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I took some pictures in the hotel garden before breakfast. There were bee eaters, hoopoes and warblers about. |
 Robinia pseudacacia |
 Bottom of the garden |
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| We drove to the Ishak Palace in the morning and wandered around the rooms, some restoration work was being done. | |||||||||||||||
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 Mosque |
 Dwelling |
We went on to the Cilli Pass also known as the Cotton Pass |
 Fabaceae vicia? and a closer view  |
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 Gypsophila pulvinaris |
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 Scorzonera mollis |
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 Coronilla? |
 Onobrychis cornuta |
 Thistle |
 These leaves had deep purple shading |
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 Matthiola odorantissima |
 Androsace villosa |
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 Tulipa julia |
 Crucifer |
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 Tulipa julia |
 Tulipa julia |
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 Trifolium pratense |
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 Dwelling |
 Village |
 Nonea melanocarpa |
 Reseda lutea |
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Gladiolus atroviolaceous - beetles were present in the bells, perhaps to escape the weather or to spend the night under cover |
 Orchis coriophora - bug orchid |
 Pink form of polygala anatolica |
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Muscari caucasicum |
 Thistle |
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 Olive |
 There was some wonderful light |
In September 1892 a meteor fell onto the Bozalt
Plaeau -2 Km north of the Gurbalak Border in Eastern Turkey.
The crater is 35 m in diameter and is the second largest in the
world. The biggest one is in Alaska. With
time the meteor has become covered in mud. |
 Zygophyllum fabago by Peter |
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 The crater was home to jackdaws
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 Orobanche cernua |
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