Berçelan yayla lies eighteen kilometres north of Hakkari and is used the way the other pastures here are used: local people move up in summer to graze their animals and work their produce, living in the traditional black tents. The ground around it suits mountaineering, skiing and walking, and the flora is good.
Seyithan, a glacial lake near the pasture, gives the area a character of its own. West of Berçelan is the Golan yayla, which is described as well placed to become the region's principal ski centre; it is fifteen kilometres away by road.
Getting there
- Access
- Reached by road.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Hakkari as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -4.4 °C in January to 24.8 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in April (126 mm) and lightest in August (5 mm). Long-term means for 1961-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
