birecik: recent news about safety? (1 Viewer)

[XavierVandevyvre]

Hi to all,

has anyone been birding recently in Birecik area? Is there a safety feeling?

are the birding sites accessible?

is there a safe place to spend one night?

thanks

 

[jurek]

Check if the observations at observado are popping. Last year it was fine, met several birding groups, only the area away, south towards the border was unsafe - but no birds there anyway.

Beware only of Ahmed chasing you in his tractor to sell you $15 bird tour. I hope some birders will look at google maps and find alternative locality for See-see Partridge etc in another stream valley.

 

[sharifaone]

Hi to all,

has anyone been birding recently in Birecik area? Is there a safety feeling?

are the birding sites accessible?

is there a safe place to spend one night?

thanks

XavierVandevyvre,
sorry, this reply might be late. But Birecik is fine! I was there in late May and then again last week. And I was birding as a female on her own, with no problems at all. Yes, all the sites are accessible. It's a quite little town (except when there's a football match on TV!), and OK with the random birder coming through.

Places to stay: either Merkalem Hotel (on the main East-West road, on the West side of the bridge over the Euphrates, or else Acar Hotel, on the East side, just north of the main road. Both places can be found on a Google map, but neither have internet reservations possible, and no one speaks English there.