These hills in the Tuzluca district of İğdır are named for their colours: the soil runs through red, brown, grey and yellow, and the shifts show strongest at sunrise and sunset. Photographers come for that.
The ground is high, mostly mountainous and broken, and it is walked and trekked. The hills are at Aşağı, in Tuzluca.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Iğdır as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -3.2 °C in January to 26 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (48 mm) and lightest in August (9 mm). Long-term means for 1940-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
