The glory of the Western Taurus

Todays outstanding highlight comes in the afternoon. We have already enjoyed a morning of gorges and small mountain roads, the ruins of Adada and a remote mountain plain. And after the wet of yesterday, the warm drying sunshine is an especial pleasure. But it is as we turn a corner and ascend our final and biggest pass, that a high range of the Western Taurus mountains appear and capture our attention.

For the next hour or more we have wonderful vistas, low warm sunlight, golden autumnal colours and dark threatening clouds. This has to be one of the most scenic roads we have ridden in the whole trip. And its hard to imagine the colours and lighting being any better.

The experience is all the more striking as we will cross this range tomorrow on a high dirt road pass that we can see in the far distance.Read more