The tomb stands on a hill west of Bolu, 13 kilometres from the town at Elmalık village, under the shade of century-old trees of various kinds.
The date attached to it is not the building's but the man's: Sufi sources, the provincial directorate says, record that Tokadi Hayreddin died in 1535.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Bolu as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.6 °C in January to 20 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (61 mm) and lightest in August (24 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
