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I grew up on Air Force Bases and have a few favorites like Randolph AFB near San Antonio, TX, Walker AFB near Roswell, NM, and Istanbul Turkey which wasn't exactly a base, but the city was drop dead beautiful. However, there was one real favorite.Stead AFB near Reno, NV, no longer exist, but it was a fun place to live. Reno was a great little city. For those of you that are old enough to remember the movie, "American Graffiti", that movie could have been filmed in downtown Reno except that Reno was much brighter and had a lot more going on. As teens, we grew up around the casinos.Stead AFB was home to the Air Force Helicopter School and the USAF Survival School. Both of these commands used the desert landscape around the base and the Sierra Nevada mountain range on the west side of the base. As kids, we had wide open space to use our bikes and later our cars and motor scooter/cycles. We had a cheap movie theater, a cheap place for burgers and shakes, a cheap bowling alley, a free swimming pool, a free gym, and a free teen club. The pre-teens and teens could use all of these facilities without having parents around.We attended Central Junior High School and later Reno High School both in Reno, which was about 12 miles away. Our parents had very active Officers' Club and NCO Club, so the kids had plenty of unsupervised time. We got really good at dancing and partying. As kids, we had plenty of guns around, and we used a part of the Surval School and the driver training course to play around. Nobody ever got shot. I could watch the helicopters operate right out of my bedroom window. Kids didn't have TV in their rooms back then, so the helicopter show was a great pass time, especially when being punished.For first time employment, the girls could babysit in a safe environment while the boys became sackers at the commissary or worked at one of the clubs on the base. I started working at the Officers' Club as a dishwasher on my 16th birthday and grew into a backup cook and cashier on the weekend breakfast shift.Reno had a public ski club for all of the kids, where every Saturday during the ski season, thousands of kids boarded buses in downtown Reno and headed for Reno Sik Bowl or Slide Mountain for ski lessons and skiing with our friends. The ponds in the Reno City Parks froze over for the winter and ice skating was free and fun.Teen dating couldn't have had a better setting. The base was an especially safe haven for pre-teens and teens as very slow speed limits were enforced, and the Air Police were told to watch over us, but let us have fun. I could ride my bike all over the place except inside the flight line. Because the base was safe, my mom din't have to worry about me when I left the house and was gone for hours.Other American kids had great places to grow up on the farm, in good towns, and in some cities maybe even a beach, but Stead AFB would be my pick for an all around great place.

Dear Tufshin Dash the Black Sea Coastals are the hidden treasures of Turkey. If you have time and intend to come do it. I will put here some pictures from the Black Sea Coastals. ( Far warning i should write all beaches which i put here their pictures are on the Black Sea !!! ) I try to put all pictures with sort from West to East.I hope you enjoyed them:Begendik Beach at just the border of Bulgaria; in Igneada Demirkoy KirklareliThe Rezve River is the bordering Bulgaria and Turkey. You saw the building, these are the Rezovo Town of Bulgaria. As you can see; if you have a few paddle and swim to there you may reach, it is so close. But of course it is not possible. Even Turkish Gendarme might not stop - i am sure they will stop you- the Bulgarian Border Soldiers will stop and arrest you. I put here two picture to show two season of this beautiful beach. If you go there in May you will see all these yellowish sand covered by the Red Poppy Flower which you can see a sample at the second picture. But be sure the sample is not reflect the reality. It is more and more beautiful. Where i knew ? Because my parents are living in Igneada and we visit many times the Begendik Beach.Bonus informations for Igneada:My parents moved from Istanbul to Igneada because of my mother was suffering from asthma. My mother experienced that Igneada climate and weather became good for her asthma.At the following pictures you may see the beauty of green. All around Igneada is so green. Guess what happen? The existing government decided to build a Nuclear Power Plant. Money was over in the budget, so they could not attempt this madness. God blessed us.Unfortunately there is two Nuclear Power Plant project which started to build, one is again in a green area, almost you can say sea of forest or sea of green; in Sinop. Please follow up the pictures you will see how green is Sinop too.Igneada Floodplain Forests National Park / Demirkoy - Kirklareli:II. Mehmet (Conqueror) Forge / Foundry in Demirkoy - KirklareliDupnisa Cave in Demirköy - KirklareliKiyikoy - KirklareliAntique Bridge KirklareliHizirbey Mosque KirklareliBabaeski Bridge KirklareliSokollu Mehmet Pasha Bridge KirklareliKadi Mosque KirklareliVize Little Haghia Sofia Church / Mosque KirklareliKiyikoy Haghia Nikolá Monastery KirklareliKastro Beach in Saray TekirdagChilingoz Beach And Nature Park Catalca - IstanbulSilivri & Catalca Anastasios Walls Istanbul ( This walls is so unknown everybody new the City walls of Istanbul but this is the leading defense walls, if the enemy passed over then they come infront of the City Walls of Istanbul )Ormanli Beach IstanbulKilyos Beach IstanbulRumeli Kavagi IstanbulAnadolu Kavagi İstanbulThis first picture from Anadolu Kavagi shows the East Roman Castle which i mentioned in my many previous answers where you can see how the Bosphorus waters and Black Sea waters united. The unification resulted with the revel of all shades of green and blue. I am strongly advised you to go this castle and look for some time to this awesome color revel.Sile IstanbulAgva IstanbulKefken Kandira - KocaeliOsman Hamdi Bey Museum in Gebze - Kocaeli ( Osman Hamdi bey is one of the pioneer Painting artists and archaeologists of Ottomans; founder of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum and Fine Arts Academy of Istanbul in Ottoman period )Kocaeli Clock Tower - KocaeliKocaeli Archeology and Ethnography Museum in KocaeliKartepe Wintersports Center Kartepe-KocaeliKarasu Beach Karasu-SakaryaAcarlar Floodplain Forests National Park between Karasu and Kaynarca - SakaryaAcelle Plateau - SakaryaSapanca Lake - SakaryaDogancay Waterfall SakaryaSerdivan Justinianus ( Beskopru ) Bridge SakaryaSakarya Museum SakaryaCumayeri for Rafting DuzceAkcakoca - DuzceGenoese Castle in Akcakoca - DuzceDariyeri Yorukler Plateau advised for Off-Road DuzceKocayayla Plateau DuzcePrusias Ad Hypium Antique City in Konuralp - DuzceAbant Lake BoluGolcuk Lake&Nature Park Bolu ( Golcuk=Pond )Yedigoller ( Seven Lakes ) Lakes & National Park BoluSeben Lake BoluSuluklu Lake ( Leech Lake ) BoluKartalkaya ( Eaglerock ) Wintersport Center BoluZafer Tower Goynuk - Bolu ( Victory Tower )Yildirim Beyazit Mosque BoluBolu Museum BoluHistorical Bolu Houses in various part of BoluRock Houses BoluAlapli - ZonguldakEregli - ZonguldakHalilpasa Konagi ( Mansion ) in Eregli - ZonguldakTieion Antique City in ZonguldakFilyos Antique City ZonguldakFilyos Castle ZonguldakFilyos Beach ZonguldakKozlu Ilıksu Thermal Water in Kozlu-ZonguldakGokgol Cave ZonguldakCehennemagzi Cave/s ( Cehennemagzi means Hell’s Mouth or Inlet ) ZonguldakConquest Plane Trees Zonguldak ( 570 years old Planes )Citdere Nature Conservation Area ZonguldakKizilcapinar Dam Lake ZonguldakTas Lake ZonguldakSafranbolu Houses Safranbolu - KarabukYou should give one day and night for this town. Each house are older then 100 years. There is many boutique hotel which you can rest and feel the climate of Turkish Culture. All houses are symbols of the Anatolian Turkish housing culture. Safranbolu Town is under protection and in the UNESCO World Heritage List. If you ask me advise where i should stay, i advise you the Asmazlar Mansion Hotel; i stay there one night. It hit me with its beauty and the fact that a swimming pool made of marble was built 150 years ago ( not off the building in the building ).And here is the marble swimming pool of Asmazlar Mansion HotelSafranbolu Koprulu Mehmet Pasa Mosque in Safranbolu - KarabukYoruk Village in Safranbolu - KarabukYenice Forests in KarabukTokatli Canyon and Crystal Terrace in KarabukSugar Canyon in KarabukMencilis Cave in KarabukHadrianapolis Antique City in KarabukSafranbolu City History Museum in Safranbolu - KarabukBalamba Nature Park BartinKure Montain National Park - BartinGurcuoluk Cave BartinKocagoz Mansion BartinAhatlar Nature Park BartinZoni Plateau BartinKemerli Cave BartinUlukaya Waterfall&Canyon BartinKaracay Waterfall&Promenade BartinAmasra BartinGoldere Waterfall BartinBartin Conquest Mosque BartinBartin Creek BartinKapisuyu Beach Amasra - BartinGuzelcehisar Lava Columns BartinAmasra Antique Theater Amasra - BartinAmasra Weeping Tree Amasra - BartinKurucasile Amasra - BartinStone Mosque - CankiriMagnificent Suleiman Mosque - CankiriCankiri MuseumNinesiblings Pine ( 200 years old ) - CankiriSalt Cave - CankiriThe Donkey was like a mummy because of the humidity is % 0 in the Salt Cave of Cankiri and the cave is using now for treatment for some specific deseases as like Asthma !Cenderehoyuk Tumulus - CankiriSakaeli Rock Graves&Fairy Chimneys - CankiriCankiri Castle&Observation Terrace&Emir Karatekin Bey Tomb CankiriBayramoren Historical Wooden Bridge - CankiriSıhlar Nezlesuyu Thermal Waters - CankiriBeşdut Rock Graves - CankiriIndagi Rock Graves - CankiriKaratas Turkish Bath - CankiriCarsi Turkish Bath - CankiriKursunlu Turkish Bath - CankiriCivitcioglu Madrasah - CankiriPompoiopolis Antique City KastamonuKastamonu Castle KastamonuEvkaya Graves KastamonuSheikh Excellency Saban-i Veli Tomb KastamonuNasrullah Mosque KastamonuClock Tower KastamonuKastamonu Archeaology MuseumLiva Pasha Mansion Ethnography Museum KastamonuKastamonu Mansions KastamonuIlgaz Mountain National Park&Winter Sports Center KastamonuIlgarin Cave KastamonuGideros Bay Cide - KastamonuAlacahoyuk Tumulus - Corum ( Hattushash, the capital city of Hittites )İskilip Rock Graves - CorumCorum Castle - CorumMurad-i Rabi Ulu Mosque - CorumIncesu Canyon - CorumCorum Museum - CorumSinop Castle SinopSinop Ethnography Museum SinopSinop Historical Prison MuseumBalatlar Church SinopBoyabat Castle Boyabat - Sinopİnceburun Lighthouse Sinopİnalti Cave SinopHamsilos Bay SinopKarakum Beach Sinop ( Blacksand Beach )Erfelek Waterfall SinopAs i mentioned before the Sinop will have a Nuclear Plant Area. Turkey will have two nuclear plant and one located in the forest. Here is the deforested area which were chosen for the Nuclear Plant:Yaliboyu Houses - AmasyaAmasya Low Bridge ( from Roman Period and it is almost under the water as you can see ) - AmasyaAmasya Castle - AmasyaClock Tower - AmasyaKing Rock Graves - AmasyaII.Bayezid Complex and Mosque - AmasyaKapi Agasi Madrasah - AmasyaPrinces Museum - AmasyaAmasya Archaeology&Mummy Museum - AmasyaBorabay Lake&Nature Park - AmasyaPiribaba Tomb - AmasyaFerhat Water Channel - Amasya ( It is a love story. Shirin was the only and beautiful daughter of the Lord. Ans Ferhat was a poor but handsome man. They fell in love. Lord accept just with one condition : Amasya has no clean water. If you bring the water here i will accept your marriage ! And this channel done by Ferhat. It is long story. But this is the main theme ! )Sabuncuoglu Medicine And Surgery Museum - AmasyaAtaturk First Step Monument and Park - SamsunThe park and monument is at the exact point where the founder of Turkish Republic steps from the Bandirma ship to land. He lives in the memories of our nation. He is immortal.National Struggle Park and Open Air Museum - SamsunAmisos Hill - Samsun ( Amisos is the Antique name of Samsun )You can see all Samsun from there and visit the King Graves of antiqueperiod.Tekkekoy Caves - SamsunAkdag Wintersport Center - SamsunYakakent Beach - SamsunGazi Museum - SamsunThe hotel which Mustafa Kemal Ataturk stay at Samsun converted to a museum.Kabaceviz Waterfall - SamsunSahinkaya Canyon - SamsunKizilirmak Bird Paradise Natural Reserve Area for Birds - SamsunGogceli Mosque ( Wooden Mosque build without nail, 800 years old ) - SamsunBallica Cave - TokatKaz Lake ( Goose Lake ) - TokatThe Lake is a Bird observation and Reserve area even its name came from the wild gooses it gives stopover place for many kinds of birds. The most seen kinds are Magpie, Black Stork, White Stork, Angit, Blackcurrant, Gray Heron, White Wagtail, Great White Heron, Mullet, Coot, Stray Bird, Cane, Grebe, Reed Nightingale, Blackbird, Duck species, Sandpiper, Sparrow, Starling, Red throat, Duckling Sparrow, Black Redstart, Lapwing, Spinning Wheel, Bewitching, Meadow Pipit in this reserve area.Sebastopolis Antique City And Thermal Waters Sulusaray - TokatThere is a project to carry out the Sulusaray town from the existing place where now up on the Sebastopolis Antique City. I hope it will done, so the archaeological studies speed up and whole of the antique city came under the sunlight.Almus Dam Lake&Tufantepe Hill - TokatZile Castle - TokatThis is the castle where Gaius Julius Caesar said that his very famous words : “ Veni, Vidi, Vici !”.Mahperi Hatun Caravanserai - TokatSulusokak Bazaar - Tokat900 years in 900 steps - TokatThis is a project done by the Tokat municapility. Go and see. Here are some pictures from the places which are in the project.Niksar - TokatZile - TokatBolaman Castle&Hazinedaroglu Mansion Fatsa - OrduTasbasi Church ( Stone Head Church ) - OrduPasaoglu Mansion - OrduCape Of Yason&Yason Church - OrduAybasti Pershembe Plateau - OrduChambashi Plateau - OrduChambashi Wintersport Center - OrduUlugol ( Ulu Lake ) - OrduGaga Lake ( Beak Lake ) - OrduChiseli Waterfall - OrduUnye Uzunkum Beach ( Unye Longsand Beach ) - OrduFatsa Beach - OrduGiresun Castle - GiresunGiresun Museum/Gogora Church - GiresunKapu Mosque ( Door Mosque ) - GiresunGiresun Island - GiresunTirebolu Castle - GiresunBedrama Castle - GiresunVirgin Maria Monestary - GiresunKumbet Plateau - GiresunKulakkaya Plateau - GiresunKuzalan Waterfall&Blue Lake Nature Park - GiresunHaci Mikdat Mosque - GiresunUluburun Beach ( Ulu Cape Beach ) - GiresunPasha Konagi Plateau ( Pasha Mansion Plateau ) - GiresunKale Mosque ( Castle Mosque ) - GiresunGiresun Municapility Beach - GiresunGiresun Children Library - GiresunShebinkarahisar Castle ( Screedmine North Castle ) - GiresunI do a research and found that the existing name exactly means what i wrote in english. Probably there was a screed mine and the castle protected it. And north becomes just about its direction. Bonus information Kara has double meaning in old Turkish black and north.Chatalagac Waterfall ( Furcate Tree Waterfall ) - GiresunKochkayasi Nature Park ( Ramrock Nature Park ) - GiresunChakrak Plateau&Church - GiresunZeytinlik Neighborhood ( Olive Garden Neighborhood ) - GiresunYou may see the old Giresun houses at this part of Giresun city.Bektash Plateau - GiresunEynesil Castle - GiresunSagrak Lake - GiresunAndoz Castle - GiresunAymac Promenade Area - GiresunGolyani Obasi / Golyani Nomad Tent ( Nomad Tent Beside the Lake ) - GiresunChamoluk Bektashbey Mosque - GiresunLimni Lake - GumushhaneTomara Waterfall - GumushhaneSatala Antique - GumushhaneChrome Valley&Antique City - GumushhaneSanta Ruins - GumushhaneOrumcek Forests ( Spider Forests ) - GumushhaneArtabel Lakes - GumushhaneZigana Wintersport Center - GumushhaneKaraca Cave - GumushhaneSarichichek Village Rooms/Houses ( Yellow Flower Village Rooms/Houses ) - Gumushhane ( 150 years old houses )Kov Castle - GumushhaneCanca Castle - GumushhaneKechi Castle ( Goat Castle ) - GumushhaneGumushhane Mansions - GumushhaneKadirga Plateau - GumushhaneEven the Kadirga Plateau are in Gumushhane province it is known more related to Trabzon province ( Trebizend ) and many of Trabzon citizens meet at this plateau especially at the Festival Time. The Festival started at the mid of July and ended at first week of August each year. So if you can organize your schedule to this three weeks of Summer an extraordinary folkloric revel and entertainment is waiting you there.Suleymaniye Neighborhood/Oldtown - GumushhaneChakir Lake ( Blue Lagoon ) - GumushhaneErikbeli Wintersport Center - GumushhaneAnother disputed area more the Erikbeli Plateau owned by Trabzon province but the wintersport center is in Gumushhane province ( as like Trabzon citizens claimed Kadirga Plateau but it is officially in Gumushhane province ).Kazıkbeli Plateau - GumushhaneOzen Rock Grave - GumushhaneTashkopru Plateau ( Stonebridge Plateau ) - GumushhaneCoruh River - Bayburt ( The best route for rafting )Dede Korkut Tomb - BayburtDede Korkut is the famous fairy tale and story teller which shows all signs of the Pre-Islamic traditions, conversion process to Islam and Post-Islamic traditions of Turks in his fairy tales and stories. Although he told his stories and tales orally, then all the stories were compiled and transcribed by others. So he is one of the most important figure about Turkish culture and language.Baksı Village Museum - BayburtPlease check the link to get more information: Baksı Museum - WikipediaIf you get the opportunity and time, i strongly advise you to visit this fabulous masterpiece with its own original architecture and all the exhibition in of it.This museum found by a man’s dream and extraordinary effort. I greet him with deep respect and love. Here i gave his short biography:Professor Hüsamettin Koçan was born at 1946 in Bayburt known very well as painter, trainer, founder of Baksi Museum. He graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting department. After receiving her master's degree and doctorate degree in arts at the same university, he establishes her own workshop in M.G.S.F and continues her studies as a faculty member. He worked as a dean at M.G.S.F between 1997-2005. His three-volume work titled “Visual History of Anatolia”, which he created in 1995, traces all the civilizations that have left their marks on Anatolian lands. He continued this position for 5 years as the first president of UPSD (International Plastic Arts Association) (1990-1995). In 2005, with his own efforts, he founded Baksi Museum in the city where he was born. Baksi Museum, known as one of Turkey's most important arts and culture institutions with the original architecture. To date, he has organized 44 personal painting exhibitions and many groups have participated in painting exhibitions.Bayburt Castle - BayburtAydintepe Underground City - BayburtHelva Village Ice Cave - BayburtChımagıl Cave - BayburtYakutiye Mosque - BayburtBent Hammam/Bent Turkish Bath - BayburtZigana Mountains - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Trabzon Coasts - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Uzungöl / Long Lake - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Sumela Monestary - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Ataturk Pavilion/Kiosque - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Trabzon Museum ( Kostaki Mansion ) - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Zagnos Valley - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Altindere Valley National Park - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Trabzon Castle - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Kuchuk Ayvasil Church/Little Ayvasil Church - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Chal Cave - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Gulbahar Hatun Mosque and Tomb - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Trabzon Meydani - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Trebizond Hagia Sofia Church/Museum - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Boztepe - Trabzon ( Trebizond )It is a little park and tea garden which have the best view of the city day&night.Trabzon Bazaars ( Bedesten&Kemeralti ) - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Fatih Mosque / Panagia Khrysokephalos Church - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Yeni Cuma Mosque / Agios Eugenios Church - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Nakip Mosque / Agios Andreas Church - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Iskender Pasha Mosque - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Kaymakli Monastery - Trabzon ( Trebizond )It was a formerly Armenian Monastery of the All-Saviour (arm. Ամենափրկիչ Վանք, Amenaprgič Vank).Kızlar Monastery / Monastery of Panagia Theoskepastos (the God-veiled Virgin) - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Kushtul Monastery / Monastery of Gregorios Peristereotas (gr. Ιερά Μονή του Αγίου Γεωργίου Περιστερεώτα, Ierá Moní tou Agíou Georgíou Peristereóta) - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Vazelon or Mashatlik Monastery / Monastery of Agios Savvas - Trabzon ( Trebizond )Rize Castle - RizeChamlihemshin Zil Castle - RizeBonus Info : Chamlihemshin is one of three counties of Turkey where were majority of the people who still spoke the East Armenian dialect, but muslim in faith ( West Armenian Dialect is in Istanbul and East Armenian dialect is in Republic of Armenia widely spoken by Armenians )Ayder Plateau - RizeAnzer Plateau - RizeThe plateau which is very famous with its own honey which can be produced in very limited quantities and sold very expensive. It is believed that this honey have healing effect on human body. So if you go there and if you can find - i am not sure you can find - do not be stingy and buy it, i advise it.Gito Plateau - RizePokut Plateau - RizeShenyuva Bridge ( Happy Nest Bridge ) - RizeThe Bridge was build at 1696 and still using by the people to cross over the wild river which stream under it.Palovit Waterfall - RizeFırtına Valley And River ( Storm Valley And River ) - RizeIt is another best route for rafting.Kıble Mountain Mosque - RizeGelin Tulu Waterfall ( Bridal Tulle Waterfall ) - RizeKachkar Mountains National Park - RizeKız Castle / Maiden Castle ( Ciha / Cixa Castle ) - RizeAtaturk House&Rize Ethnography Museum - RizAkyamach Waterfall&Naturepark - RizeHanduzu Plateau&Nature Park - RizePileki Cave - RizeChiftekopru Meles Plateau ( Doublebridge Meles Plateau ) - RizeZorkar Plateau - RizeIsirlik Nature Park - RizeElevit Plateau - RizeTunca Valley Nature Park - RizeCoruh River - ArtvinCoruh was a wild river which was one of the best rafting routes in Turkey. First you will see the old status of the river.Then this big dam build on Coruh River:And this is the last status of Coruh River. Before the dam the river was wide and deep and stream too much water on it. But now the river is tamed, if you can say it still a river.Barhal River - ArtvinAnother rafting route but not sure if any dam started to build on it.Atatepe - ArtvinHatila Valley&Nature Park - ArtvinDolishane ( Hamamli ) Church - ArtvinCehennemderesi Canyon/Hell Stream Canyon - ArtvinThe most dangerest canyon in the world.Artvin/Livane Castle - ArtvinSatlel Castle - ArtvinKaragol Sahara National Park ( Black/Dark Lake Sahara National Park ) - ArtvinOrtacalar Chifte Bridge/Ortacalar Couple Bridge - ArtvinMenchuna Waterfall - ArtvinYaylalar Village / Plateaus Village - ArtvinKafkasor Plateau&Promenade - ArtvinThis area use for the traditional&annual Caucasus (Kafkas in Turkish) Culture and Arts Festival which also contain the Bull Wrestling event.Salihbey Mosque built in 1792 - ArtvinOffroad - ArtvinFish Lake - ArtvinArsiyan Plateau Lakes Region and Floating Islands - ArtvinMacahel - ArtvinWhy should you visit Macahel? There is many reasons. Let i start. ( For Macahel part, i would like to send my greetings and my most sincere thanks for these knowledge to Duygu and Bilgehan who is the owner of NOMADDICTION | Travel & Experience Blog . At the end of my answer i found this website. It is so joyful and informative. I would like to thank for all those to them because of their love about traveling and learning. Since I used the information there in this section, I wanted their labor to be known. Thank you again, Duygu and Bilgehan. Thanks to you, I learned it. I really sent you my most sincere wishes.Turkey's precisely where it ends. Lower portion of Macahel are in Georgia and upper part of it in Turkey. Even it is the name of the region it has a meaning. Macahel means in Georgian hand and/or wrist. It takes its name from Camili Village in the center and 5 villages located similarly to 5 fingers around it: Duzenli, Efeler, Kayalar, Ugurkoy and Maral. Most of the people’s native language is Georgian and the people learns Turkish when they start to school.Macahel known its name with Turkey's proprietary bio-reserve area. According to the definition of UNESCO; biosphere reserves are the areas where practices for protecting biodiversity, economic development and conservation of cultural values ​​are tried, selected, presented and developed. Here Macahel is one of only 4000 odd bio-reserves in the world. Think of the importance.What is more ? Macahel is the only place in Turkey where the Caucasian race of bees lives. The feature of this bee is that, with their longer tongue, they can reach to the pollens even at the bottom of pollen plants. So they can collect more pollen comparing to the other bees, they produces 1.5 times more honey and can collect pollen from places where other bee breeds cannot.Turkey has the second largest bee population in whole world. But they are not so productive when we compare it other beekeeping and honey producing countries. In other words, despite the possibilities at hand, efficiency in production cannot be achieved. TEMA Foundation is also working to reproduce this specific bee species in this region. They organize seminars that raise awareness of beekeepers and honey producers, teach methods to increase efficiency, and try to expand the Caucasian bee race in the beekeeping industry. Turkey’s main problem of beekeeping is that we have three bee races in the rest of our country but uneducated beekeeper mixed the races and this resulted with less production of honey.What can be said for Macahel is not limited by its nature. We should also talk about the environmentally conscious people of this place: Think of a place; the beekeeper said, "Women should be positive discrimination," and the peasant says, "If I use chemical in the field, when my neighbor's bee is put, he mixes with his honey, goes down to the ground with rain, mixes into the groundwater, drinks the animals that live there, chaining the entire ecosystem collapses." Imagine such a place that even in a village where 6 families live, the level of education is high enough to attract 26 university graduates.In Artvin's Camili Village, there is the Macahel Elders Polyphonic Choir, consisting of local artists with an average age of 68, and this choir is registered as a "Living Human Treasure" by UNESCO. Each individual of the choir is registered in the Living Human Treasure. Nobody in the choir has received professional music training. They attend village weddings and ceremonies and sing polyphonic Macahel songs.So on if you have time i strongly advise you to go Macahel and be part of it for a time.Delikli Kaya Waterfall ( Perforated Rock Waterfall ) - ArtvinFour Church Monastery/Dortkilise Manastiri/Οκτώ Εκκλησιαστικά Μοναστήρια - ArtvinEven the Turkish name is four it is eight churches not four. LOLHopa - ArtvinThis is the end of Turkey and beginning of Georgia.Dear Tufshin Dash it is the end. You saw Black Sea Coast of Turkey. You decide it, if it touristy or not. On my mind this coast is a golden mine for tourists. Because it is hidden treasure, just the natives of Turkey knew its beauty.Approximately 11 or 12 years ago me and my wife decided to do a long trip which contain all of these beautiful coast. But unfortunately we could not.I hope soon we can do this great jorney to the whole Black Sea Coast. Even some parts we went many times, but whole of it, no we could not. Hope we do soon.Maybe you want to join us.Maybe you will do this Black Sea tour alone in the order which i sent you.I hope you will. It's a wonderful place.No need to go to Amazon, Africa or the island of Borneo to see the rainforest. It is a place that has been raining for a great part of the year, a lot of snow in winter, a place where you can swim on its beautiful beaches, a place where history meets nature, a place with warm and cheerful people; It is a very special place.It is so rich in beauty that unfortunately I could not mention its unique cuisine, folklore and culture. Come on, ask me one more question. Ask the Black Sea cuisine in this question. Let me tell you about the unique dishes of each province in the Black Sea.And last, i hope you enjoy from all which i share you.

Well, I’ll examine each of them. Right now, I’ve covered expansion and game packs, but I’ll try to add stuff packs a little later.ExpansionsGet to Work-4/10World: It comes with a world named Magnolia Promenade, but it’s not really a world. It’s a place with 4 shopping venues that you can buy or build in order to participate in the retail career. That’s all that you can really do there. I mean, you can tear it down and create a new, tiny world but there won’t be much to do in it. It’s sort of meant to be an unofficial expansion of Willow Creek (that’s how little effort they were putting in at this point).Create a Sim: The items aren’t really worth the money. There isn’t much new stuff you’ll be getting and most of the outfits are unlocked through the careers. There’s a cheat to bypass that, but it’s not worth it in my opinion.Build and Buy Mode: Once again, there’s really not much here. This is the most empty expansion in the game. Most of the stuff from this pack just furnishes the venues for the new careers. Very few things can be transitioned into an actual home build, but if you like building public lots you might like the items. There are a few nice columns, gates, windows, and doors for build mode.Gameplay: Decent. It’s the first pack and you can tell they really wanted to see if they could get away with the bare minimum. There are 4 careers. You can become a scientist, doctor, or detective and go to a work venue with your sims. If you perform all your tasks throughout the day you can advance up the ranks pretty quickly and entertain yourself. You can also buy a retail venue and sell baked goods, clothes, furniture, collectibles, or anything you can really think of. The retail store requires you to make sales and it can work in tandem with other packs if you want to have a spellcaster that owns a potion store for example. But the careers get boring after a while and the novelty wears off as soon as you’ve completed all the professions. It’s also annoying because you can’t really get promoted easily without going to work. And if you’re playing with a family you might not always want to join the person who has an active career, so you might not even end up using the pack too much unless you really enjoy the professions. You can also get the same satisfaction from the vet clinic business from Cats & Dogs or the restaurant-owning business from Dine Out (Cats & Dogs adds much more to your game and Dine Out is half the price of this pack, I might remind you).I also got all the way down to Island Living without remembering this pack came with aliens. They can’t really do anything special other than a couple of special social interactions. The most exciting thing that can happen with aliens is an abduction that will leave your sim pregnant, but it took 2 years for that to happen to me, so...Get Together-6.5/10World: Windenburg is definitely one of the best worlds in the game. It’s huge. It’s beautiful. It has a modern and historical side. It’s large enough that you can actually walk around your neighborhood and get out of the house without traveling. It has a lot of community lots. There are multiple starter homes. It’s top-notch. I never really paid attention to it that much and I can definitely say now that every time I play in Windenburg I find a new, fun thing to do.Create a Sim: It adds some pretty nice clothes and hairs into the game. There’s not much for toddlers and children, but otherwise, there are some fun additions to CAS. It’s definitely not the best pack to get if CAS items are what you care about, though. This pack comes with a dance machine trait and the dancing skill, as well.Build and Buy Mode: Just like the CAS items, there’s not a huge amount that’s added to Build and Buy mode. But I think there are a couple of really nice items and I like the fact that it adds closets to the game. Closets are mostly useless since you can’t even plan or switch outfits with them (you can only woohoo or play dress up in them), but they’re a good way to make bedrooms and entryways seem more realistic by making it seem like your home has storage.Gameplay: I don’t live a social life (not in The Sims and not in the real world) so I don’t often use the clubs or groups. It can be fun if you like your sims to be social. And you can create groups if you want to customize them for whatever reason (I saw someone use them to create recurring family reunions, bookclubs, and sororities for example). The only time I really use groups is when I have children or teens since there aren’t really many options available to keep them entertained. The League of Adventurers is a group for kids to go and play on the playground if you want children to make friends. And you can also put your teens in cliques. The Renegades are like rebels and the Paragons are the popular, fashionable group, so that’s fun.City Living-9/10World: San Myshuno is a very wonderful place. It’s actually perfect for the most part. There aren’t many community lots, unfortunately, but there are more than enough residential lots. There are also districts (fashion, art, food & spice, and a financial district for the rich people) that can help your sims have a more personalized lifestyle. My only complaint is the fact that there are so many bars, that could’ve been literally any other community lot at all.Create a Sim: There are a lot of beautiful items in CAS that can be used for all ages (other than children and toddlers because they were trying to force us to buy those stuff packs). The only thing is a lot of the items are very high-fashion so they can be hard to utilize. If you like your sims realistic with jeans, t-shirts, sweatpants, and yoga pants this isn’t gonna be your favorite. But if you want items that are colorful and have an Asian-inspired feel, this is the pack for you.Build and Buy Mode: This is the pack that EA finally got into their groove with. There are quite a few nice items in this pack. The items are mostly modern, colorful and international, or old and dirty. It’s to fit in with all the different apartments and the fact that San Myshuno has a lot of Asian-inspired fashions and furniture.Gameplay: This doesn’t add too much gameplay outside of San Myshuno. Basically, you get apartments with lot traits (I think lot traits as a whole are free though). Unfortunately, you can’t create real apartments in this game so they only exist in San Myshuno, Evergreen Harbor, and there’s a fake one in Brindleton Bay. You also get the chance to interact with your neighbors and they can end up throwing loud parties at night which will wake you up and force you to wait until they’re done or bang on their door and yell at them about it (or you could be loud and annoying and they’ll come to yell at you). You get these festivals in the four districts that you can take part in for entertainment (Humor & Hijinks for comedians and mischievous sims, GeekCon for Gaming and Science nerds, Love Festival for couples, and Spice Festival for snacks, and the Flea Market so you can go purchase furniture). You can start singing karaoke. You can also get invitations from your friends to go to concerts and art shows but they’re rabbit holes so you can’t really enjoy them. It’s pretty fun, but, once again, you have to travel to San Myshuno for most of those events. It also adds the Art Critic, Food Critic, Social Media, and Political careers, which are all very fun when you’re trying to decide what your sim’s goals and personality are.Side note: You can create apartments unofficially. You can build an apartment complex and furnish two different “units.” Then, you can create a household and have the sims live separately while staying on the same lot and controlling both their actions. You can enhance this by getting a roommate so you don’t have to control them, as well. The only thing you miss out on is the slightly reduced rent when you’re in an apartment and the extra simoleons you’d start with by not purchasing your house.Cats & Dogs-9/10World: Brindleton Bay is a nice world. It’s one of the last decent worlds to be added to the game until Snowy Escape came out and I like that, once again, the neighborhoods are actually large enough to go for a stroll with your dog (especially the beach area). The homes are a nice style, but the only problem I have, once again, is a lack of decent community lots. I know there’s not much to do since you kind of have to buy packs if you want more options for entertainment, but it’s still annoying.Create a Sim: There are really nice options if you want to make proudly animal-loving sims or if you want to make suburban sims. I think that the items and hairs are pretty useful for your game, but this isn’t a pack to buy just for the CAS items. This pack comes with a cat lover and dog lover trait.Build and Buy Mode: The items from this pack are more for traditional or family builds. There are also some really nice items for your pets (though a lot of the cutest ones are restricted to My First Pet Stuff, which is a scam). Once again, the items aren’t the worst or best, they’re in the middle. This pack adds a lot of things but none of them are super, wildly, groundbreakingly amazing.Gameplay: The gameplay is everything you’d expect. You can add cats and dogs to your game, which is phenomenal and really makes the game feel more realistic. You can customize them in CAS any way you want (and even make different animals like lions unofficially by customizing a dog to look like it) and give them traits. You can also adopt them on the computer, but you won’t be able to customize them without cheats. You can also train your pets to start or stop acting in certain ways once you get to Live Mode. Cats can jump on counters, which is cool. You can’t control pets, unlike the Sims 3. Other than that, there’s a Vet Clinic career. You can buy a vet clinic business (just like Get to Work) and upgrade it as you get more experience and staff. Whenever you want, you can go into the clinic and perform tasks to help all of the sick animals that come in for treatment. After enough work (or after enough motherlodes), you’ll be able to just open the clinic from your house without traveling to it and the employees will do all the work for you. Then you can literally just sit at home while the clinic operates and collect your daily profits without even showing up. And, as an average sim, your pets can get sick which will require you to travel to the vet clinic so they can get treatment.Seasons-8.5/10World: The fact that this pack doesn’t come with a world keeps it from being a 10. Since it doesn’t have a world, it can almost be a game pack. And the fact that weather interacts with the world you play in means they could’ve done something really fun with a new world’s weather.Create a Sim: This one adds a few nice items. Most of the new additions are for the hot and cold weather categories that are now added to Sims’ outfits.Build and Buy Mode: The Seasons items are very beautiful (once again there’s no kitchen set, though). But almost every other room gets some beautiful new items with gorgeous wood tones and pretty colors. There are also a couple of holiday items, water balloon containers, thermostats, roller/ice-skating rinks, and umbrella racks. There are also some great doors and window sets. Extra points because there’s a furniture set for every room.Gameplay: This pack really shines with its gameplay. Every world has a distinct weather pattern (Oasis Springs gets severe weather in the summer and has mild weather in winter, which is the opposite of what happens in Willow Creek) that can affect your gameplay. When it’s hot you might wanna go out and have a waterballon fight. When it’s cold you might wanna build a snowman and have a snowball fight. If you can’t afford to cool your house, you might wanna go to the pool in summer. And it also adds holidays. There are a few generic holidays pre-made in your game, but you can delete them and create your own, personalized holidays with personalized activities. So, there’s a whole new level of customization and entertainment this adds to the game automatically (especially if you want to include religious holidays). Kids and teens can also join the scouts, which gives them something to do, encourages them to gain a bunch of different skills to earn badges, and they can earn a scouter’s trait that makes them earn skills faster.Get Famous-7/10…barelyWorld: Del Sol Valley is a beautiful world that had a lot of potential, which was horrendously squandered. I feel like the developers were halfway through making the world and they just got bored or ran out of money because there’s, like, 12 lots. That’s it. It seems like a game pack world, but it’s at an expansion pack price. And every celebrity mansion is either ugly or designed in a non-sensical way, so…yeah, I hate it.Create a Sim: There are some great CAS items (not many decent hairs or toddler outfits) for adults, elders, and children. Once again, most of them are flashy and high-fashion so they’re not the most versatile but they do allow for some creativity when making your sims. And I like that you can basically dress your children in Versace if you want to because that’s realistic when you’re sim is a celebrity. This pack comes with a self-absorbed trait.Build and Buy Mode: There are some nice, versatile, normal, mid-century modern pieces of furniture. Then there are the flashy, over-the-top ones that you can’t really use often (like the golden toilet). I love rich sims and it’s fun to make a tacky mansion every now and then, but I don’t know if this is a pack to buy exclusively for Build & Buy mode when there are packs like Eco Lifestyle that do a better job.Gameplay: The getting famous premise is one that I like. You become a celebrity, get noticed, and gain a reputation. You can get a good reputation or a bad one and that affects your social life and random opportunities. You also get perks and quirks as you gain fame (so a sim might have a lot of sponsorships from the social media profession, but they might also be glued to their phone and feel tense if they don’t use it). And it works well with other packs and the base game. All the careers from City Living are easy to get famous with, you can become a famous painter, writer, dancer (if you have Get Together), singer and songwriter, comedian, and all that. You can also join the Acting career, which is extremely fun and interesting (it works just like the Get to Work pack without buying Get to Work). You can also use the video station and drone to basically record and create YouTube videos. You can also become a producer and get paid to basically make beats/songs. The only problem I have is that you can’t get famous by being a professional athlete. Why? Why? Why? In every profession, you get the random option to do something that will give you a star of fame, but probably cause you to lose your job or get demoted. But after you gain that star (unless you have one of the skills I mentioned before), you have no way to maintain your fame and you fizzle out. I do like that kids can get famous pretty easily if they become YouTubers since you can have your kids become the only famous member of the family or you can have famous parents’ kids go on to become famous. This pack also adds the drama club after-school activity in case you want your kids to become an actor/actress later down the line (not like it helps them do that any easier though). Overall, it’s a fun premise as long as the idea of becoming rich and famous interests you.Island Living-7/10World: Sulani is gorgeous. The homes are gorgeous, the style is different from anything in any other pack, and the premise of a tropical archipelago is so interesting. There are only 3 community lots (2 beaches and 1 bar), so you’ll get bored quickly. But now that we have vacation worlds, you can treat this as a vacation world if you want or you can evict some natives and create a few more public venues. I like the fact that you can go swimming, boating, or jetskiing around though.Create a Sim: There are a lot of really pretty items for both genders (not for the children or toddlers as much, but they do get a tiny bit of love). I especially love the female clothing and hairs since they’re so pretty, flowy, and effortless. They also add two traits. One means your sim likes to swim and hates fishing since they’re a child of the ocean. Another lets you summon island spirits that you can interact with in exchange for rewards.Build and Buy Mode: There are some nice items that have a tropical or bohemian feel. The hardwood floors are amazing. The rugs are great. The patio and backyard furniture is pretty good. There’s also a new cooking object that lets you make special meals and a new fish trap you can put in the water. You can also build houses onto the water on stilts, which opens up a lot of new opportunities to be creative. It comes with a kitchen set, as well, and that’s rare. I also love the doors and windows. Extra points because there’s a furniture set for every room.Gameplay: There’s not much gameplay. The novelty of the beaches and the ability to swim wore off pretty quickly for me, but it might be perfect for other people. Seasons really helps out with this pack since it forces you to wear hot weather outfits and everything. There are also mermaids, which are pretty but barely have any powers (they can control the weather, sing songs that influence people’s emotions, summon sharks to attack people that are swimming, or use a siren call to lure people to the water and drown them non-fatally in order to increase their needs). You can interact with island spirits, but that’s not fleshed out. You can do water-related activities like diving and boating. It’s definitely fun, but you have to be into it to have the motivation to use it.Discover University-8.5/10World: Britechester is weird. There’s a college on the left and another college on the right. In the middle, there’s a small (emphasis on small) town with 3 houses, a library, and a bar. The schools are great, so I don’t get why they couldn't have a sorority and fraternity area or a club or something instead of the town since I personally never use it unless I’m attending the universities.Create a Sim: The CAS options are honestly amazing (not for children and toddlers, though). This pack finally comes with jeans, yoga pants, sweatpants, graphic t-shirts, long-sleeved shirts, overalls, and sweaters. There are nice hairs (especially the short locks in the picture). I love this pack’s CAS options since they’re so normal and they make sims seem more realistic. I also love the preppy outfits that the pack comes with.Build and Buy Mode: Most of the options are to furnish the dorms. There are some traditional items for the Britechester University dorms and housing and there are some modern items for the Foxbury Institute dorms and housing. They’re not my favorite, but they added mini-fridges I guess. The couch can also become a cool sectional if you use moveobjects.Gameplay: I think there’s a lot of great things in this pack. First, you have to pay to go to school which is realistic. But you can get scholarships based on your skills, need, and academic progress so far or you can just get loans to pay it off. You can also join the soccer or e-sports (video games) team for a scholarship as long as you go to team practices and games, which are almost every day. You can attend school on-campus or from home. There are dorms and a shared house on campus and you’ll have to walk to your classrooms every day (which are rabbit holes when you get there). But if you study from home your sim will just disappear like they do when they go to work at their job. I like the fact that you can attend school from home since you can keep your day job or raise your kids while you’re completing your classes. It’s actually really fun to raise your teens with skills and then send them off to college if you like to play generational games.In addition, getting a degree will offer you more pay and a higher position when you start on a job. One university specializes in science and math. One specializes in communications and the arts. And there are university organizations that you can join for some perks. There’s the robot builders (this pack comes with a bot building skill that lets you build servos (an unofficial occult sim that can join your family) along with robots that clean and garden), there’s a group that’s basically the overachievers, there’s the spirit squad, there’s the debate guild, there's the art society, and there’s a secret society that worships magic fairies that help you succeed in life in exchange for your eternal service.I like the gameplay in this pack, but I have three problems. First, there are bugs. When it was released, it was almost impossible to play on campus since your sims wouldn’t walk or bike to their class on time. Even if they did walk to the class they wouldn’t go into the building. It’s gotten better, but it still does happen sometimes and you might fail your class because of it. Also, degrees take so long to get that you’re only going for the experience. You could honestly get farther in your career by going to work immediately instead of going to college. I also hate that there are no sororities or fraternities. You can fake this if you own Get Together, but it’s so sad.Eco Lifestyle-5.5/10World: Evergreen Harbor has a great premise. There’s a polluted, industrial district, a green district, and a normal district. It can also be upgraded through gameplay to become a lot prettier or to just become a polluted wasteland. The community spaces have the potential to become extremely beautiful. And there are apartments along with some nice residential homes, but there’s just nothing to do. There are 3 community spaces and a bar, so what can you really do for entertainment?Create a Sim: There are some really nice hairs. This pack actually comes with a couple of scraps thrown at the children and toddlers. Some of the adult and teen clothes are very cute, but a lot of the stuff is tacky since the whole pack is about recycling and wearing garbage. It also adds a trait where your sim hates to work and prefers to scrounge up money any way they can from home. There’s also a green fiend trait that means your sim hates pollution. There’s also a trait that means your sim likes making things with the new activity machines.Build and Buy Mode: This pack is probably the best from a Build & Buy standpoint. There are so many amazing items. And if you cheat to unlock the hidden items that come with the fabrication skill, you get access to even more phenomenal items. Most of it’s modern, which I personally love. There are also some great floors in this pack. The doors and windows are amazing, as well, if you love glass and modern stuff.Gameplay: There’s not much gameplay with this pack. You get options to use a vertical garden, dumpster dive, make soda, make furniture, and make candles if you want to make money from home. This pack also comes with a city developer profession that’s decently entertaining. The main thing that comes with this pack is the Neighborhood Action Plans. You can basically vote on activities that the neighborhood supports by earning these influence points that let you vote or encourage someone else to vote a certain way. The N.A.Ps are mainly useful in Evergreen Harbor since it lets you upgrade the neighborhood to make it look prettier and vote on community spaces so that they become flea markets to sell the items you make, a community garden, or a maker space that has all the objects needed to fabricate the furniture and candles and stuff. You can vote to make the neighborhood go green (which could raise the cost of your taxes) or industrialize (which could increase your pay in certain careers). Other than that, they’re hard to work with in other neighborhoods since they encourage certain activities, but you can make a university campus encourage drinking, playing instruments, working out, and performing romantic interactions with strangers. Or you could encourage people to steal items that are left unattended when you’re in the city.Snowy Escape-7/10World: Mt. Komorembi is a beautiful world. It’s really pretty and it has these little areas where you can go on hikes or jogs and potentially meet mystical spirits. I’ve never met the spirits, but I hear they exist. One neighborhood also has a pond you can swim and fish in, which is interesting. This whole world has very few community lots, but at least you can go on those strolls for fun. There are also festivals and the ability to mountain-climb and snowboard/ski/sled to keep your sims entertained.Create a Sim: There are some truly magnificent items in this pack, but most of them are meant for cold weather, of course. There are a few nice items for toddlers and children, as well. This pack takes a lot of inspiration from Japan, too, so there’s a lot of traditional clothing added to the game if you want to play your game with more diversity. This pack also adds the adventurous trait.Build and Buy Mode: The Japan-inspired town means that there are a lot of new items that will expand your build & buy options. But most of the items are just modern with symmetrical, orderly designs and neutral colors, so they’re easy to transition into any kind of build. There’s also a pretty, new kitchen set for once, but it doesn’t come with upper cabinets for some reason. Extra points because there’s a furniture set for every room.Gameplay: Mt. Komorembi is a nice place to live. The pack also comes with nice items. That’s about it. If you think you’d often choose to go do the snow-related activities, then you might like this pack. It also adds a career that is very similar to the Business career that comes with the base game. This pack also adds three festivals (one for snow activities, one for the dead and history, and one for children). Kids can also sled and I believe they can snowboard so there’s finally an activity for them. There’s also a hot pot…pot. Other than that, this pack doesn’t add much to your game. If you want to play the Sims and enjoy a vaguely authentic Japanese experience (aka a couple of things EA thinks are authentically Japanese), I think this pack might be a good fit. But it’s kind of unfair that people have to pay EA for any semblance of substantial cultural representation.Game PacksOutdoor Retreat-4/10World: It comes with a vacation world. That’s a world that you can only travel to for up to 7 days at a time. You also have to pay to rent a property while you’re there. Granite Falls is a little less than you’d expect from a camping world. This is a game pack and all game pack worlds are just tiny culdesacs. There’s no community lot to go do a bunch of outdoor activities with other campers. There are just log cabins and the prospect of fishing, finding collectibles, and exercising (all of which you can do with the base game)Create a Sim: The CAS items are laughably bad, but they do add a few nice pairs of hiking/combat boots if you think those are worth $20.Build and Buy Mode: There aren’t even bear skin rugs, so…I don’t think that this is the perfect expansion in this area. There are a lot of items that fall under the log cabin aesthetic. There are also tents, blow-up mattresses, and coolers that you can buy if those are of interest to you. There’s also an ax-throwing and horseshoe ring. I think that the Jenga game comes from this pack.Gameplay: There’s not much here that you can do. If you like camping, you might like this pack. But I wouldn’t bet on it because you can’t do many new camping-related activities. The only new hobby is herbalism, which lets you collect herbs to make medicines. I’d say the only thing I (as someone who doesn’t like the idea of camping) would do is make a scouting camp for a bunch of kids to go to as a sort of scouting activity in the summer.Side note: This pack adds, like, three activities so you can honestly just create a fake camping spot in Newcrest and just go there since vacation lots are free now.Spa Day-6.5/10World: None.Create a Sim: There are some nice hairs and some really amazing athleisure items in this pack. I mainly use it for athletic wear and the sneakers it comes with.Build and Buy Mode: There are some nice wall and floor coverings. There are a few nice items that are very sleek and modern. There’s a nice bathroom set. There’s a backlit mirror, which I love since everyone seems to have one of those in real life thanks to mirror selfie culture. Other than that, there’s not much other than the new spa items.Gameplay: This is a nice pack if you want to give your sims something to do. Even by replacing a gym with a combination gym and spa, you can find a nice way to relax by getting a message, meditating, doing yoga, and going to the sauna. They even let you have bath soaks at home if you want to have an at-home yoga and self-care day. This also works very well with rich or famous sims since you can put all the necessary spa items in their mansions.Dine Out-8/10World: None.Create a Sim: There are a few hairs and formal outfits. The clothes are mostly just uniforms.Build and Buy Mode: There are a couple of items for the restaurants. Chairs, tables, booths, and all that. There’s no kitchen set, unfortunately.Gameplay: This pack lets you open and run a restaurant (similar to Get to Work) or just place a restaurant that your sims can go grab a bite at. If you have access to the gallery or some patience, you can create diners, not-so-fast food, and 5-star restaurants that serve any type of food or drink that we have in the game. All it does is give your sims something to do, but it’s nice since you can go to family dinners, dinner dates, or just go out to eat with some friends.Vampires-8/10World: Forgotten Hollow is a tiny, tiny, tiny world. It looks decently ominous, but I just don’t think it’s anything special.Create a Sim: There are a few items that aren’t really that special. The items, overall, are meant to click with every vampire archetype that you can create. The modern, brooding vampire. The old-timey vampire that hasn’t gotten in touch with the modern age. The fancy, wealthy vampire. The monstrous vampire that wears all black. The femme fatale vampire. It’s hard to make use of these items often, to be honest.Build and Buy Mode: There’s a kitchen set for once, but it doesn’t have upper cabinets. The items are meant to be gothic and old-school in order to go along with the vampiric theme. There are actually a lot of nice items, so I don’t think the pack is a disappointment on this front. Extra points because there’s a furniture set for every room.Gameplay: Where this pack shines is the vampire gameplay. Your vampires have a bar that fills up as they use their powers. They gain experience and rank up as that bar fills, unlocking new powers (but forcing them to pick a weakness to go along with them). As you get more powers, vampiric life becomes more restricted. You can also become a vampire hunter by gaining the new vampiric lore skill and manufacturing cures so that you can kill all the vampires in your world. Vampires also have a meter that drains as they use their powers or as they sit in the sunlight (though sunlight immunity is an attainable power).Parenthood-8/10World: None.Create a Sim: The items are pretty decent. They’re very low-key, normal, realistic items that look like clothes you would wear around the house or while you’re out running errands. Toddlers and children get some nice items for once.Build and Buy Mode: There are quite a few really nice items in this pack. There’s some nice stuff for kids' rooms, a great kitchen set, a perfect living room set, and the best refrigerator in the game. Extra points because there’s a furniture set for every room.Gameplay: You have to remember that this isn’t Generations, it’s only parenthood. There are some great additions to the game. Kids and teens will go through random mood swings that alter their emotions and behavior. Toddlers, kids, and teens will also gain these meters for their responsibility, empathy, manners, etc. that will rise or fall based on your actions as a care provider. Sims can also become better care providers by raising their parenting skill. There’s also a chore chart you can use that I forgot about. This pack is all about the gameplay.Jungle Adventure-8/10World: There’s only a vacation world. But it’s probably one of the most beautiful vacation worlds in the game so it’s a shame you can’t live there for more than a week at a time. It’s a really nice place with a Latin American theme and a bunch of hidden, ancient ruins for you to explore if you want. Or you can just sit in a vacation home and enjoy a nice weekend away from home.Create a Sim: Lackluster. There’s just not that much here other than nice hairstyles and outfits meant for wilderness exploration.Build and Buy Mode: This is an amazing game pack for furniture. There are item sets for pretty much every single room category. I can’t stress enough how nice the furniture is because even if you don’t like the vintage, kind of mission style furniture there’s some other objects that are more versatile. And the tiles and wood floors from this pack are amazing. Extra points because there’s a furniture set for every room. Extra, extra points because the kitchen set has upper cabinets, which is rare.Gameplay: As is the case with a lot of game packs, it isn’t the most versatile. You can basically go to Selvadorada and explore the wilderness. Based on your skills (fitness, Selvadoradian culture, logic, etc.) you can go into rabbit holes that will take you to all kinds of new, hidden areas. There are also a lot of ancient, booby-trapped ruins that you can explore in order to find treasure. The explorations are also very dangerous since a lot of interactions can be fatal or lead to minor curses. With the archaeology skill, you can examine your treasure and eventually sell it for money (and fame if you have Get Famous). You can also craft these magic totems that can be helpful or harmful to your sim and anyone else in their world. It’s really fun, but not something that will get used too often, unless you’re really into it.Strangerville-4/10World: There’s a nice world called Strangerville that reminds me of a Texan desert. The houses are kind of ugly. The world is quite small. There aren’t many lots that can become community lots without looking out of place. But the world is pretty underneath all that. The only problem is the Strangerville story can’t be turned off. Unless you play through the story and keep it saved somewhere, you’ll either have to play the story again or deal with the zombies shuffling around any time you wanna play with a normal family in the town. This is a lot harder if you’re a console player, so just be aware of that.Create a Sim: The clothes are either from the military career, meant to make you seem like a conspiracy theorist, or meant to fit the kinda Texan feel of the town. There aren’t many options, but it’s not horrible if that’s what you want from it.Build and Buy Mode: There really isn’t much that this pack offers as far as building and furnishing. But I like the doors and windows.Gameplay: This lets you play the Strangerville story, which is inspired by Stranger Things. You basically collect clues, break into a mysterious lab, then fight the evil, alien thingy that’s causing all the people in town to become zombies. It’s very fun the first time you do it, but it’s not something that’s easily replayable. Most people only play it once or twice, and that’s weird because it’s $20.Realm of Magic-8/10World: There’s a teeny, tiny world. But the world is extremely beautiful, whimsical, and has a lovely feel. There’s also a second world called the magical dimension or something that looks really pretty even though the big magic fortress is ugly.Create a Sim: The CAS items are fun. I like the gothic, dark academia feel of the clothes. And there are some nice earrings. Not the most versatile items, but I love them for certain sims.Build and Buy Mode: There’s an old-timey, magical, Hogwarts-ish feel to the items in this pack that I really love on certain occasions. Once again, these aren’t versatile items so you might not use them often unless this sounds like your style. Extra points because there’s a furniture set for every room.Gameplay: Spellcasters are pretty fun. There are 4 magic branches that you can learn from either through your own experimentation or by seeking tutoring from a master in the magic realm. There’s untamed (cool, flashy, magic spells like blasting people with lightning or bringing back the dead), practical (cooking, gardening, cleaning, repairing instantly), mischief (turning people into monsters or teddy bears and playing with their emotions), and potionmaking. This lets you create some variety based on a sim’s personality and it can be quite fun. The only problem I have is the fact that all spellcasters can do the same thing. What I like about vampires is the fact that they’ll only earn a limited number of powers most of the time and you have to choose weaknesses in order to get your powers. That makes each vampire feel more unique in comparison to spellcasters.