The ulimate cycle touring blog for anyone planning on cycling the silk road.
A cycling blog about our bicycle tour along the silk road.
Our two months cycling in Turkey was an amazing experience, filled with the kindess and generosity of all the beautiful Turkish people we met. Check out our stats for all the number nerds out there.
Read MoreCycling to Ezurum we crossed the regional border between the Black Sea region and Eastern Anatolia, and the differences were immediately noticeable. Villages were poorer, the landscape dryer and the mountains snow capped.
Read MoreAny hope of cycling the whole way to China without any petrol infused assistance was completely shattered with a 2100m climb and a toilet bowl breaking bout of gastro.
Read MoreFrom the moment we cycled away from the coast, and decided to go inland for some mountain fun, our Turkish guardian angel paid us his full attention.
Read MoreThe roads in to Istanbul are well known in the cycling touring world as one of the most heinous journeys possible by bike. With this in mind, and no map in hand, we set off with trepidation.
Read MoreCycling into Turkey was a brutal slap in the face. Nothing says welcome to a new country like barbed wire fences and 18yr old soldiers holding big, shiny automatic machine guns.
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