A few of us try to climb to babak castle, but the path is not clear so in different groups we try to climb up to the castle ruins.Myself and Jackie spend time scrambling through several woods and scramble up the rocks but are beaten by the last rock wall as we would have needed ropes to get up it, others somehow manage to make it, but end up getting soaked as they return in a thunder and hail storm and they are drenched! But no time to wait so we move off to our ...

After our rest up at Tabriz we travel up the mountains to the Kaleybar valley with an opportunity to climb up to the Babak castle, however we have to get some lunch first we decide to go to the grand bazaar and manage to negotiate our way round to getting some food, the locals talk in kilos we talk in one and twos so they give up on us and just let is have it for nothing, so lunch costs us about a fiver, not bad. All the girls have bought coloured head scarves a...

Goodbye Turkey and hello Iran. We have had a fantastic three weeks in Turkey, but it is time to move onto our next country. Mother nature came up trumps for our last drive to the border with Iran so that we had a clear view of Mount Ararat as we left, all the girls are dressed in black and covered up. We arrived at was believed to be a difficult border, what do you know it was over before it begun and we were met by a hoard of money changers on the Iranian side,...