Ilgaz National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Ilgaz National Park
No matter living how far, every Turk—even if some may not even know its exact whereabouts—will immediately recognize the name of Ilgaz, due to a popular school song beginning with the lineIlgaz, thou art a sublime mountain of Anatolia. The national park is centred on the Ilgaz mountain range, which sits right on the geographical and ecological border between the gently rollingBlack Sea Regionto north and the windswept hills ofCentral Anatoliato south. Its immensely verdant spruce forests are easily distinguishable no matter which direction you are approaching from, but they are in an especially stark contrast with the dusty plains and hills to south—if you were just passing through, you could swear you saw that solid line which divides what is called as "the sea of trees" in Turkish (ağaç
Ilgaz National Park Travel Guide Sections
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