Visitors throng frozen lake famous for sleigh rides

With the start of the touristic Eastern Express, an in a single day passenger educate that runs from the capital Ankara to the jap province of Kars, Lake Çıldır, well-known for horse-drawn sleigh rides, has started out web hosting its visitors.

Tourists throng the frozen lake, located between Kars and the neighboring province of Ardahan, with a few joining sleigh rides and a few taking pictures whilst strolling at the ice-protected elements of the lake, which seems like glass because it has no longer snowed but.

Lake Çıldır is the second-largest lake inside the place. Its floor gets absolutely blanketed with ice during the winter months. Taşbaşı village area within the Arpaçay district of Kars has partially frozen because the air temperature decreased to minus 10-12 levels.

“Look at the [natural] splendor. I am so delighted to be here,” Meral Dalay, a visitor from the northern province of Samsun, advised İhlas News Agency.

“I will stroll around the lake. I pray to God that it received’t spoil. I do not realize how to swim,” she stated while laughing.