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@ GlobalTraces
2025-05-03 05:28:35
Pre-dawn from the top of Mt Nemrut, Turkey.
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow” Anita Desai
It’s certainly true that Mount Nemrut became part of us. Most tourists go in and up the west side but personally we’d recommend going in the east side… why? Because the roads getting there are some of the most stunning we’ve driven anywhere, and because you can then drive the dirt track until you’re almost all the way to the statues at the top - It’s steep, a bit rutted and quite narrow in places!
The most popular times to go to the top are sunrise and sunset and it’s easy to see why - it’s spectacular, with the 8-9m high statue bodies and 2-3m high statue heads bathed in beautiful light. But photographers…you’re better off looking out from the mountain because there will be so many people up there with you, getting a shot without their shadows falling all over the statues is an exercise in significant restraint and patience!
But take a long lens with you and look for gorgeous light and patterns in the surrounding mountains.
History lesson: built for King Antiochus of Commagene, it’s a 2134m high mountain and one of the highest peaks in the east of the Taurus Mountains. It is assumed to be a royal tomb dating from the first century BC.
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