Turkey - Southeast Anatolia 2025 - 2nd to 8th October
The ‘Apzu’ - Primeval Waters Blueprint for Humanity at the Dawn of New Creation
(This trip is followed by ‘Oracles and Dreamer’ - check Delphi & Asclepieion - Ancient Greece 11th to 16th October)
Cost 2990 Euros
6 nights - 7 days
Diyarbakir - Hasankeyf - Lice Highlands - Mardin - Dara - Lake Hazar - Karakadag - Gobeklitepe - Karahantepe - Sanliurfa Museum - Balikligol pools - Cappadocia Extension
In the ancient Mesopotamia Sumerian Epic ofcreation - the Enuma Elish - the ‘Apzu’ or ‘Absu’ is the primordial fresh waters (inner Earth primeval Lake) that hold the Blueprint for Humanity and the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates flowing primeval waters, carrying the ‘Me’(divine decrees) to the lands between the two rivers, to support a new creation with encoded intelligence of a ‘first time’ .
The Mesopotamia writings is coherent with ancient Egypt’s ‘Nu/Nun’ the limitless potential as water that gives life and flows as the River Nile.
Itinerary Upper Tigris, South Eastern Anatolia
Day one - October 2nd Arrival day in Diyarbakir
Transfer from Airport. Check in the hotel, evening dinner together.
Option Hevsel Gardens (10 mins drive) Fertile oasis sustained by river irrigation. Basalt city walls: Ancient urban defense aligned to sacred geography. Early Hurrian and Assyrian settlements linked to Tigris veneration.
Day two – Oct 3rd Journey Begins to Source of the Tigris River
Dicle Eğil Roual Tombs (Sumerian remnants) – Rock-cut tombs believed to hold Assyrian or regional kings. The Tigris flows directly below, suggesting ritual placement of rulers between the heavens and the Abzu.
The Source of the River Tigris - Taurus Mountains - The emergence of sacred waters from the Earth — an Abzu gate.
Lice Highlands Springs feeding the Upper Tigris flow from here.
Day three Oct 4th – Hasankeyf (2 hr from Diyarbakir) Continuous human habitation for over 10,000 years. Natural limestone caves carved by the Tigris. By the 14th century BC, the Hasankeyf area was within the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni, the civilization with strong ties Egypt (especially to Pharaoh Amenhotep III of 18th Dynasty). Later medieval bridges and fortresses stand above much older sacred geography.
Or …… Second option Day three Oct 4 (if the energies dont permit both visits in one day)
Karaka dag volcano zone & springs (1:30 mins form Diyarbakir) The womb of the Fertile Crescent, The Karacadag Volcanic Complex is located near the Maras triple junction, where African, Arabian and Anatolian plates meet The complex is also associated with the Karasu Rift and East Anatolia Fault zone.. The Karacadağ highlands may represent the true "belly" of the Fertile Crescent — where life first emerged in partnership with springs and fertile volcanic soils.
Day four – Oct 5th
Lake Hazar Elazig (option 1) 2 hours from Diyarbakir - a rift lake at the headwaters of the Tigris River system. Sometimes called the true "source" of the Tigris by geographers. Beneath its waters lies a partially submerged ancient city — visible during low water levels. – (location of Armenian Genocide)
Last night in Diyarbakir.
Day five – Oct 6th
Check out of Hotel
Mardin old city – Mardin Museum Fantastic collection of artifacts from this very early period. Insight into pre-Enki water cosmologies — before gods were formalized.
Dara ancient : City Built by the Byzantines as a frontier stronghold. Gigantic underground cisterns provided water security. Complex subterranean tunnels reflect both engineering and sacred understanding of water’s subterranean sources.
Night in Mardin Hotel
Day six – Oct 7th Travel to Urfa
Check in to Hotel in Sanliurfa (2:50mins from Mardin)
Gobekli Tepe : vicinity of the Euphrates River, possibly the oldest monumental temple known (older than 9600–8200 BCE). T-shaped pillars with abstract and animal iconography. Circular enclosures likely used for ritual feasts and offerings.
Karahan Tepe : vicinity of the Euphrates River, Contemporary with Göbekli Tepe (older than 9500–9000 BCE). Sunken enclosures with massive phallic pillars, channels, and carved shafts. Vertical openings into the earth as ritual focal points.
Day 7 – Oct 8th
Sanliurfa Archeological Museum Holds many artifacts from Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, Nevali Çori, and other sacred water sites. Displays early stone vessels, statues, and ritual architecture fragments.
Balikligol pools Ancient sacred spring associated with Abrahamic, pre-Abrahamic, and even Sumerian traditions of water oracles. Continuously venerated for thousands of years as a source of healing, fertility, and divine intervention
End of Part Two/Departure to Istanbul – or continue to Central Anatolia
Airport transfer Şanlıurfa (GAP) Airport to Istanbul or continue to Kayseri Erkilet Airport (ASR) Cappadocia Central Anatolia.
Option for one extra night in Cappadocia is not included in the above price
Included
6 nights, all breakfasts, bottled water during our outings, transportation to all locations, private expert local guide, Anouk Sophia’s teachings, sharings and full support.
4 x nights in Diyarbakir
1 x night Mardin
1 x night Sanliurfa
Not Included
International or national flights, insurance of any kind, lunches and dinners, alcoholic beverages .
contact me for details!