METRICS: none

DETAILS:

• Sightseeing, village live and travellers from around the world
• Göreme is an interesting place: many cave houses and wild rock formations
• The whole area is full of abandoned houses, caves digged into the rocks and churches with amazing frescos

After a lazy period new pictures from Turkey and the latest tour data has been published now. Enjoy it.

Thorsten

METRICS:

• Start: Karkın
• Stop: Göreme
• Distance: 74,2 km (total: 4611 km)
• Time of ride: 4:19 h
• Average speed: n/a
• Altitude difference: +635/-647 m (total: +38.122 m)

DETAILS:

• Hacıbektaş, Gülsheir, Avanos
• Again blue sky
• Funny stop to refill water bottles. Tea and chat with locals
• Sleeping in a bed again: Star Cave Hostel

METRICS:

• Start: Kaman
• Stop: Karkın
• Distance: 101,3 km (total: 4537 km)
• Time of ride: 5:42 h
• Average speed: n/a
• Altitude difference: +904/-810 m (total: +37.487 m)

DETAILS:

• Sofular, Kirşehir, Mucur
• Again blue sky
• Early start (one of the few…)
• Landscape gets wider
• Invitation for lunch and tea while stoping at bakery to buy bread
• Free camping beside the road

METRICS:

• Start: Bala
• Stop: Kaman
• Distance: 78,1 km (total: 4436 km)
• Time of ride: 4:51 h
• Average speed: n/a
• Altitude difference: +1191/-1092 m (total: +36.583 m)

DETAILS:

• Karakeçili, Köprüköy, Karakaya
• Beatyful day again
• Stop in school for picture
• Free camping behind abandoned house

METRICS:

• Start: Ankara
• Stop: Bala
• Distance: 59,9 km (total: 4358 km)
• Time of ride: 3:19 h
• Average speed: n/a
• Altitude difference: +764/-611 m (total: +33.390 m)

DETAILS:

• Gölbaşı, Beynam
• Endless ride to leave the city
• Free camping in field behind hills
• Cold night: water bottles frozen in the morning

METRICS: none

DETAILS:

• Moved into hotel next door: nice and cosy and warm…
• Spend a nice evening with Kadir (first time met in Teraklı)
• At long last: I got the visa for Iran!!
• Met Pawel and Magda from Poland: they are cyling too, both in the winter. Feels good not to be the only one at this time of the year riding a bike in the countryside. We will meet again in Iran

METRICS:

• Start: Uğurçaırı
• Stop: Ankara
• Distance: 73,3 km (total: 4298 km)
• Time of ride: 4:21 h
• Average speed: n/a
• Altitude difference: +869/-678 m (total: +34.626 m)

DETAILS:

• Ayaş, Sincan
• 2 more pases to climb before ending up in 25 km of 4 to 8 lane city traffic travelling downtown Ankara
• Nice guy from car parking is taking care of my bike while searching a hotel
• What a deal: heater system collapsed. No radiator and hot water: it was prommised to be repaired in the evening 100 times but nothing happened…

METRICS:

• Start: Çayırhan
• Stop: Uğursçaırı
• Distance: 71,6 km (total: 4225 km)
• Time of ride: 4:06 h
• Average speed: n/a
• Altitude difference: +693/-602 m (total: +33.757 m)

DETAILS:

• Beypazarı
• Again blue sky and sunshine: it’s like vacation
• Fresh water from construction workers building a new road bridge: tea included
• Again nice free camping behind a hill on the open plane

METRICS:

• Start: Dedeler
• Stop: Çayırhan
• Distance: 74,3 km (total: 4153 km)
• Time of ride: 4:25 h
• Average speed: n/a
• Altitude difference: +625/-892 m (total: +33.064 m)

DETAILS:

• Uluhan, Nallıhan
• After the anticline following Nallıhan the landscape changed dramatically. From rocky forests into wide open planes with nice rock formations scattered at the horizon
• Nice free camping behind a hill on the open plane