3★+ hotels in Van from €26/night (range €26–116, 10 hotels sampled, ~3 weeks out).
In Oct, Van typically sees ~17°C daytime highs and 6 rainy days.
Top-rated tours and tickets from €11 — book ahead for the popular ones.
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Van (pronounced vahn in Turkish or wahn in Kurdish) is a city in Eastern Anatolia in Turkey. It's on the eastern shore of Lake Van near the border with Iran, so for Iranians it's an unlikely Reno, a holiday break from their restrictive theocracy. For western visitors it gives a glimpse of the vanished Urartu and Armenian civilisations. In 2024 the city population was 523,000, with about the same again in the rest of Van province.
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