Life at the mountains is a dream come true, camping overnight brings together possibilities of seeing wild animals like
Bears,wolfs,foxes,jackals,wild boars and various birds.
Village life can make it possible to sample various home cooked food such as traditional DOLMA
Here are some
of the local delicacies, perhaps it’s not everyones cup of tea but its popular in
Turkey, Traditional soup of KELLE PACA
is most famous.
This is a more
natural version of local specialities, the Famous Pekun Honey, it’s amazing to
see bees at work.
My father had 80 beehives,
where we always had honey from.
NO additives, Pure Honey, Organic honey is one of the most popular produces of pekun
Simple life can be joyful, playing with baby animals
Life in Pekun can be such that Money does not buy anything, every one produces
different things and locals can get by, by exchange of different
produce. In this particular location you can actually live without
cash as there are no bills, no post, no official establishments,
the settlement
is in between two mountains where
water was found.
cows coming
home for milking
HIGH STREET OF PEKUN
Enjoying myself with local sharpening stone which is still in use
Locals having fun in front of their traditionally painted house
Riding the
bike in this type of landscape is amazing, we have areas that look like Arizona
in some
parts of Turkey.
Rocky mountains and windy roads can provide amazing ride conditions
GOZELEK Nature’s Marbles, it’s possible to obtain various tools from the forest to play various
games like Cricket or the games normaly played with glass marbles shown above.