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Dogubeyazit is in Eastern Anatolia. The electricity supply is intermittent.

Contents 1 Get in 2 Get around 3 See 4 Do 5 Buy 6 Eat 7 Drink 8 Sleep 9 Get out

Get in

Get around

You can walk to most places in this fairly small city.

See

• Pasa Sarayi is a palace 5 km outside the city. This ancient fortress/castle/mosque is stunningly beautiful, and is a must see when in Dougbeyazit. Try to go on a dry, sunny day. The old town is near by.

Do

• Climb Mount Ararat on the border of Turkey and Iran, supposedly where Noah's Ark landed. Guides and vehicles are available in the Turkish town in Dogubeyazit; prices informally start at about 300 YTL for one person. The mountain is easy to climb (there is no need for crampons for much of the summer) but you may suffer from the high altitude; the guides have no idea about high altitude medicine and will not stop you if you insist on climbing - people have died. Some tour guides reportedly save on the permission to enter the mountain area and you may get into trouble with the army.

• Go to the Hamam (past the Hotel Esfahan)

Buy

Eat

Try to get an Abdigor kebab. Note that some places will lie and say it is only available on Saturday. If you go on Saturday they will not have it.

Drink

Cafe shop on kermelsi rd in the center of dogubeyazit Pure fruit juice shop,makes nice pure juice! Istanplak avenue eastern dogubeyazit

Sleep

Hotels are numerous but bad, there is no point paying more than about 10-15 YTL for a room as you will not have any benefit from it. Possibly there are some better ones outside the town. It is impossible to find a place in town with air-conditioning.

Hotel Nuh has an impressive lobby area but shabby rooms.

Hotel Esfahan has spacious rooms and a run down lobby area.

Hotel Grand Derya is run down and has intermittent problems with breakfast.

Hotel Urartu is reasonable (under 20 YTL) with friendly staff.

Hotel Tahran was inexpensive at 10 YTL, with surprisingly clean bathrooms.

Get out

Note that it can be difficult to leave after about 14:00 as most busses depart in the morning. There are two bus stops at opposite ends of town: one otogar for distant destinations and one for dolmuses to Van.

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