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The beautiful Turkish wonder you've probably never heard of


The beautiful Turkish wonder you ve probably never heard of
Startlingly blue Lake Van is one of Turkey’s best-kept secrets
Akdamar is the jewel in Lake Van’s tourism crown
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Fringed by tawny-hued peaks soaring to 13,000ft, startlingly blue Lake Van, an inland sea seven times larger than Lake Geneva, is one of Turkey’s best-kept secrets. Given that this intriguingly beautiful high-altitude (5,380ft above sea level) lake lies almost a thousand road miles east of the fleshpots of Turkey’s economic and cultural capital of Istanbul, it’s not surprising that relatively few Turks make it out here, let alone foreigners, who flock instead to the country’s Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. ....

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