This is what they say or the remains to the Ark of prophet Noah behind me is Iran.That's the border right there and I am in eastern Turkey close to the city called Dogubeyazit and in this post we'll explore this fascinating ancient part of the world.
so it's 2 30 p.m and I am on the very eastern end of
Turkey and I’m trying to hitchhike to this city called Gerbalek because
there are no buses going there. Let's see if this works out so I found
some sweet guys who are giving me a ride to the city and then they just
stopped on the side because we're right next to mount Ararat
which is the biggest mountain in Turkey and the most famous one for sure not
entirely sure what's going on but looks like we're stopping for fruits
here the people in the car, they are this Kurdish (family) and they brought me to this
place and we had a lot of watermelons. They forced me to eat
watermelons and other fruits and now the guy in front of me is
showing me where they grow their fruits
what's your name? huh? Ahmed. Ahmed.
I just came to the border and I was expecting a little
bit of a small town here with people selling contraband stuff from
Iran but that doesn't seem to be the case because all I have behind
me is the border crossing and nothing else there and I can't really film
there Cops told me not to. So I was trying to hitchhike back and I couldn't
really find a ride because there's not a lot of cars at the border so I
just found a taxi because it's getting late and I want to get to
Ishak Pasha palace. With me is Saleem.
I met him at the
border. He's from Dogubeyazit okay so right now I’m in Ishak Pasha palace
which is probably one of the most important architectural sites in this
whole region. It's a very very interesting place because it looks like
ottoman architecture but it's also got a lot of Middle Eastern or
especially Iranian influences on it and that's very evident in the arches
and the domes that you see here. Y ou don't really see that in any
other ottoman palace at least that I’ve been to so the construction of this
palace was started around 1685 by the Kurdish chiefs that
ruled
this area and it was finished around a hundred years
later by another Kurdish chief and an ottoman general named Ishak pasha
after whom this palace was named. It was used for a fort for a long
time after that. During world war one even the Russians used this as a
military fort and because of that it suffered a lot of damage from
gunfire during the war and then even after the war up until 1937 this place was still used as a military
fort.
Right now it's more of a museum but it's definitely
worth the visit. S o obviously the interior architecture of the
palace is very cool and very unique but the best view for me is not from
inside but from outside the palace where you can see the whole
palace against the backdrop of this empty wide landscape of the Middle
East and it looks especially cool during sunset time
today I’m gonna go to this... so today I’m gonna go to
the site whose importance is of biblical proportions but for that I
gotta head over 30 kilometers southeast of the city that way
so right now I’m at the visitor center of the Noah's
Ark national park in eastern Turkey right next to Iran and this
place right in front of me is what a lot of people believe are the
remains of prophet Noah's Ark. So let me tell you the full story. In
1959 a Turkish army officer was on an air force reconnaissance mission for
NATO in this part of Turkey and he noticed this structure that looked
very interesting and looked like a ship and for a long time people had sort of
believed
this guy came along named David Fasold who sort of
changed the game. He was a US Merchant Marine officer and a salvage expert
and he came out on an expedition here. So he brought a radar to
look at what's inside it and he said he found an iron structure
that's about the same size as Noah's ark was supposed to be in the
bible. He also claimed that the locals around this region called
one of the peaks of these mountains to be al-judi He linked that to mount Judi which according
to the
Quran is also supposed to be the resting place of
Noah's ark. Even more interestingly David Fasold famously found these
stones which were these huge upright stones with holes in them that
kind of look like drogues which are anchors used in ancient ships
and a lot of these stones had been found in the Mediterranean and the Nile
as well and these were basically stones used as anchors to sort of
keep a ship or arc stable during a
large storm. So after he went on that expedition he wrote a book called
The Ark of Noah in 1989 which was pretty popular and it started a
lot more expeditions into this area for people trying to confirm whether
this is indeed
Noah's ark or even a ship. So Turkey turned this place
into Noah's Ark National Park and a lot of people believe this is
indeed the Ark of Prophet Noah but that's not what everyone believes.
That's not what a lot of geologists believe. That's not even what a
lot of creationists or religious people believe. They just think it's a
scam and this is probably not a ship and that even if this was
a ship this can't be the Ark of
prophet Noah because
it's supposed to be somewhere else according to
religious scriptures. Now what do I believe about all of this? From the
little research that I have seen, I’m gonna go with the geologists who think that
this is just a structure that happens to look like a ship and it's a very
interesting structure and the landscape around here is pretty cool
so this place is definitely worth a visit but to me I don't think this is
Noah's ark. If you think otherwise and if I don't know anything feel
free to correct me in the comments but to me that's probably not a
ship
So I am at the Visitor's center with Ahmed
and Mehmet. They gave
me chai. Think I am gonna head back now
okay so the view on the way down from this site is
actually even better than the views on the way up ,It's pretty beautiful.
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