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Sinop

Table of Contents

Travel to Sinop, visa requirements / Get around / Sinop attractions and sightseeing / City tours / Shopping, Sinop souvenirs / Good restaurants and cheap meals / Sinop nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs. / Hotels, youth hostels, lodging / Get out

Sinop is a city in the Black Sea region of Turkey.

Sinop is a charming Black Sea port town with excellent views. You can easily spend a day here wandering around the town, restaurants and sea front, although you could also easily see everything in half a day.

Travel to Sinop & Visa Requirements

Tours & Getting around Sinop

Sinop is easily navigable by foot. Parking is likely to be difficult in the summer.

Sinop attractions and sightseeing

Sinop has impressive fortifications running through much of the town. The walls stand at 3 meters thick and up to 30 meters high, with 7 large towers.

Sinop city tours

Between 9 and 23 August near Sinop - a proposed site for a nuclear power plant - the international activist gathering Ecotopia will be held [1].

Sinop souvenirs & shopping

Grilled fish at one of the small restaurants.

Sinop Restaurants: cheap, moderate and expensive

Get up early and visit one of the local bakeries for a fresh loaf of Ekmek (a sourdough bread). Served hot and sometimes with butter and honey - It is a treat for the taste buds. A warm cup of tea goes well with this treat.

There is a large number of informal open-air cafes along the harbor serving deliciously fresh fish.

Sinop nightlife, bars, clubs & pubs

One of the fortified towers has turned into a cafe/bar, and is a great place to get a drink. It also has a good night scene.

Sinop cheap and luxurious hotels, youth hostels & lodging

Yilmaz Aile Pansiyonu, Kurtulus Caddesi, close to the port, [2]. A budget place - 20 YTL for a basic double (summer 2005), shared bathroom, reasonably clean. edit

Get out

A direct bus leaves Sinop at 8 PM, and arrives in Trabzon at 6 AM, and continues on to Rize.

This page was last edited at 18:50, on 11 November 2008 by Peter Fitzgerald. Based on work by Tim Sandell, Wikitravel user(s) Vidimian, Hot Coffee and Eiland and Anonymous user(s) of Wikitravel.

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