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Green valleys in front of Mount Nemrut, which can be seen in the far right of the picture [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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We stayed in the small village of Karadut. This is the road from Narince to Karadut [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Karadut Pension in the small village of Karadut [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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It is winter time, so the road up to Nemrut is not entirely open. But we are lucky, we only have to walk the last 5 km [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Mt Nemrut lies in the background. In the foreground you see the road up the mountain, which is completely covered in snow [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Mt Nemrut is a very sppacial mountain in the eastern part of Turkey. It holds the remains of statues that are more than 2000 years old [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Walking uphill through the snow is an tiring activity. But we had a goal in mind: seeing the famous statues of Mt Nemrut [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Mt Nemrut is with 2150 m the highest mountain in the region and from the top you have great views over the surrounding mountains [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Antiochus I Epiphanus was the king of the region (ruled 64-38 BC). He took himself very serious and ordered to built huge statues, not of himself alone, but also the gods he admired, on Mt Nemrut [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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The heads on Mt Nemrut are around 2 metres high [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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View on surrounding mountains seen from Mt Nemrut [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Antiochus I Epiphanus was king of a kingdom that was a buffer zone between the Romans and the Parthians and found himself an important person. Huge statues, both of himself and the gods he admired, were built in Mt Nemrut [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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The statues on Mt Nemrut are divided over two terraces, the eastern terrace and the western terrace. We arrived in the afternoon, so the western terrace was covered in sunshine [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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We were extremely lucky when we visited Mt Nemrut. Normally, the mountain is covered in a thick layer of snow during the winter, but this winter was extremely mild. So, the statues were (partly) visible [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Ivonne capturing some of the huge stone heads on film [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Close up of an ancient stone heard on the western terrace of Mt Nemrut [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Some of the stone heads are only partly visible due to the snow [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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We were so lucky to have a clear and sunny day on Nemrut Mountain, in the middle of the winter. But the wind was strong, making it very cold [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Us, posing with a stone head on Mt Nemrut [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Time to descend Mt Nemrut again because to sun is going to set. And when the sun is gone, the temperature drops significantly on the mountain [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Yeni Kale castle [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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We spent the second day on Mt Nemrut in the Arsemia region. We had to cross a pass of 1500 metres where it was snowing [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Rainy weather at the Karakus Tumulus, a burial mount that dates back to 36 BC [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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The Cendere Bridge, a 2nd century Roman Bridge in the foothills of Mt Nemrut [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Our Land Cruiser on a rainy day in the beautiful landscape of Mt Nemrut [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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A surviving Seljuk Bridge in the Nemrut area [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Rocky landscape in the Mt Nemrut area [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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A large stele in Arsameia depicting Mithras (or Apollo), the sun god earing a cap with sunrays radiating from it [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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Ivonne is filming the stone stele of Apollo in the Arsameia ruin complex [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
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A skinny dog in Arsameia begging for food [Mt Nemrut / Turkey]
