Kaçkar Mountains, Turkey CNN —“Every day you can make a different cheese.
Here is unspoiled, uninterrupted, nature in an area protected by UNESCO for its biodiversity and its traditional ways of life.
Paul Devitt/CNNVillage lifeIn this remote corner of Turkey life continues as it has for generations, with hard-working women the backbone of the home, tending the land and looking after livestock.
Glorious views greet the eye from every window and balcony in this most relaxing of mountain hideaways.
Northeastern Turkey is tea country, with vertiginously planted tea plantations a common sight along the looping mountain roads.
Persons:
Turkey CNN —, ”, Sevda İyem, Iyem, Don’t, ” Iyem, “, CNN's Christina Macfarlane, Paul Devitt, Mevlüt, it’s, I’ve, Maral, İremit Mahallesi, Christina Macfarlane, Stefanie Blendis, Işıl Sarıyüce
Organizations:
Turkey CNN, UNESCO, CNN
Locations:
Kaçkar, Turkey, Turkish, Georgia, Eden, Istanbul, Northeastern Turkey