Freezing and Loving it!

Nemrud is a 2134 meters high mountain. It is not that high but at 5am, with insanely strong winds, surrounded by snow, the temperature was probably about -20C. Also I learned that I have altitude problem (attitude also probably!). I could not catch my breath, I had a bad headache and wanted to vomit. The good news it that I will know it for future destinations and higher summits and I bought pills for these kind of pains before I left Montreal ... so it's all good!

Land of Many Great Empires (GEEK!!) (Day 102 to Day 115)

April 26th 2010
In the last two weeks, I went from an absolute feeling of homesickness to an extreme need for adventure. At the end I almost changed my plans to reach China via Armenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan and all these centrel Asian -istan countries, but I calmed down and it would have taken too much time anyway. It will be for a future trip... My homesickness came from bad water that I drank at the end in ... read more

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Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more

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