2025 Bogazkale Travel Guide: Must-see attractions, popular food, hotels, transportation routes (updated in October)

#adventuremoments #travel #turkiye #travel #türkiyetravel #ancient_city #Ancient #thingstodo #myitinerary #museums #ancienttomb Yazilikaya is an ancient Hittite sanctuary hidden in a Rock Temple. The galleries of the reliefs are easy to follow and the entrance to the large ravine is to the left of the temple foundations. The strange and evocative inscriptions are very unusual. The fashions of the gods and goddesses depicted are unlike Greek, Roman or Egyptian. There are a vast array of Hittite deities wearing strange shoes, hats and clothing. In the smaller ravine is a ‘sword god’ with lions heads and sun depictions. A truly remarkable adventure and no crowds! Fantastic opportunity for artists and designers particularly in textiles and fashion! As a lone female I was perfectly safe and the guardian of the site was very helpful. There is a small craft market where you can buy craft items made locally🏛️ The images are captured on the site and present the remarkable reliefs that the visitor can see. The site may have been an important stop point on the Silk Road and this was a purposeful visit. 🕰️Business Hours: 9-5pm 💰Average Price per Person: £5 entrance and I combine the trip with Hattusa. 🏖️Ambiance/Facilities: a fabulous experience of an ancient Hittite Sanctuary without the crowds! 💞Reasons to Recommend: A fantastic opportunity for artists and designers to paint and draw and collecting inspiration. 💞Reasons to Recommend: A positive experience for getting in the step count! 💞Reasons to Recommend: Amazing archeological insight into the ancient Hittite Sanctuary

#adventuremoments #ancient #turkey #travel #hittites #museums #thingstodo #myitinerary #thingstodo #off-road#ancient_city #Off #ancientcity #art #turkishgem #turkish #Ancient #tripmoments Hattusa is a very impressive and significant ancient city of the Hittite Empire. Very remote in beautiful countryside it is an exciting visit. The Lions Gate so so impressive and larger than I expected it to be. Your imagination is set alight by the vastness of the site. The site dates to before 2000BC and many of the artefacts found are in the Anatolian Museum in Ankara. In Bogazkale there is a very impressive museum with many objects from the site. A fantastic inspiring place to visit if you are an artist and designer as you can paint and sketch on site. There are no crowds of tourists here, it’s an amazingly remote spot where you can explore. The images show much of the site, The Great Temple, Lions Gate, Earth Gate, kings Gate and great Fortress. I especially enjoyed the carved gods and warrior kings, very ancient. Really off the beaten track, a special visit for brave travellers 📍Address: Southeast of modern Bogazkale. Access on foot. Take a taxi from Sungurlu to Bogazkale. How to get around: I got a bus from Central Ankara bus station to Sungurlu, then a taxi to site from the bus station. Take plenty of cash and be ready to haggle! Must-see attractions: Hattusa Ancient City, Bogazkale Museum, Yazilikaya. Hotel guide: I stayed in central Ankara: Radisson Blue Shopping guide: gift shops in Yazilikaya for books, postcards and small sculptures of the ancient artwork 🏖️Ambiance/Facilities: no crowds or tourists. 💰Average Price per Person: public transport cost around £10 return from Ankara. Haggle for a taxi to take you to the site £20-30 Site entrance £3.00 🕰️Business Hours: 9-6pm 💞Reasons to Recommend: An amazing experience for travellers interested in Ancient Cities 💞Reasons to Recommend: get your step count for the day! A very long walk around the site and museum 💞Reasons to Recommend: great for painting and drawing! So inspiring!

A very niche world cultural heritage site, Hattuşaş, the capital of the Hittite Kingdom, is located in the mountains 200 kilometers east of Ankara, the capital of Turkey. The huge ancient city is scattered in Bogazkale, Sungurlu, Anatolian Plateau. There is no direct public transportation, which gives local black cars and taxis a lot of monopoly space. It is most convenient to drive by yourself, or rent a car or charter a car. In addition, public transportation is also OK, which takes a little effort. 🚌 Departing from Ankara: 1. Buy a ticket to Sungurlu on the second floor of Ankara Bus Station (you can get there by bus) 40-44, and then go to the platform to wait for the bus. The bus may change the platform temporarily, and the driver will come to call everyone. I also watch it and ask if there is no bus when it is almost time. It costs 290 lira to come back, with snacks and drinks. It costs 250 when I went there, only drinks. So the price is different, and the time and company are different. 2. It is said that you can take a minibus to Bogazkale (31 kilometers) when you arrive at the station, but it is unreliable. I didn't know how to get a taxi, so I asked at the station. There were taxis at the door, but we couldn't communicate because they didn't speak English. Finally, we negotiated a price and took a taxi to the heritage site, but we were taken to a small place. Then the driver persuaded us to charter a car for sightseeing. How big is the big attraction? Then we chartered it, including sending back to the station. Actually, you can walk slowly, but you will be tired from climbing the hill. If you are afraid of being tired, you can charter a car. 🤴🏻 When we arrived at the destination, there was no one except the one who collected the entrance fee (70 lira). There were few tourists. We saw a few people intermittently inside. The Hittites settled here in 2000 BC. It was once one of the four major empires in the Middle East at that time. The carvings, temples, cities, lion gates, sphinx gates, and king gates from more than 3,000 years ago are still there. A huge green jade stone in the Great Temple is shiny and shiny, which is the most conspicuous and special. The reliefs of the twelve gods of hell of the Hittites seen in the small ruins I met two groups of American old men 👨🏻‍🦳 and old ladies 🧓. Some of them couldn't walk well, while others were still playing with sticks. They were great and I need to learn from them. ❗Songulu is not a place worth staying in. You can just go back to Ankara for a day trip. Leave as early as possible. ❗It is said that there is also Boǎazkale Museum, which contains artifacts unearthed from Hattusa. I forgot to go there. ❗All transportation and locations can be checked on Google Maps.