Ben Around the World Diary – Day 48 – 21th September 2018
ODO 5636 Location Dogubayazit Weather 8-25 Strong head wind The sight of the dark stone of Mount Ararat - the highest peak in Turkey - stirred in me a deep…
ODO 5636 Location Dogubayazit Weather 8-25 Strong head wind The sight of the dark stone of Mount Ararat - the highest peak in Turkey - stirred in me a deep…
ODO 5488km Location Karabakac - just over the pass Weather 7-25 Up at 5am before sunset. On the road with the overnight lorry drivers and nobody else. Seeing the sunrise.…
ODO 5338 Location Ezisiye Weather 15-28 In turkey the earth takes on colours I've never seen. The earth rises thousands of metres between purple and black to the neon blue…
ODO 5228km Location Past Erzincan off the highway Weather 5-30 a contrast from mountain to valley What is it with men shouting out of vans trying to scare me? The…
ODO 5078km Location Up a mountain near Kasaplar Weather 11-26 gusty headwind As I broke through the 5000km mark the mountains began. Just as they did with approaching Istanbul. Small…
ODO 4942km Location Sivas Weather 5-26 I slept beautifully thanks to a new set of earplugs I bought to drown out the snores of the hostel room in Göreme. Waking…
ODO 4819km Location Saniglan Weather 15-26 Tailwind At the Cappadocia hostel I met a guy called Len who's currently living in Mumbai and works for a company that owns some…
ODO 4675km Location Göreme Weather 11-29 Windy! I was looking forward to flying in a balloon. As a kid I would be riding a scooter down the lane or playing…
ODO 4569km Location 10km short of Askaray Weather 8-25 Clear and bright. It happened. Rolling out of my muddy campsite in a field exhausted from a bad damp night I…
ODO 4450km Location A remote Turkish Plateau Weather 11-22 Avoiding showers As the day before I began the day with a climb and decent onto another plateau basin. This time,…