Solo Traveling to Far East Turkey - Armenia's Border [Ep. 2] 🇹🇷 

My both great grandparents, Armenian, are both from Kars and it is so amazing to see this. Thank you for sharing. Peace to all!

Very grateful for you to visit Ani, a former Armenian great heritage city but now belongs to Turkey. Thanks so much for your visit and bring us updating information.

Hello Adriana from Turkey, First of all, I do not think you are bad person and wish you good luck in your travels.I personally enjoy watching travel channels on youtube and also traveler myself too. I have watched your videos about Turkey travel but with all due respect after watching them it made question what kind of tourist you are for your Turkey videos at least. on 1.32 - 1.41 you mention local language is sounds very different than turkish, but actually everyone in your videos spoken turkish, also I have seen many travel channels and whether they visited asia, africa, america etc none of them dont even mention what language they speak for like %99 of time. Also when I visited a lot of countries and I can speak 3 different languages beside my native turkish and I am someone really intrested in different languages yet I never even metioned my friends etc after returned from said countries when I was sharing my experiences with them. At 7.52 out of blue ' ''This side is Turkey and the other side is Armenia'' and ''In a world without borders you can actually go to Armenia, sadly you can't go to Armenia from Turkey''. Now these would be pretty normal,but the way you mention them so suddenly out of nowhere just plain weird, also your face expressions look rather strange as well, I mean like as if you are an actress at filming a bad actress at that but during the scene you forgot your line and someone behind the scene actually suddenly reminded you to say it, almost like as if you are acting according to some sort of a scenario planned out before hand. A normal tourist would have said more something like ''I want to go to Armenia as well but sadly Turkey - Armenia doesn't have open borders'' and for a fact your english is very good I m sure you are more than capable to express it like that. Between 8.55 - 9.18 You start with ''Can you see the church?'', ''its an armenian looking erh armenian architecture church'' and at the 9.18 you completed giving out information about church's history and again out of blue, out of centext you say this ''and just like that is the border of Armenia'',I mean yeah you describe an church, explain its' history and say go to mention border stuff again. Here is a travel channel, He is from Denmark(one of the top countries as human rights index, he is clever guy who competes international math competitions), his channel SpagettiRoad. ru-vid.com He received a lot of comments from serbians just for visiting Kosovo but respectly explained his reasons and you know he didn't even talked about Bosnia - Kosovo War not because he didn't know about it but because his channel was about his experiences not about history or something else. By all means I m not saying you are not allowed to mention these things and the genocide, but again I definitly not tourist like.The most people who visits Turkey from abroad doesnt go these places, if you search up ''Turkey'' on the google or the internet you would barely find any information and definitly not Turkey's main tourist attractions if your travel log of Turkey was like this first Istanbul then Izmir then Ankara then Cappadocia then black sea region and finally eastern Turkey that would have made a lot of sense but checking your travel track for Turkey, you first visit Istanbul which is very normal then suddenly out of blue decide to go some places that foreigners barely know, let alone visit and make rather strange, sudden comments about them.Also in your Istanbul video again you mention weird stuff, what I mean by weird is non-tourist like and while you are mentioning these stuff, let me tell you, your face, your mimics and your expressions look so fake and phony, at least in my opinion. So long story short the way you mention those stuff made me and a lot of other people think that you have a hidden agenda with these videos but disguise them as something else by mixing with your tourist stuff in my opinion,which is straight up dishonest and sly, if you had named this video ''Former armenian provinces before genocide'' or something along those that would be alright. I dont know why you are doing such underhanded actions, with again the way you mention those stuff you made me and a lot of people think that your Turkey trip ''sponsored'' by someone or some groups or organizations. With all due respect.

Marvellous video. Not the ‘usual’ that we always see. Terima Kasih from Singapore!

This episode was so special to me. 🥺💙

Greetings from Norway. I am so glad I found this channel. Finally a travel channel with a person that is not American or European, and that is not showing off. I love travels to places off the beaten path. I love Indonesia and has been to Jakarta. Keep up the good work!

Syifa! honestly, when i saw the video you sent me when you were on the way, I think the landscape looks amazing but wow, now seeing from birds eye view got me MINDBLOWN!! Watching your video makes me feel like I'm casually listening to sister telling me a story - very friendly + educated... i don't know how to exactly explain the feeling, I hope you understand me!:) anyway, you make me wanna see more of TURKEY ! 🇹🇷

My great great grandfathers and great grandmother were from Kars, who were Armenian. My other great grandmother was from Georgia and eventually they all ended up in Georgia. Amazing to see where they were from even though I am sure much of it is different now. I wish there was peace on earth between all nations, especially for the neighbor nations who have so many things in common. Thanks for sharing such an incredible video. Peace to all!

Hi ! Another great video, thanks ! I never been in that area and I really enjoy 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 😃

It great to see you in Turkey. You are visiting places that I don't even know and hadn't been to. Even for me(I am Turkish), It's really interesting to watch. Stay Safe :))

Great video! Thanks for sharing Syifa 🙏

Nice Video Great Cinematography , Editing , Drone shots , And of course your narration.👌 I always want to see this part of turkey . Keep Going 👍

Wow; I felt like I was right there with you. Very calming but interesting; beautiful work!!

Amazing experience. I really enjoyed your video....Really beautiful!

Thank you for the video, Syifa! Very enjoyable!

You got me inspired girl!!! Cant wait for my own experience and adventure! Take care! 🥰

09:30 Değerli arkadaşlar bu kadın Tüm videolarında inceden saldırı yapıyor!!! Vatansever olan dislike atar... şuanda karstaymış zaten yarın şikayet etmeye gidecem sadece bu söyledikleri için değil başka söylemleride var. Videonun sağ üstündeki 3 noktaya tıklayıp Bildiri açın. daha sonra terorizmi destekliyoru seçin..

you went to a very unique place ,,,thanks for your sharing and your braveness

Great video! Enjoyed it. Thank you

glad to see you on the road

So good to see you back travelling. Kia kaha From NZ.

Hats off to you as a vlogger to go to such places which are very rare in the world. happy vloging 😀.

Wonderful one, Syifa. Thank you. Take care.

❤️❤️❤️ Its really amazing love this episode

This channel is amazing. Love your Videos absolutely!! 👍👏🙂

Love this!

Thank you for sharing your experiences and love from Bangladesh ❤️❤️

Good to see you traveling again! Amazing footage quality👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 Claud

...Cars city in the very east of Turkey, a melting pot of cultures... this is an absolutely beautiful, very atmospheric episode of your travelings, Syifa - I watched it spellbound... you couldn't have done a better job with this one. I love it when you weave your own experiences (smile with your eyes, when wearing a mask) and feelings (missing the smiles of other culture's people) and also some wise words (you fear what you don't know)... its so true... why are we so afraid of what we don't know... traveling like you do, can heal and bridge those gaps, and you documenting your travels helps overcoming those barriers for the watchers... I haven't been to that corner of the world, right at the borders of Europe and Asia, and I fell in love with the landscape and the stillness, that it emanates... and the friendliness of the people you show... so sad that right there are borders that we aren't allowed to cross... I wish that human distortion would be overcome one day, and we can travel like the migrating birds... thank you again, dear Syifa - I loved every second of your clip xx

Loved it loved it loved it ❤️

Hi Syifa, I used to watch your videos when you were still teaching English in Ningxia Province. Glad to see this new video on the eastern part of Turkey, which has rarely been shown! I really enjoyed it!

Thank you for this special video.

Kars has been a Turkish city since 1064. Sultan Alparslan took it from the Eastern Roman Empire..

I went to kars last year in winter, and it was a bad decision because kars winter is freezing cold and I wasn't prepared for this 😅, but it was an amazing experience because I took a sleeping train all the way from ankara to kars and the scenery from the train windows was magical 😍.

Wonderful work, keep them coming 😃

Very nice! I love seeing your vlogs. Taking note of this for my visit soon in Turkey 🙏🏼

I am really enjoying your videos. You have more courage than I do to travel alone, but you visit very interesting places!

Thank you so much for this beautiful and inspiring video! I’ve been to Turkey four times and counting the days to go again! Greetings from Brazil!

Dear Adriana, Watching you after ages. So Beautiful to watching you.

Oh I'm late .. Nyway it feels great to see you back again ❤️👍

HELLO ! SUCH A NICE VLOG AND SO WELL PRESENTED. THANKS.....LOVE FROM MUMBAI, INDIA. 🙏

Thank you so much for sharing this amazing and beautiful video. I love so so much Turkey country and amazing places in Turkey ♥️♥️♥️🙏

just love your vlog always. its beautiful and informative.

great journey. thank for sharing👍👍

Beautiful❤️

Your very inspiring Syifa. Cant wait to also start my solo travel journey. Wasted years waiting for people to be available, but no more.

Thanks so much , nice video , we respect you for your realty

Thanks for this wonderful video... Actually I'm travelling around the world with you, with your amazing videos. Love from Sri Lanka :)

After long time watching your new video. Love from Nepal.

Greetings from Brazil, we visited Ani and other places in Eastern Anatolia in 2016 , the ruined city exceeded our expectations and we had that landscape only for us, because there were no other tourists nearby . Unfortunately the incredible existence of the ruins of Ani is still unknown to many, indeed is an amazing place .

Finally you are back! Great video! Keep going

Your camera captures such sharp, detail images. The information your provide in your clips is so educational.

Amazing travel vlog I ever watched ... your narration is totally beautiful 😍 lots of love from India, Sikkim my small request please do visit sikkim once you will be flaunted if you will see the city 👀

I'm Armenian and Kars is the city where my roots are from😍🇦🇲

Great video

Oh, I enjoyed every bit of it. Lovely! 👍👍

Syifa, God bless you for not only putting together this beautifully shot video of Kars and Ani, highlighting its culturally mixed history, but also for not shying away from its history. Despite the outrage of many Turkish and Azeri people on here, we have reached a point in academic discourse where it is no longer tenable or appropriate to say that the genocide didn't happen. Enough evidence has come to light, enough scholars have examined and written about the subject, and enough countries have recognised it, and no matter how much Turkey and nationalist Turks protest, the evidence and concensus won't change or disappear. If you liked Kars and Ani, you would absolutely adore Armenia - if you do go, be sure to visit Khor Virap, the pagan temple of Garni, Tatev Monastery, Lake Sevan, the "Armenian Switzerland" known as Dilijan, and of course, Yerevan, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth. Literally thousands of years of history contained in a very small place.

Places are beautiful and unique, hearing one feelings in experiencing being there is gold.

You are Great and honest solo traveler. Thanks for help and provided info.

Great 👍🏽 video documentary! Unusual and not frequently visited place in our world. Thanks 🙏🏽

You are not all solo solo, we are kinda with you.

Well said “smile is the universal language “ lots of love you.

Nice to see you back.

Enjoyed your travel video in eastern Turkey, Thank you.

Beautiful ❤️🙏

Love your videos, Syifa. They are getting better and better. I hoped you will travel to Armenia and African countries too in coming future. Would love if you also show more of your country especially Sulawesi, Timor and Papua coz I would love to visit those parts of Indonesia that's not popular like Jakarta and Bali. Keep traveling, make memories, spread kindness and joy wherever you go. 👍👍 Looks like Turkey series is going to be really lit 😀

much appreciate your braveness as a solo traveler... Love from sri lankan

Such an amazing video and awesome explanation from you. Thank you for sharing this.

Greetings from Ecuador ! You should come to Ecuador someday !

We really enjoyed this again Syifa. Such an interesting part of the world we've never been to. Love the Armenian church from the 13th century! Great music also. You must tell us where you got the music from next time we chat! 😊

Beautiful work. I enjoyed 💗

Wonderful. Many thanks.

the ottoman did not massacre , incorrect information , Everyone blamed the ottoman

You said that the Ottomans massacred the Armenians. Do you have one official document?

Thank you!

i learn and activating my english words by watching your videos syifa, thanks for making this kind of video. this is really entertaining

When you come to turkey foreign friends, please do not allow for much pedestrian traffic is congested in turkey walking onto the car. WE LOVE YOU ALL 😂❤👋

Thank You For this wonderful brth taking VIEWS 😍😍Viva Armania

Thanks for sharing 💕

WOW!!! You have taken us to places most of us would likely never go to or would have seen, thank you. The ruins at the border with Armenia hurts the most. That was once a thriving city completely destroyed. If nothing it is now a graveyard/crime scene as wars always create both. At least they are at peace - hence the quietness of the place. Stay safe.

First of all I would like to apologize for always attending onto your videos very lately. Not because I am lazy or busy, but more like I need to prepare my heart, my emotions and my feelings because of the way you present these videos very touching which I am easily carried away by them. I’m literally shedding tears for some reasons. No further comments about Turkey or elsewhere inside of the country since I’ve never been there before, just want to share my impressions in regard to this. Keep spreading positivity, be kind and be happy wherever you are. Terima kasih yaa!

And if you are already traveling to Turkey from Indonesia, you will get better information / feedback about the areas from where you shoot videos as a RU-vidr. Until 30 years ago, Kars had a very colorful mix of peoples as well as the Caucasus bordering Kars including Baltic / Germans, Orthodox Russians (Molokans / Douchaborze and other ethnic groups) with the majority of Turks (Kyptschak, Karapapak and Azeri Turks) and yes but also Kurds as a minority. If you say or claim in your video that the language around Kars is mostly Kurdish, then that is either consciously or just ignorance. The same would be if I were to shoot a video in Jakarta and claim that the majority there speak Mandarin or Indian, in Diyarbakır, Ağrı, Batman etc, the majority language is Kurdish. U d it is very interesting to see that Kurds from Iraq / Syria etc are interested in Kars as well as in the comments here. IMMEDIATELY CORRECT this video in the context of "Majority Language". Kind regards

Good to see you Syifa keep smiling and keep travelling all the best

Loved your enthusiasm 😊

Seeing Ani filled my soul, thank you for this

I really love your videos 🥰 They are different than others travelers videos ,because you show the less visited parts of the country which is very interesting to me 🙏 Keep up the good work

Nice video. These are the kind of places i like to see.

Loved it!

I am completely spellbound by the magnificent views of Kars City and the far eastern region of Turkey, including the historically significant Ani ruins spread over a vast area of tranquil land. Syifa's presentation is, as always, very very impressive and the background music is also thrilling. Yes, this is indeed a very special episode!

Great video! My wife and I really love your off the beaten path approach!

Stay safe Syifa❤

Awesome video..... this part of the world looks pretty amazing..... great job...... keep healthy, keep it safe, keep traveling..... thanks for uploading this video... Kudos to you

💚 from Armenia. And thanks for what your are doing! Your history knowledge is really good 😘

Kars is my hometown. In Kars, generally people talking Terekeme Turkish which is similar to Azebaijan Turkish. 😊

Love watching your videos.

Love Turkey ❤️

Nice video 👍. lots of love from Nepal to beautiful sister.

Good to see you back 😘 keep going

I just came across your this video and found it really interesting. You have a very soft personality and I wish you all the good luck to your endeavour.

Oh wow, you’ve earned my deepest and lifelong respect by mentioning what appears to be a very sensitive subject 🙏🏻👍 Everybody knows what happened but apparently many people still are in heavy denial (most likely because they were thaught that way in school, so you can hardly blame them). Lovely video, great filming and editing. And what a beautiful scenery, just fabulous! Take care, till the next one!