Once I’d recovered from the tiredness of the night on the bus, the visit to Diyarbakir became very enjoyable. The Kurdish town offers many treasures : seemingly endless ramparts, a 10th-century bridge with ten eyes, a large mosque with a superb courtyard and a remarkable carpet-covered interior, a caravanserial transformed into a souk...
The ten-eyed bridge (ten arches) crosses the Tigris, an immense river that originates in Turkey and flows into the Red Sea after joining the Euphrates 1900 km further on...
After this break, I continue tomorrow towards Batman, then Lake Van...