Report in Ovacik 27 july (tunceli festival)





We accepted the invitation of Ozan and his friends to spend the second day of Dersim festival in Ovagik, where there are the sources of  river Munzur which crosses Tunceli.

This is considered an holy place where people go to make wishes and to drink and to take away the holy water.
There are several places to make whishes lighting candels or putting little stones on big rocks. 
People also go there just to rest, to refresh with the very cold water of the river enjoy the landscape of montains and green fields.
Arriving there we took the challenge to cross the river. It was about 20 meters and arriving to the other side we could not feel our feet anymore, they were forzen!

While our friends were preparing the meal, we were brave enough to enter the river completely just for few seconds, but it was really regenerating.

Then, after the tipical turkish breackfast, we went up to the first source of the river, crossing an open green field just under the montains. Then once arrived, together with Yuksel, Bahar, Ozan, Seynep, Fuat we did a Service ceremony. An girl we did not know listening to the explanation of the ceremony joined us in the circle. Fede did the ceremony in Italian and Yuksel in Turkish and later thanks to the traslations of Ozan and Zeinep we were able to talk about the experience and to answer their question concerning Silo, our believes, how to overcome the suffering and how can we be conscoius of our life.

It was very inspiring to do a ceremony in such a place and to enjoy the precense of these new friends. We came back singing together on the bus (bella ciao) and finally we were able to reach the rest of the group for the evening ceremony.

Ovacik Team : Federica, Yüksel, Paolo, Marco

1 comment:

  1. Hi friends, what a wonderful experience. It is as if i were there with you all.

    Big hug and many thanks,

    Peter

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