Bogazkale

Boğazkale is a village in the Central Karadeniz region in Turkey. It lies next to the ruins of the ancient Hittite city of Hattusa (Turkish: Hattuşaş), a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Get in
Boğazkale is off the Ankara - Samsun road from the town of Sungurlu and there are plenty of buses that run on that route.

There are 2 municipal buses per day from Sungurlu to Boğazkale from Monday to Friday. The bus leaves Sungurlu at 07:30 and 17:30. The return trips from Boğazkale are at 07:00 and 17:00. Ask the locals for Belediye otobüsü Boğazkale at Sungurlu. There are 1-2 dolmuş services per day without a reliable timetable. Taxis are also available between Sungurlu and Boğazkale.

See




Do

 * The Hittite Trail (the official website is in Turkish only; the English webpage from the Culture Routes Society Turkey) is a collection of signposted hiking and cycling routes in and around Boğazkale, taking advantage of the ancient trails wherever possible while connecting the Hittite sites to each other. The cumulative length of the routes totals up to.

Stay safe
Boğazkale squarely lies within the habitat of the ticks (kene), which are known to be a vector of the serious Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF, Turkish: Kırım Kongo Kanamalı Ateşi or KKKA) in the area. Follow the usual tick prevention strategy of avoiding long grasses and wearing long trouses April through October when the ticks are active; if you nevertheless get bitten by one, seek medical help immediately, as those unfortunate enough to be infected by CCHF have a mortality rate of 10-40% within three days of infection. Experts advice against removing the tick from your body as this may result in its mouth breaking apart — which results in an elevated likelihood for infection and makes it harder for the medical staff to identify the tick.

Connect
As of Oct 2023, Bogazkale and its approach highways have no mobile signal from any carrier.

Go next

 * Amasya &mdash; inland town on Yeşilırmak River with whitewashed Ottoman architecture and ancient tombs engraved on cliffs overlooking the town.
 * Çorum - N 30 km.
 * Ordu &mdash; on the way to more popular cities and sites of eternally rainy and green Eastern Black Sea.
 * Samsun &mdash; largest city on the Turkish Black Sea coast with big city attractions: such as opera and museums. Also many sports, including wakeboarding in summer.
 * Tokat

Hattuşa