Asarkale, Kral Kaya Mezarı

The road is very beautiful, you can come easily. It would be a better place if a nice picnic area was built. But there is a facility for eating. The tombs are such that you can take pictures from afar. Just behind the tombs, there is also a place where you can put your feet in the water and throw a table. But the water smells a bit.

Come here during the Kapıkaya festival, you can go to these graves by renting a very sweet festival, canoe boat, etc. You can spend wonderful days or days with our tent.

Transportation is laborious soon but there are beautiful historical places we climbed to the top of the cave

A place full of unique scenery and history. It is recommended, if you happen to be on your way, be sure to stop by

A wonderful authentic place, definitely a must see, by the Kızılırmak

Kizilirmak and its surroundings are also very rich in terms of history with the ruins of the region that survived from the Hittites. Along with the rock tombs, Asarkale, which overlooks the Red River, gives the opportunity to experience this history and nature at the same time with canoe. From the festival area, you can see it on the roadside in 5 minutes on foot.

Asarkaya, which is close to the Altınkaya dam in the Kızılırmak valley, is a Hellenistic structure. There are 3 rock tombs mentioned. Two of them are on the bedrock and one is on the opposite side of the river, as if watching the river. The castle, which is 300 meters high, is accessed through a tunnel on the side of the road. While this tunnel was being built as an asphalt road, some of it was destroyed, and the part leading to the castle is still active. As far as I remember from the legends I heard in my childhood, it is said that this tunnel passes under the river to the opposite side and goes into the rock tomb on the opposite side, even it is said that there are settlements on both sides and there are living spaces or houses inside the rocks. My logic also makes me think that this place will not be used for security purposes only, because it is a complete living space that can be made in production at the water's edge and it will be good if these areas are examined in more detail.

Asarkale and rock tombs built in the Hellenistic Age in the Bafra district of Samsun, . Among the Asarkale and rock tombs, which were built in the Hellenistic Age, and used after renovations in the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods, the 2,300-year-old Paphlagonian tombs made by carving the rocks attract the most attention.