The City
Six Minarets on the Seyhan
The Sabancı Merkez Camii is enormous, modern, and the thing you will see first from almost anywhere in the centre.
Adana and the Çukurova
The CityThe Stone Bridge Is Still Carrying Traffic
A working Turkish city on a wide river, an hour from the Mediterranean and almost entirely undisturbed by tourism. Notes in English on what is here and how to go about it.
The City
The City
Food
Adana Kebabı, and What Comes With It
The city's export. Ordering it here is not quite the same transaction as ordering it anywhere else.
Food
Şalgam Is Not Optional
Fermented turnip juice, served cold, dark red, and the standard accompaniment to everything grilled.
The City
The Çukurova Plain in Summer
Flat, fertile, extremely hot, and the reason the city is where it is.
Districts
Kozan and the Castle Above It
A fortress on a ridge north of the plain, with a great deal of history and almost no visitors.
Getting Around
Four Rooms and a Kitchen
How we stopped booking hotel rooms for family trips, and what changed when we did.
Getting Around
Getting Around Without Turkish
Adana is not a tourist city, which is most of its charm and the source of nearly all the friction.
Districts
The Viaduct at Karaisalı
A stone railway bridge on enormous arches, thrown across a gorge north of the city.
Getting Around
When to Come
There are two good seasons here and one that will make you regret the whole enterprise.