Some of the group walk up to see the misty sunrise on Nemrut Dagi once more and enjoyed the sunrise celebrations with the locals. The truck still causes astir with others who had to have photos with us as we ate our breakfast. Then off we move to our next bush camp near lake Van. We travel down the mountains and use a local ferry to cross a lake, this will not have to be done soon, as they are building a bridge across it because of tourism, which will be a shame ...

We move on from the bush camp heading towards Nemrut Dagi National park. After a quick shop locally we stopped off at the Roman bridge for a couple of hours to eat lunch and prepare the evening meal, boy was it hot here! We moved deeper into the mountains on a slow journey through very narrow, steep and twisty roads, discovering snow still on the mountains as we got higher. We arrived at Nemrut Dagi about 5.30 which gave us all time to eat before going up to th...

We leave Goreme to make our way to Nemrut Dagi via a bush camp. We stopped at a small town for shopping, where a tyre was found to have been damaged.Fortunately it was spotted by two tyre technicians, who offered to repair it there and then for a very cheap price, the rest of us hit the town.It was the first time we noticed a change in the people, women were mostly covered up and the girls from the truck were watched, in fact all of us were! However the locals w...

We arrived at the campsite in Goreme in a thunderstorm and tried to put up the tent(every else held fire) so got soaking wet. Decided to go into the nearest town to do a food shop The truck to broke down in the supermarket car park! We had to decamp everything from the truck and put it into the campsite owners minibus plus all of us!!! Adam and Helen stayed with the truck whilst the mechamics were sent for. Later that evening and one very large repair bill later ...

We left Olympos early for a long journey through mountains and plains to make our way inland to a bush camp in the ilhara valley, the took us to the snow line when crossing the mountains, until we stopped for our camp sharing it with Turkish gypsies next to a dam and a howling dog! It was also the first time we encountered the strange rock homes in this region. The next day we stopped off at the Ilhara valley for a hike and closer look at the cave churches and h...