Uludag is located 150 km from Istanbul and 35 km from Bursa .Almost every hotel has own lifts here, the cost of which is included in the cost of living (but this does not mean that the lifts of one hotel are closed to guests of others: a ski pass to the lift of a "foreign" hotel can always be bought at its lower station, it happens for several lifts or several days) .The snow cover (its maximum thickness is 3 meters) remains from the second half of December to the end of March .Downhill skiing tracks are located at altitudes of 1750-2543 m above sea level, wide and well-groomed, they mostly pass through the forest .The best time for skiing is between December and March .
The modern Uludag, and in antiquity the legendary Maly Olympus of Mysiys, according to mythology, is the place where the Gods watched the outcome of the Trojan War. "Uludag" means "Big Mountain" and is the highest mountain in Western Anatolia. In the Middle Ages, this mountain was known as a place of seclusion of Byzantine monks, as a result of which Uludag was entrusted with the Turkish name "Keshish-dag", which means "Monastic Mountain".
Not far from the top of Uludag is an abandoned mine for the extraction of tungsten. The mine and combine for its processing, built in 1974 for $ 60 million, were closed in 1989 due to the cost of production.
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How to get to Uludag
Flight to Istanbul, from where by air, or by bus you can get to Bursa (travel time about 4 hours). From Bursa to Uludag, there are minibuses (journey time about 40 min) and cable cars.
The funicular line consists of two parts: the first is the cableway Kadyyaila-Saryalan, lifts which can accommodate up to 30 people, the second is the Saryalan-Ciobankaya lift, which can accommodate 2 people. The first station of the cable car is located at an altitude of 374 m, the intermediate station, Kadyyaila, at an altitude of 1231 m., And finally the terminal station Saryalan - at an altitude of 1634 m. Regular minibuses run from the Saryalan station to the Uludag hotels (a distance of about 7 km). It should be borne in mind that it is forbidden to transport ski sets on a ropeway.
The second part of the cable car connecting the station Saryalan with the station Chobankaya, located at an altitude of 1711 m, operates only in the summer.
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Uludag Roads
The resort is equipped with a cable car, 5 chairlifts and 7 rope tows. The total length of the routes is 20 km, of which 10 are "green", 8 "blue", 6 "red" and 1 "black."
Ski resort Uludag is suitable for families and for lovers of soft calm descents. Beginners and skiers of the middle level will find here the tracks to your taste. For children at the resort, there are wide, well-groomed routes with good rollouts. For experienced skiers, there are longer and steep routes outside the forest zone. At the resort you can work out slalom, ski races and biathlon.
Climate of Uludag
| Average monthly temperature, ° C | ||||||||||||
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | sen | Oct | but I | Dec | |
| in the afternoon | -4 | +2 | +5 | +9 | +14 | +17 | +19 | +20 | +15 | +10 | +5 | +0 |
| at night | -10 | -5 | +0 | +3 | +5 | +8 | +9 | +7 | +4 | +0 | -1 | -6 |
Hotels in Uludag
The ski center of Uludag consists of two zones. In the first zone, the investment in which has already been completed, there are 16 hotels. In the second zone, which was declared a tourist center in 1986, a land plot was allocated for 11 hotels, distributed between investors and intended to accommodate 3300 people. In addition, in the ski resort of Uludag today there are 12 state-run hotels in 15 hotels belonging to the private sector. A total of 27 residential premises, designed to accommodate 3 thousand people. In addition to hotels there are shopping and entertainment centers, a medical center, you can take an instructor and rent ski equipment.
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| Alkoclar Zone Hotel from 6 892 rubles Uludag 2. Oteller Bolgesi | Karinna Hotel from 9 511 rubles Uludag Volfram Yolu Bursa |
| Alkoclar Hotel from 6 892 rubles Uludag 1. Oteller Bolgesi | Le Chalet Yazici from 9 580 rub. Uludag 1. Oteller Bolgesi Uludag |
| Otel Fahri from 5 583 rubles Uludag 1. Oteller Bolgesi Uludag |
Entertainment, excursions and attractions Uludag
Among the natural attractions of Uludag, one can name the national park of the same name, which is a sanctuary for several species of mountain birds, including bearded, eagle-eagle, goshawk, small spotted birds, peregrine falcon, yellow-necked queens and others .On the territory of the park there are rare butterflies "Apollo", primroses, crocuses and mouse hyacinths grow, and in the spruce forest there live a very rare mouse-owl owl short-tailed pika, the avocado and the white-backed woodpecker .The park can be reached by car, or by cable car .The distance between the national park and Uludag is about 12 km .
From Uludag excursions to Bursa, an ancient city with a powerful excursion program .Bursa is the fourth largest city in Turkey after Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir .Formerly the capital of the great Ottoman Empire Bursa still keeps the remains of its former power .Among the most notable monuments of Islamic architecture in Bursa is the Yeshil Mosque or the Green Mosque built in 1419-1424 .and is part of a large religious complex consisting of a madrasah, a minaret and a tomb-mausoleum .The facade of the mosque is made of white marble, and the interior, thanks to which it became the most famous building of the city, is decorated with tiles of green, blue, blue, turquoise and azure colors and an intricate Arabic script .
In Bursa there is an archaeological museum, which opened its doors to the first visitors in 1904. In several halls of the museum artifacts dating from the 3rd century are presented. BC. - 15 in. AD and found during excavations in the territories occupied once by Bithynia and Mysia, and in the courtyard of the museum - sculptures, tombstones, stelae and sarcophagi are exhibited.
80 km from Bursa there are hot thermal springs of Yalova Termal with a water temperature reaching 57-60 degrees above zero. The composition of water, which can be used not only for bathing, but also drink, includes sodium chloride, calcium sulfate and fluorides.