Natural wonders your thing? Southern Turkey’s migrating birds and sinkholes are not to be missed
The Turkish area of Mersin is a key cease for migrating birds and is considered one of Anatolia’s main religion centres.
On this episode of Discover, Cinzia Rizzi discovers the Southern Turkish district of Mersin, which is on the Mediterranean coast. We begin our journey at Tarsus – one of many oldest cities on the planet and the hometown of Saint Paul.
Round 80km west of Mersin is Silifke, the place Cinzia visits some spectacular pure phenomena. Two sinkholes, referred to as Cennet and Cehennem, or Heaven and Hell, stretch down 70 metres and 128 metres respectively. They have been fashioned through chemical erosion hundreds of years in the past when an underground stream brought on the cave ceilings above them to break down. The Heaven sinkhole can simply be explored through 450 steps that lead down into its depths, whereas the Hell sinkhole can solely be accessed with climbing tools or from a glass viewing platform.
The sinkholes aren’t the one pure beauties discovered within the area. Our final cease is the Göksu Delta – a basin of 15,000sq km the place the Göksu River meets the Mediterranean. This wild and windy wetland is considered one of 18 Particular Environmental Safety Areas in Türkiye, with round 350 chook species stopping right here on their journey throughout the Levant. If you’re into birdwatching, that is undoubtedly a spot you need to go to.
