Again, we had a very good sleep in our cave house. But it was time to explore the surroundings! Cappadocia is famous for its beautiful walks (well.. walking is not the best description, it’s more a combination of climbing and…

Its 4 o’clock in the morning when the alarm sounds. We were asked to call Lars, from Kapadokya Balloons in Goreme, to see if he had some space left in one of the baskets. We were exited as the Cappadocia…

We had to leave early to Erzurum as we had a 850 km drive ahead of us from Cappadocia. This meant more then 12 hours of driving as our maximum speed is 80 k an hour and the average speed…

We had slept better then we expected and headed to the Iranian Consulate. Oh bummer…. its Friday and that means most offices are closed. Fortunately they are open on Saturdays so we can pick it up tomorrow, we hope. It…

Some days, you will never forget and tell your grandchildren about until they really get bored of it. Today was one of those days. At around nine we took a taxi to the Consulate of Iran to pick up our…

Today I finally came round to it. I, Elles, have been to a real Turkish Hamam, a public bathhouse to have a complete scrub. I was a bit afraid, although we went their yesterday already, just to inform anyway how…

We could have applied for our Iranian visa in Holland, if we had the time to wait for 3 months. Since it is a pretty expensive document and we weren’t to sure if we were able to drive through Iran…

We got our visa for Iran early in the morning and were happy to leave Erzurum! Before heading towards Iran we headed north to the Turkish-Armenian border to visit Ani, the ruins of what once was a big city that…

On the way from Ani to Dogubayazit we took a road along the Armenian border. This road appears to be closed at night as the area attracts many smugglers. Along this road you will find many roadblocks, set up by…

There are a few places where overlanders who travel from Europe to Asia meet. The rest of the time they swarm out over the countries and then meet later on in what we call funnels. Dogubuyazit, near the only bordercrossing…