You should sip Rayki slowly and it is recommended to drink it with snacks such as cucumber and dill yogurt or fried Hamsi. It is very strong and 1 part is usually mixed with 3 parts of water.
Rayki is made from grapes and aniseed and it smells like licorice.
The owner is Ayhan Yazar, who is very friendly and we spent the remainder of our evening chatting with him and drinking the Turkish poison of choice – Rayki. The place also had a bar, restaurant and internet access. They charged 80 Turkish Lire for a double room including breakfast. We spent a while driving around looking for somewhere to stay until we came across Otel Akcasehir. Akçakoca town centre and fishing bayĬheap accomodation is not easy to find here. We went to Balic Insalte for dinner because it was the busiest. We shared a house salad, a dish called Kidasi, which is a seafood stew with beef stock and cheese, and a plate of Hamsi, which are small grilled anchovies and a specialty of Akçakoca. There are several seafood restaurants here with outside seating although most of them do not serve alcohol. We were very thirsty and hungry when we arrived at Akçakoca and after a walk through the town we went to the wharf area where the boats were coming in after a day of fishing. The striking mosque of Akçakoca stands out by the sea Even though he sang in Arabic we understood he was calling the people to come to the mosque and pray, which happens 5 times a day. During the evening we heard the Muezzin of the mosque singing from the top of the minaret. A lot of new roads have been built in this area, which our navigation system was unaware of so we ended up going down a lot of dodgy roads and getting lost.Īkçakoca is a charming beach town famous for its geometric and pointy looking mosque. Big tour buses driving over 100km/h were overtaking us! However once the highways end and you move into the region of Dulze it gets interesting. Driving out of Istanbul on the highway was easy enough, and we found people drive very quickly in Turkey. By Google maps it should have taken us 2 hours to get there. We organised a rental car and set off on our adventure of the Black Sea Region. Our first stop was Akçakoca. We arrived at Istanbul Sabiha Gocken airport at lunch time. We spent two weeks driving from Istanbul along the black sea from Akçakoca to Kastamonu and driving back inland via Safranbolu. We ate delicious food, swam in clear waters, and got lost in one of Turkey’s largest national parks! It is a diverse country, rich in history and natural beauty, and there is a lot to explore. Turkey is one of the greatest places to take a road trip.
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