Visit to the Salt Lake (Tuz Golu)
Right after our lunch at Anit Lezzet , we headed off to the Salt Lake or Tuz Golu in Turkish , which means saline lake. We actually walked to Tuz Golu from the back of a souvenir shop. It was the only souvenir shop that we had to pay to use its toilet. There is a path from the shop leading to the lake. There was nothing much to it until I discovered that I was standing on the second largest lake in Turkey and one of the biggest salt lake in the world as well. I read that it covers a huge area of 1500 square kilometers and a large proportion of Turkey’s salt requirements were met by the lake. Are you are wondering why there are flamingos with the signage too? I read that in spring you can see Flamingos there. As a colony of them has made Tuz Golu its home , the region is now a protected area under the Tuz Lake Integrated Conservation Management Plan . If you would like to see flamingos, you will have to visit Tuz Gölü in...