Pokut sits at 2,032 metres, around the upper limit of the forest, on the ground between the valleys cut by the Fırtına and Hala streams south of Çamlıhemşin. What it is known for besides the walking is its building: the timber houses here are a civil architecture the provincial directorate calls without equal, and the mist that sits over them is part of why people come.
The plateau is 15 kilometres from the centre of Çamlıhemşin; the road turns east off the Fırtına valley at the village of Şenyuva. Some of the plateau houses take guests as pensions, so it is possible to stay.
Getting there
- Access
- Fifteen kilometres from the centre of Çamlıhemşin; turn east at Şenyuva village in the Fırtına valley.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Rize as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.8 °C in February to 23.3 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in October (294 mm) and lightest in May (97 mm). Long-term means for 1927-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
