The Urartian 9th Century BC City Wall by Ishak Pasha Palace, Eastern Turkey

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Only 5kms/3.2 miles (a mere hop and skip) from Dogubeyazit is one of the highlights in Eastern Turkey. Ishak Pasha Palace (also called Isak Pasa/Ishak Pasa, etc) built in the 18th century. It was easy to pick out the Palace mosque complex perched on a terrace as the bus made its way up the mountain.

At the top, the group rushed the lone man selling necklaces and bracelets (shopping deprivation had set in) and then Travels With Sheila casually glanced across the chasm.

Looked once...looked again...and were those walls and towers blending into the hillside? A mix of pale apricot, gold and orange? As eyes adjusted, walls, gates and towers spread across the hills as far back as the eye could see. Urartian city walls dating back to the 9th century B.C.built to protect the trade route to and from Persia.

The powerful Urartian Kingdom once stretched from northern Mesopotamia to the south Caucausus and we'd visit another Urartian fortress tomorrow. Absolutely.... frigging....incredible...with no time to explore them.

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