Kars

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Kars

After some motorway driving, we took a really nice road along a river to Kars, our last stop in Turkey. We got to avoid more cows, goats, sheep, and tractors along the way. Finding the hotel was an adventure, becsuse the main street is closed for construction, and the one way street system has recently been changed. The GPS doesn't know the changes, but after driving through small streets and the market street I got to the hotel. I think it was largely luck, because I was trying to get back out of town to start over.

Near Kars are the ruins of the ancient Armenain capital of Ani. It is amazingly large, with a few buildings remaining along with some of the wall. It is just inside the Turkish border, and there are Armenian and Turkish guard towers on each side of the border fence. Along the way we got hailed on, but it was hot and dry at Ani.

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