Welcome to Uzbekistan. The first flag is the Uzbek one. As usual I don’t take pictures at the border, for security reasons. Just some hundred meters after the border clearance we see the nice sign with big distances of cities…
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Turkmenistan – The five day transit rush We are one of the lucky persons who got the visa for Turkmenistan. We meet and hear about a lot other people who were rejected. There is no rule or schema why you…
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Spontaneously we decide to stay one day more. In the the evening we visit the Emam Zadeh Mohammad tomb in Bastam. A truckdriver and his breakfast. On our way to Sabzevar we find parts of the old road, which is…
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The first day cycling out of Tehran is really one of the worst cycling days on our journey so far. It is so much traffic and so loud, we can’t talk with each other. But after Damavand we are compensated…
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We are in Tehran now and I have to say it’s not a nice city. To me it’s too crowded, the traffic is so heavy. You have to be extremely brave and not scared to cross a street. We stay…
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In Hashjin we are invited to an Iranian wedding. It is interesting, for example men and women eat separately and one after each other. A lot of shops look like this shop. Because of all the reserve cardboard boxes it…
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The day started normal but one the way back to the main road I shifted in the first gear and the chain went too close to the spokes. I stopped the bike immediately, but the chain got stuck between the…
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Iran, the country of extrem hospitality. Welcome to Iran. It’s not allowed to take pictures at the border, so I took this picture a little later. In the background you can see the Iranian flag (green white red) and another…
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My new sign. 🙂 Goris. In Goris we met a really friendly guy (Michelle) and his family from Washington, who live in Armenia. Some more hills and nice landscape. While we were cooking we heard some noises from the bush,…
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After Ararat we had to climb a long pass in extreme heat up to 1800 meters above sealevel. Luckily there was a spring on top of the pass. At this day in the afternoon we received an e-mail that our…
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