçkar ** (3,937 m above sea level). – The highest mountain of the Taurus Mountains is ** Demirkazik ** (3,756 m above sea level). – In central Anatolia are the highest volcanoes ** Erciyes dagi ** (3,917 m above sea level) and ** Hasan Dagi ** (3,268 m above sea level)