The salt caves at Tuzluca, in İğdır province, run into Tuz Dağı, and the rock salt beds in them are thought to have formed between 24 and 37 million years ago. Inside are many galleries resembling rooms, and the temperature holds at twelve degrees in every season.
The caves are known to have been used for salt by the states that ruled this region through history, and they are still worked: about sixty tonnes of salt a day is produced here. In 2021 a salt therapy centre opened in them, bringing the caves into health tourism as well. They are in the town of Tuzluca.
Getting there
- Access
- In the centre of 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).
