Super pretty video of Trabzon! Definitely one of the best 🙌 covering all type of landscapes from high above the plateaus to down the Black Sea! 💜 goed gedaan!
@@caspartromp1017 May I ask you how you prepared for this trip? It is hard to get quality in depth information on Trabzon online (or in print). I think even many residents of the city don't know all these places... :)
@@i.k.8868 Very true, it is hard to find good travel information before hand, and the city or province of Trabzon itself does not have useful signs either. The positive side is though that you will find the city and region quite authentic and local, you will have it more for yourself as it is off-the-beaten-path. I just did tons of google, google maps and youtube searches and browsings on Trabzon and saving that information somewhere. I was particularly interested in the city's Byzantine history and heritage, and that also often guided my search. For a destination like Trabzon, it is worthwile doing indeed lots of research and planning beforehand to not feel lost when you are there.
So many ruins, this city is just begging for Byzantine enthusiasts to visit. And the ending is lovely, I'm glad they still keep the Pontic lyra alive in Trabzon. Are the villages shown in the video still inhabited today?
Thanks for your comment! And yes, these villages are still inhabited, even if the real isolated ones. The somehow crumbling historic villages used to be inhabited by Pontic Greeks before the population exchange a hundredyears ago, and are now inhabited by Turkish people. Some of the really higher villages are still used by transhumance pastoralists, ascending the mountains with their flocks in summer and descending again to the lower valleys in winter. Just like in the time of the Empire of Trebizond, when Trapezuntines and Turkic tribes were quarreling over the use of these high plateaus.
