ORDU
After Fatsa, another holiday town on the road to Ordu, the ruins of the Byzantine Jason Church, now a museum, stand on the Camburnu promontory. Legend relates that the Argonauts landed here on their quest for the Golden Fleece.
Fish restaurants serving the finest tea found in the region dot the 50-km scenic road to Ordu. Sea snails, a regional speciality, are particularlydelicious at Yaliköy.
Returning from the Babylon campaign, the survivors of Xenephon's Ten Thousand left Anatolia from Ordu in their retreat to Greece. Today it is a beautiful port situated at the foot of a forested hill. In the Pashaoglu Konak (mansion), now the Ethnographical Museum, you glimpse how a rich and influential 19th-century famely lived. Hazelnut production centers around Ordu, and every September the town hosts the Golden Hazelnut Festival.
Be sure to sample the delicious chocolate nut candy. It is worth spending some time at an 18th-century church 2 km from town, and the pretty beach of Güzelyali is worth visiting. Fifty-eight kilometers to the south, at an altitude of 1250 meters, the yayla (plateau) of Cambasi offers beautiful mountain views.
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