Rushing Borders and İllegal İmmigrants April 17th 2006 Finally after months of planning we have our Iranian Visas! We kept meeting people at the Iranian Embassy in Cairo who had just returned from Iran and were enthusing massively about their wonderful experiences there.
So we booked our bus tickets to Nuwieba. We had decided to travel back to the Turkish border quickly so as to try to get to Iran before it gets unbearably hot. It is ironic we ... read more
Middle East » Turkey 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
We are Erika and Robin from Scotland and in April 2005 we quit our jobs and set off to cycle from Scotland to İstanbul.
We reached İstanbul in October 2005 having discovered that cycling truly is the best way to travel and so decided to keep going beyond the Bosphorous......
We had never cycled any long distance before but had been wanting to travel for a long time and had finally saved enough and realised ıf we didn't set off now we never would. We decided cycling would be the best form of transport as we wanted to learn more about the countries and people we passed through at a s... full info