KASTABALA 

Ceyhan Nehri'nin Aslantaş Barajı ile Hemite köyü arasındaki bölümü, adını Kastabala antik kentinden alıyor Buradaki Kırmıtlı Sulak Alanı, Mart 2007'de kuş cenneti ilan edildi.

    INSTANTS

If I could live again my life,
    In the next - I'll try,
    - to make more mistakes,
    I won't try to be so perfect,
    I'll be more relaxed,
    I'll be more full - than I am now,
    In fact, I'll take fewer things seriously,
    I'll be less hygenic,
    I'll take more risks,
    I'll take more trips,
    I'll watch more sunsets,
    I'll climb more mountains,
    I'll swim more rivers,
    I'll go to more places - I've neverbeen,
    I'll eat more ice creams and less(lime) beans,
    I'll have more real problems - andless imaginary
                                           ones,
    I was one of those people who live
                   prudent and prolific lives -
                           each minute of his life,
    Offcourse that I had moments of joy - but,
     if I could go back I'll try

to have only good moments,

    If you don't know - thats what life is made of,
    Don't lose the now! 

    I was one of those who never goes anywhere
                    without a thermometer,
    without a hot-water bottle,
     and without an umberella and without a parachute,

    If I could live again - I will travel light,
    If I could live again - I'll try to work bare feet
                    at the beginning of spring till 
                      the end of autumn,
    I'll ride more carts,
    I'll watch more sunrises and play with more children,
    If I have the life to live - but now I am 85,
            - and I know that I am dying ...

Jorge Luis BORGES