How to get out Battalgazi
Karakaya Dam (Turkish: Karakaya Barajı; locally baraj for short) — a ride of 20 minutes further north through verdant apricot orchards, you can reach the banks of the Karakaya Dam lake, a favourite fishing spot of the locals at the weekends. While there are no businesses on the coast (no restaurants or cafes; save for a ferry harbour), the view of grayish serene waters backed by dramatically rising treeless mountains on the opposite shore is quite worth the effort to get there. And it could be a nice watersports spot if it weren't visibly somewhat polluted.
Public bus line #B1, as well as most, if not all, of the minibuses from Malatya continue on to the dam lake after Battalgazi. The bus/minibus fare is fixed (1.25 TL) and doesn't depend on where you caught it (i.e., downtown Battalgazi, or all the way from Malatya).
A crossing of the lake takes around 20 minutes by ferries, which depart at 7:30AM, 11AM, 3:30PM daily from the harbour on Battalgazi side (with return voyages at 8AM, 1PM, 5PM). They accept both vehicles and foot passengers, however, they depart whenever their vehicular capacity is full without waiting for the departure time to come, so show up at least half an hour before the scheduled departure if you are a traveller with no vehicle. The road from the harbour on the opposite banks leads to the town of Baskil and further on to Elazığ, but note that this is quite a remote route and the main highway to Elazığ leads east from Malatya, crossing the dam lake by a bridge.
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The Most Frequently Asked Travel Questions about Battalgazi
