The Wandering Nomads

Two bikes, one life, and the whole world to see

Favorite Cycling Routes: Eastern Turkey

Posted on December 24, 2015 by The Wandering Nomads

Turkey is a hospitable country with easy camping and great food, and though we found some of the country monotonous and boring, we absolutely loved the whole eastern section (after dropping in from Georgia). Snowy mountains, small quaint villages, and tea breaks whenever you please; what’s there not to love about cycling through eastern Turkey.

We really love the shepherds as they too understand our nomadic ways, eastern Turkey 2014.

Cycling into the storm, Turkey 2014.

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Welcome to Turkey

Posted on October 27, 2014 by The Wandering Nomads

“Destined to be an old women with no regrets.”

When we got to the “baggage check” station between the boarder of Georgia and Turkey we were prepared to laboriously take off every bag, put them on the X-Ray, and then repack our bags on the bike on the other side because that is what everyone else was doing. When the man in change of the station saw us though, he waved us through while ignoring our passports (which he was suppose to check as well), asked us half-heartedly if we were carrying alcohol or cigarets (no), and then, without missing a beat, asked us if we wanted some tea. So as everyone else was waiting for their passports and bags to be checked, we stood off to the side with our first cup of Turkish tea. Welcome to Turkey as a cyclist.