After checking out from Adiyaman, we headed east to see one of the engineering wonders of Turkey - the Ataturk Dam. The picture above gives you no sense of scale, but the thing is gigantic. It's on the Euphrates (yeah, we're that far east) and generates 30% of all Turkey's power. So it's very big.
This is downstream from everything. As you can see, the river was much, much wider once upon a time.
By this time, I was feeling so ill, I could barely stand. Just walking to the railing to take the top two pictures had me sweaty and exhausted. My arms, legs and head ached like the dickens. So I took a picture of sleeping puppies while everyone else in the group asked questions about the dam. And then we moved along to one of the greatest archaeological sites on the planet.
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