After more than one week the three of us finally managed to leave Istanbul. After days of relaxing most of the time and visiting we also managed to apply for the iranian visa on the last morning. Anne stayed in Istanbul as she had a lot of stuff to take care of. It was sad to leave the nice flat and our very friendly hosts Fuad, Murrat and Gurkan behind as they made our stay so enjoyable. Because we still remembered entering Istanbul we agreed on leaving the city by bus and succeeded to avoid most of the traffic by doing so. Shortly behind Izmit we set up camp for our first night back in more or less nature. The next day we entered the mountains and during lunch time, buying bread turned first into getting invited for tea in the bakery than eating there and in the end helping the people unloading crates of Aiwa and than staying for the night. The decission to take the road through the mountains turned out to take more energy than what googlemaps told us, but it was totally worth it. The way lead mostly on small roads through a very rural area with nice towns in bizarre landscape. It ranged from forest over grassland to completely desserted areas on all variaties of bedrock. People were always very friendly helping us with finding the way, buying food on the marked and also the military police who woke us up in the morning just wanted to check if everything is ok and warned us of bears, wolfs and wild pigs as big as cars. The closer we came to Ankara more and more fields ranged along the street with a lot of fruits and vegetables left on them, because it was a very good year for aggriculture as one farmer ensured us. After a long climb up the last pass, empowered by a lot of hazelnut cream and the rest of our 1kg package of Halva we could enjoy riding all the way down to Ankara.
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