Ordu Travel Guide

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Boztepe Cable Car, Perşembe Plateau, and the Black Sea Coast. Ordu does not announce itself. It is one of those Black Sea cities where the coast and the highlands are joined by a single road, and the best way to see it is to drive that road slowly. The city sits where the Melet River reaches the sea, and the geography behind it rises fast. Within twenty minutes inland you are at five hundred metres. Within an hour you are above the cloud line on plateaus that have been summer pasture for centuries. The coast itself is long and uneven, with hazelnut groves running right up to the beach in some places and stretches of black sand and round pebbles in others. Ordu rewards travellers who arrive without a fixed plan. The seven stops below cover the things we'd actually drive a friend to. They are not in any official order. Take them in a loop over two days and you will have seen the city more honestly than most weekend visitors do. And if you want to see these places in motion before you go, there are a few of our own films from the region further down the page. A quiet glacial lake above the hazelnut belt. 1 min read Uluğöl is the kind of place locals know about and most visitors miss. It sits in a forested basin south of Ordu, the lake reflecting the trees so cleanly that on still mornings you can't tell where the water ends and the forest begins. A short loop walk circles the shore. The drive in is half the point. You leave the coast highway, climb through hazelnut orchards, pass a few mountain villages where someone is always selling honey by the side of the road, and end up at a parking area that gives no sign that a lake is sitting fifty metres behind the trees. Then you walk through them and there it is. Bring a picnic. There are a few wooden benches but no proper restaurant on site, which is part of why the place stays as quiet as it does.

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