Monday, 11 August 2008

Turkey Forest Fire Revisited

I mentioned in an earlier post that DD and I had just returned from Turkey and that we'd witnessed a terrible forest fire, well, I've now managed to work out how to add photos so here are some pictures...

It started early afternoon, we had been sitting on the villa terrace having lunch and admiring the clearest and bluest sky any of us had seen in a long time when we noticed a small, and I mean really small plume of smoke, it looked so insignificant at first nothing more than smoke from a chimney. It was only so noticeable because everything else was so clear. Within an hour it looked like this...
By evening it was looking far worse, the lights in the foreground are from the village of Tasagil and to the left the flames have reached Aspendos a beautiful Roman ampitheatre.

Thousands of acres of national forest have been destroyed in an area known for it's outstanding natural beauty, turquoise river and white water rafting. My sister and my nephews were rafting here only the day before.


DD kept asking me whether we were watching a volcano.


By this stage I was phoning home to check our buildings insurance!


The fire continued for at least another 6 days, kept moving by strong winds and low humidity. I really hope it's out now.

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