I recently came across three hundred slides I had somehow misplaced, all from Doğubeyazit. I scanned them and will be sorting them in with the pictures that are already there, then this gallery will disappear (so do not link to it). Some pictures have been in my gallery for years, I may put in these new scans instead. There will be quite some rearranging to do.

The slides are on Kodachrome and I found it difficult to correct their colours. Also sometimes the exposure was wrong, since the light conditions were sometimes extreme, it was just past winter and for several days each morning there would be showers of hail, later to be followed by ordinary rain, and with a bright sun occasionally peeping though thick cloud. Still, I loved it, the greens on the hills were marvellous, and it was good weather for a strenuous hike. I can imagine that people who know, for instance, Scotland, such conditions are nothing new, and people who went to the Himalayas this will be small fry. Remember I’m from Holland, which is essentially flat. Anything over 300 meters is a mountain to me.
Some pictures are from another holiday with better weather but I think most show the weird landscape near the Ishtak Pasha Saray, which to many travellers is the only reason to visit Doğubeyazit. How they are wrong.