Photographs, maps and memory — a growing list of journeys,
and the small towns near home that started it all.
Photographs, maps and memory
a growing list of journeys,
and the small towns near
home that started it all.
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One journey to begin with — the place this whole habit of wandering started.
Türkiye · Mersin
Before the Maldives, before Japan, there was the coast road out of Mersin and a habit of turning off it whenever something looked interesting. This is where the curiosity started, and where it still goes to reset.
Walk the journeyMountains, rivers, and the places most people miss.
Kavaklıdere
CampSafranbolu Viewpoint
ViewpointRumkale
ViewpointKaramanastır Waterfall
Hidden spotHorma Canyon
HikeMersin Lakeside
Hidden spotVarda Bridge
ViewpointKarasu Waterfall
Hidden spotTarsus Pamukluk Dam
CampSigiriya Rock
ViewpointHere are the destinations I have visited and marked off. There are still many countries left that I plan to travel to.
Swipe to see every place I've marked on the map above.
A rotating spotlight — a different place from the map each week, picked to look at a little closer.
This is a placeholder for the full trip write-up — the story behind these photos, the route taken, and a few notes worth remembering for next time.
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The person behind Gezgin Sirine
By profession, Sunay works in emergency medicine — steady hands, long shifts, and a job built around staying calm when nothing else is. Off the clock, that same steadiness turns into something else entirely: a habit of finding the next mountain, the next unmarked coastline, the next town nobody mentioned.
Gezgin Sirine is where those two lives meet — not as a contrast to explain, just as the shape of one curious life.
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