Mountain club adventure

What a wonderful day on the bikes! We headed off the campground and went around Lake Eğirdir for about 35km. The lake is a beauty the road goes directly along the water for most of the time. We also met Erol who is travelling around Turkey with his wife, daughter and granddaughter in a VW van. They invited us to their lake view breakfast although we could communicate in sign language only.
The next part of the day was relatively flat until we had to climb up the highest pass in Turkey so far. What was not so much of a problem for us was too hard for one of the cars that broke down just before the top. On the way up, there was a nice picnic area with a view and a freshwater spring, so that's where we stopped for lunch. And at the top, we had a tea in a little tentlike building. The owners gave us some grapes with it when they heard about our tour.
The views on the other side of the pass were spectacular! We descended down a canyon and could see the desert in front of us.
In Akşehir, we could stay at the mountaineering club. Berkay, the warmshowers host, wasn't in town but talked to his friends who were happy to let us sleep in the building. Berkay had also organized dinner for us: his mum delivered home made food to the club 😉Read more