Tekirdag Hostels - Hostels in Turkey Tekirdag

Tekirdag is settled about 150km west of Istanbul, in the Thrace, the european part of the Republic of Turkiye . Tekirdag is worldwide known with its well known Raki, called Tekirdag Rakisi. It is sold all over Turkey including all the airports. It is a national drink of Turkey, 45 degree, made from grape to be mixed with cold water (1/2) and some ice cubes, it changes its color to milky white. It is similar to the Greeks Ouzo with the flavour of anise. The best way to drink raki with Turkish white cheese (fetta), meat and water melon. Tekirdag is also well known for its meat balls, called Tekirdag Kofte. It is an agricultural town where most people grow sun flowers all over the place.

If you are in the area make sure you drive to south of Tekirdag to Kumbag and follow to shore line to Ucmakdere Sarkoy shoreline road where the best grapes are grown and visit the wine yards/wine factories. This is one of the most well known spot for the Turkish wines. This road is very unique which goes to Murefte and than to Saros Bay. However, this road can only good for cars/mini buses not for big buses. It is a country dirt road but the scenary is excellent. It has a very good picking location when you reach the shore, you will pass one small town (after Ucmakdere) and east of small town there is a park next the shore, it is an ideal location to get rest and have picnic.

The road is subparallel to the world well known fault, called The North Anatolian Fault . The fault reachs to shore from the sea at Ucmakdere and continues on land till it reaches to Saros Bay. As you may know, the most of earthquakes in Turkey are caused by this fault. The fault is 1500km long, it crosses the country E W direction and starts around Erzincan, in Eastern Turkey and it goes to Greece. You may touch the fault surface while draving along the road which has been killing thousands of people in the past. The geology along the road is facinating. As a geologist, I did lots of field work for ARCO International Oil and Gas Company where the most significant reservoir and sources rock crops out at the surface on this road.

The provence of Tekirdag is surrounded by three seas; Black Sea, Marmara Sea and Agean Sea. People from western Turkey, mainly from Istanbul have summer houses on the Marmara Sea and Aegean Sea Shore lines at the provence of Tekirdag. The most significant spot is in Bay of Saros where the water is crystal clear.

Corlu and Cerkezkoy are two significant cities in the provence and outcoming industrial cities, settled 40 60 km NE of Tekirdag. After the late 1970s the region evolved into an industrial area bearing people from all over Turkiye. As in the 1970s both area were only small farmers towns. But this has changed rapidly. In 2005 the population has grown up to an amount of over 250.000 people. The railroad connection and also the new TEM highway connections make it a preferable location for local and international industry. Main sectors in both cities are textile, glass factory, mining, lumber, sun flower oil factories, gas run power plants, automotive, petroleum activities and pharmacy.