SUNDAY
27TH |
We left Dogubeyazit and drove around the lake to Tat
Van at the western end. |

Adonis eriocalycina |

Geranium tuberosum
John and Karen in a field filled with
geraniums prospecting for butterflies
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Wasp |

Buttercup |

Pale blue borage |

Adonis eriocalycina |

Linum austriacum
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Ixiolirion tartaricum |
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Sűphan Daği 4058m high |

Dactylorrhiza umbrosa |

Polygala anatolica |

Primula auriculata |

Dactylorrhiza |

Orchids in the field |

Pink form |

Lizard |

Green toad |
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Nepeta meyeri? |

Speedwell the best blue of any plant |

Washing the laundry by the river |
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We stopped in a town to buy the picnic food, some of us tried to
snap the passers by

Shop photographed by George from the mini bus |

Boys and Girls together |

Boys |

From our picnic site |

Anchusa |

Hypericum |

Fumitory asepala |

Centaurea depressa |

Glaux maritima
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Alkana orientalis
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What a sky! Sűphan Daği again |

By Aran Lake with White headed ducks an endangered species, a stop for the birders |
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We
found many orchids in some damp meadows |
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Dandelion seed head |

Hyocyamus niger |

Water heating device
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Roof access |

View of the mountains with an odd striping on the sea.
Spindly poplars on the right |
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We crossed a railway line and arrived at a new ski hotel, above the
lake and below the Nemret Dagi volcano |