Destinations
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Biking through the Balkan: part 2
Montenegro: the tiny country that has it all. We love Montenegro and have been here before, 4 years ago we hiked through Durmitor National Park for 5 days. This tiny country really has…
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Biking through the Balkan: part 1.
North Macedonia: 4 days from northeast to southwest Alright, alright, Bulgaria is also part of the Balkan, but we covered our tour through the Rhodope Mountains already here. So we start this off…
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Cycling through the Bulgarian Rhodope mountains
To be honest, we crossed the border into Bulgaria completely blank. We were more preoccupied with the actual crossing than the destination itself. Apparently the border at Kapıkule is the second busiest land…
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Some notes on cycling and camping in Turkey
After cycling through Turkey for almost 10 weeks, we thought it would be good to share the little tidbits of wisdom we have gathered here. We have our favorite routes, blogs we used…
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Bye bye Turkey, hello Bulgaria
Tackling Istanbul: how not to do it The city of Istanbul is notorious among cyclists, as it’s busy, chaotic, loud and downright dangerous to ride a bike. So we had the brilliant idea…
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Cycling along the Black Sea Coast.
After visiting Cappadocia and cycling due North, we reached the Black Sea coast at Samsun. We went down from the plateau for more than 700 meters and that gave us a taste of…
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Back to the coast! And a note on the waste management of Turkey
We had two whole days of rest in Göreme! Two (2) days without cycling! We actually walked around! Mainly to get food, but still. The landscape of Cappadocia is beautiful, and could be…
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Up and down towards Cappadocia, and Turkish kindness
After visiting Hatay and Gaziantep, we decided it was finally time to turn our wheels to Cappadocia, the most instagrammable place in Turkey. Who hasn’t seen pictures of hot air balloons hovering over…
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An ode to Hatay and made our way up to the Anatolian plateau
To answer the obvious question first: yes, we were close to Syria (the closest we got was about 10 km from the border) and no, that wasn’t dangerous. At first we were also…
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Onwards! One month in Turkey!
One month and 2251 km already! The last week was a week of extremes. We left the orange trees behind and cycled through banana and strawberry farms and stayed on the D400. White…
