Setting off for Dogubayazit this morning, just going to kill some time and head to Iran tomorrow.
Wow, what a bad road! There are potholes absolutely everywhere, we just stopped at an internet café in Igdir, it seems to be run by 3 kids, the oldest looks about 9! Just checking emails, and that Iran hasn’t been invaded recently.
Just got to an old mosque or palace in the hills behind Dogubayazit – Ishak Pasha – to have a look around, the main building seems to be under reconstruction but there are a few ruins further up the hill in the crags - which we decided to climb up to - and a big picnic area just below, where we saw a family carrying around a dead hen by the neck as we went up and then chopping it up for dinner as we came down.
We’ve decided that since it’s only 2pm and we don’t really have anything to do, we’re just going to go for the Iranian border. Exciting stuff!
Just arrived at the border, met another team – The Mongolites – on the way through Dogubayazit. Just putting on long trousers and shirts for the border, Iran’s pretty strict on appropriate clothing we hear.
FINALLY got through to Iran, a lot of sitting around waiting for things to get stamped and trying not to get ripped off by unofficial. Met up with the team in the Thunderbird 4 – Team Young Offenders – who seem like great guys. We’ve just bought some car insurance and are off to find somewhere to camp with TYO. The other teams we met at the border (some Irish, some South Africans and the Mongolites) are all off to find a hostel, we might meet up with them on the road though.
Found a nice little flat spot next to a side road outside Maku. Going to have some bread & soup, a good old chin-wag and then some sleep. First night in IRAN!
Haha, just after we’d set up camp some guy in a pickup came over and said Hi, shook all our hands and then disappeared off again, he’s just been back (10mins later) and given us some cakes and buggered off again! I like Iran already.
Photos from the day
Wow, what a bad road! There are potholes absolutely everywhere, we just stopped at an internet café in Igdir, it seems to be run by 3 kids, the oldest looks about 9! Just checking emails, and that Iran hasn’t been invaded recently.
Just got to an old mosque or palace in the hills behind Dogubayazit – Ishak Pasha – to have a look around, the main building seems to be under reconstruction but there are a few ruins further up the hill in the crags - which we decided to climb up to - and a big picnic area just below, where we saw a family carrying around a dead hen by the neck as we went up and then chopping it up for dinner as we came down.
We’ve decided that since it’s only 2pm and we don’t really have anything to do, we’re just going to go for the Iranian border. Exciting stuff!
Just arrived at the border, met another team – The Mongolites – on the way through Dogubayazit. Just putting on long trousers and shirts for the border, Iran’s pretty strict on appropriate clothing we hear.
FINALLY got through to Iran, a lot of sitting around waiting for things to get stamped and trying not to get ripped off by unofficial. Met up with the team in the Thunderbird 4 – Team Young Offenders – who seem like great guys. We’ve just bought some car insurance and are off to find somewhere to camp with TYO. The other teams we met at the border (some Irish, some South Africans and the Mongolites) are all off to find a hostel, we might meet up with them on the road though.
Found a nice little flat spot next to a side road outside Maku. Going to have some bread & soup, a good old chin-wag and then some sleep. First night in IRAN!
Haha, just after we’d set up camp some guy in a pickup came over and said Hi, shook all our hands and then disappeared off again, he’s just been back (10mins later) and given us some cakes and buggered off again! I like Iran already.
Photos from the day
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