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Day Trips from Diyarbakır: 8 Places Worth the Ride
The best day trips from Diyarbakır are Göbekli Tepe, Mount Nemrut, and Tigranocerta. They are 69 to 215 km away: out after breakfast, back in time for dinner.
1Historic & Cultural · Şanlıurfa
Göbekli Tepe
173 km away · about 2.5 hours each way
Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic archaeological site in Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) in modern-day Turkey. The settlement was inhabited from around 9500 BCE to at least 8000 BCE, during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. It is known for its large circular structures that contain large stone pillars – among the world's oldest known megaliths. Many of these pillars are decorated with anthropomorphic details, clothing, and sculptural reliefs of wild animals, providing archaeologists insights into prehistoric religion and the iconography of the period. The 15 m (50 ft) high, 8 ha (20-acre) tell is covered with ancient domestic structures and other small buildings, quarries, and stone-cut cisterns from the Neolithic, as well as some traces of activity from later periods.
2Nature & Adventure · Adıyaman
Mount Nemrut
164 km away · about 2.5 hours each way
Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is a 2,150-metre-high mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC. It is one of the highest peaks in the east of the Taurus Mountains. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
Also thereArsameia
3Historic & Cultural · Batman
Tigranocerta
127 km away · about 2 hours each way
Tigranocerta, also called Cholimma or Chlomaron in late antiquity, was a city and the capital of the Armenian Kingdom between 77 and 69 BCE. There is no common agreement on the precise location of Tigranocerta; it was either near present-day Silvan, or Arzan, east of Diyarbakır, Turkey, or in the valley of the Garzan river as mentioned by T. A.
Also thereArzen
4Historic & Cultural · Batman
Hasankeyf
132 km away · about 2 hours each way
Hasankeyf is a town located along the Tigris, in the Hasankeyf District, Batman Province, Turkey. It was declared a natural conservation area by Turkey in 1981. Despite local and international objections, the city and its archaeological sites have been flooded as part of the Ilısu Dam project.
5Historic & Cultural
Çayönü
69 km away · about 1 hour each way
Çayönü Tepesi is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B settlement in southeastern Turkey which prospered from around 8630 to 6800 BC. It is located in Diyarbakır 40 kilometres northwest of Diyarbakır, 140 kilometers northeast of Şanlıurfa, at the foot of the Taurus Mountains. It lies near the Boğazçay, a tributary of the upper Tigris River and the Bestakot, an intermittent stream.
6Historic & Cultural · Malatya
Arslantepe
215 km away · about 3 hours each way
Arslantepe, also known as Melid, was an ancient city on the Tohma River, a tributary of the upper Euphrates rising in the Taurus Mountains. It has been identified with the modern archaeological site of Arslantepe near Malatya, Turkey. It was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name Arslantepe Mound in 2021.
7Historic & Cultural · Mardin
Dara
129 km away · about 2 hours each way
Dara or Daras was an important East Roman fortress city in northern Mesopotamia on the border with the Sassanid Empire. Because of its great strategic importance, it featured prominently in the Roman-Persian conflicts. The former archbishopric remains a multiple Catholic titular see.
8Historic & Cultural
Malabadi Bridge
112 km away · about 1.5 hours each way
The Malabadi Bridge or Karaman Bridge is an arch bridge spanning the Batman River near Malabadi village in Silvan in southeastern Turkey. Construction began in the year AD 1146/47 during the Artuqid period, and appears to have been completed by about 1154. The bridge was commissioned by Husam al-Din Timurtash of Mardin, son of Ilghazi, and grandson of Artuk Bey which one of the important commander of the Oghuz Turks.
Also thereHallan Çemi
Good to know
What is the best day trip from Diyarbakır?
Göbekli Tepe is the best-known: 173 km away · about 2.5 hours each way.
What is the closest day trip from Diyarbakır?
Çayönü: 69 km away · about 1 hour each way.
Do we need a tour for day trips from Diyarbakır?
Not necessarily. Most of these places can be reached on our own by bus, train or car; a guided tour simply saves the planning.
Distances and times are road estimates from coordinates; actual travel time depends on traffic and the way we travel.