Entering Kurdistan

Our hostel offered a buffet for breakfast. Pretty uncommon in Corona times, but we didn't complain as we could eat enough to get going. But we saw straight away that Herbert's tyre was flat again. So we had to stop at the next gas station and fix it again. Luckily, this time it seemed to be ok.
Today's route profile was similar as yesterday's. But today, we had no headwinds! What a huge difference as we could actually enjoy our surroundings a lot more. For a couple of kilometres, one of the truck drivers even gave us a "ride". He passed us and drove so slowly that we could hold tied to some handlebars at the back of his truck. We took the invite but let go once the road was a little flatter again.
In this part here, we are at an altitude between 1800 and 2300m all the time. It's mountaineous, but with almost no vegetation. People live of farming, mainly cows, sheep and goats. So we see many shepherds with their herds around here.
We stopped in a village to get some lunch. There's only very few women on the road. And the ones you see, are completely covered. I feel most men stared at me, but they are all friendly and ask us where we are from.
After almost 100km, we stopped at a spring to fill up water. A man invited us for a tea, he even spoke some German and told us that we are in Kurdistan right now. The inhabitants of most of the cities and villages here are half Turkish, half Kurdish.
As it was time to find a campspot anyways, we decided to stay here and camp at the river behind the man's restaurant. It's good to have running water at the camp as it makes washing much easier. We love camping here as you can see so many stars and the milkyway as soon as you are away from the cities.Weiterlesen