The Awe-inspiring Taurus Mountains [Toros Dağları] of Turkey
Photo by Zeynel Cebeci
Three weeks without internet starts off as a challenge in this day and age.
Then you relax and simply enjoy the holiday. Especially when staying in a rather remote corner of the Taurus Mountains, where there is so much to explore.
One day we travelled for an hour along a mountain road, through villages clinging precariously to the hillsides, to reach a Trout Restaurant. The trout are in tanks fed by a spring. Downhill, on a level patch of land is the open air restaurant, well shaded by plane trees and bounded by a river.
The meal of freshly grilled trout, chips and various salads,
tastes delicious in the fresh air.
We sit on long benches, with cushions - [or else there are hammocks] -as the diners take a siesta after the meal. The sound of the river burbling past is a lullaby, and there are butterflies dancing in the branches that wave gently overhead.
Kirkpinar Trout Restaurant, Alihoca Koy, Pozanti.
After the siesta, the restaurant owner brings tea and a plate of fruit from his garden.
Who cares about internet, anyway.
