Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
For Ayder and the Kaçkar Mountains, catch a Hopa-bound bus and change at Pazar. If you
miss the daily bus to Kars (
"
40, 10 hours), take one of the regular buses to Hopa or Erzur-
um for more services.
Car
You can hire a car to pick up, or drop off, in Trabzon or at the airport through
Economy
sim Caddesi)
,
Europcar
(
444 1399;
www.europcar.com.tr
; Cikmaz Sokak 1a loor, 38, of Kundur-
acılar Caddesi)
and
National
(
325 3252;
www.nationalcar.com.tr
)
.
Getting Around
A taxi to the airport, 5.5km east of the centre, costs about
"
25.
A taxi between the otogar (bus station), 3km east of the port, and Atatürk Alanı costs
around
"
15.
Sumela Monastery
The Greek Orthodox
Monastery of the Virgin Mary
(admission
"
8; 9am-7pm)
at Sumela,
46km south of Trabzon, clings improbably to a sheer rock wall, high above evergreen
forests. It's a mysterious place, especially when mists swirl in the tree-lined valley below
and the call of a hidden mosque drifts ethereally through the forest. The monastery was
founded in Byzantine times and abandoned in 1923, after the creation of the Turkish Re-
public quashed local Greek aspirations for a new state.
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