10th century Armenian chirch perched on Akdamar island 3km out in lake Van


The first most important aspect of Van is that it was a thriving Armenian city until the Turks massacred 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1923 (I'm not quite sure of the true history of this as Turks claims otherwise) and the old city was completely flattened and new dull, ugly city stands 4km from the original city ( not worth a picture!) / La cosa mas importante acerca de Van es que era una ciudad armenia llena de vida hasta que los turcos masacraron 1.5 millones de armenios entre los anos 1915 y 1923 (no sabemos muy bien lo que paso en verdad, ya que los turcos dicen que lo de la masacre es mentira)