Giresun Travel Guide

عن المكان

Kuşköy's Whistling Language, Kuzalan, and the Hazelnut Coast. Giresun is the Black Sea province most people pass through on the way to Trabzon. That is the mistake. The interior here has more nature parks per square kilometre than any single itinerary can absorb, and one village in particular speaks a language you cannot find anywhere else on Earth. The province takes its name from kerasos , the Greek for cherry, Giresun is supposedly where the first cherry tree to make it to Rome came from in 74 BC, brought by the general Lucullus. The agriculture has changed since then. Today Giresun sits at the heart of Turkey's hazelnut belt. Turkey produces around 70% of the world's hazelnuts, most of it along this eastern Black Sea coast, and the Giresun Tombul variety is the most prized of them all. The upper slopes are organised around tea, dairy, and the village rhythms of the eastern Black Sea. The seven stops below are inland, with one final return to the coast. Take them as a two-day loop. The road climbs and twists, so allow more time than a map suggests. 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 waterfall, a viewing platform, and forests that go on. 1 min read Kuzalan sits inland from Dereli, about forty-five kilometres up from Giresun on the coast, deep in the kind of beech-and-spruce forest that the eastern Black Sea does better than anywhere else in Türkiye. The main draw is the waterfall, a long, multi-stage drop you can view from a series of platforms cantilevered out over the gorge. The walk down from the upper parking area to the lower viewing platform takes about twenty minutes on a wooden boardwalk. The return up takes longer. Wear shoes you can actually walk in. The forest itself is what stays with you. You come for the waterfall and end up sitting on a bench listening to the wind move through several million leaves at once.

معلومات سريعة

المدينة

غيرسون

العنوان

غيرسون، تركيا