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Road To Cappadocia

This one was on my list for a while, and now that destinations are rather restricted I decided to take advantage of the fact that travel to Turkey is relatively easy to arrange. Obviously flying directly to Cappadocia would be too boring. Getting there on a bike from Antalya sounds like a much more interesting option especially because the road goes though relatively unknown Turkish "lake district". Map from Wanderlog, a trip planner app on iOS and Android Antalya to Konya Antalya surprises me with cycling paths. It's not gonna take long before they're over but it's a nice experience anyway How many places are there where you're randomly passing something like that? There was even a concert planned that evening. Aspendos amphitheater, first longer stop of the day. I immediately learned that my tires don't like this terrain. Little bit too many thorns and two flat tires at the same time 😠 That's gonna be the spot for my first night. I was ...

Sheep & Volcanoes

That Iceland is full of volcanoes and waterfalls I already knew. Omnipresence of sheep came as kind of a surprise. Geography of Iceland makes most of the routes look very similar. Good quality "ring road" along the coast and difficult interior which can be accessed only with a 4WD. Trip map courtesy of Wanderlog , a vacation planner on iOS and Android Sheep in the north Iceland without private transport would be somewhere between very difficult and impossible, so this trip was the first camper van experience ever One goes to Iceland because of nature. Waterfalls, gorges, canyons, cliffs - they are all over the island and they are rather picturesque I've lost count of all the waterfalls we've seen on our way and each of them more spectacular than 99% of all waterfalls in the continental Europe Iceland is a good hiking destination too, even without venturing into the interior (and I say that being in Swiss Alps every other weekend!) Speaking of which, trying not t...