Akyaka River Romp

This guide to the Akyaka River Romp centers on Nail Çakırhan, a poet with no architecture training who settled in this fishing village in 1971 with his wife, archaeologist Halet Çambel, and picked up a hammer to build his own house on the cliff above the water. It follows how his self-taught, Ottoman-inspired style spread through the village and what an international jury made of it in 1983. Watch the timber-and-plaster banks drift by as your boat follows the Azmak.