Regionen · Kapitel 8
Black Sea Coast
The Turkish Black Sea coast is the country's best-kept secret — a green, mountainous world of tea plantations, hazelnut groves, misty valleys, and a monastery clinging to a 300-meter cliff. Hardly any international tourists venture here, which is precisely what makes it so appealing. Those seeking the "other Turkey" beyond beaches and antiquity will find it here.
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Trabzon
Trabzon — the ancient Trapezunt — is the metropolis of the eastern Black Sea coast and was once the terminus of the Sil…
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Sumela Monastery (Sümela Manastırı)★★★
The Sumela Monastery is one of the most spectacular structures in Turkey — and the world. Clinging to a 300-meter-high…
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Ayder & Kaçkar Mountains★★
The Kaçkar Mountains in the hinterland of the eastern Black Sea coast are Turkey's trekking paradise — rugged, wild, an…
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Uzungöl
Uzungöl (Long Lake) is a small mountain lake at an altitude of 1,090 m, surrounded by dense fir forests and steep mount…
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Tea Plantations of Rize
The province of Rize is the tea capital of Turkey — and one of the country's most unusual landscapes. The steep slopes…
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Practical Information for the Black Sea Coast
Getting There Flight: Trabzon (TZX) is directly connected from Istanbul (1h 40, Turkish Airlines/Pegasus, from 400 ₺).…
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