Day 299-301: Rock sites of Kapadokya

 Göreme town

Went for a short hike up 'sunset point' way while waiting to meet my friends

Day 291-298: Ankara - on Visas run

The roads in Ankara are at some crazy gradiants.. really crazy. Even walking is exhausting. 

Day 288-290: Before Ankara

 Roads of town ain't that good huh

Day 285-287: To Pamukova

 Istanbul's cycle path by the coast. Nice and flat but have to watch out for broken glass chips

Day 283-284: Rest days in Istanbul

Rise and shine to a sunny day and good view

Cityscape

 

Coffee and Bansky, what a nice way to start the day... 

we came lived in the same city but I never met him though

Day 277-282: To Istanbul

Stay clear... heavy loaded bike reversing...

Day 274-276: Crossed 10,000km

No go! My only other option was the motorway so I had to back track through Svilengrad to get on the motorway

Up to the motorway. The road was spacious and not busy at all when I was up there

Day 264-274: Bulgaria Route

Day 269-273: Rest of Bulgaria

 

Ready to go after religiously checking the weather forecast trying to time my climbs on better weather...  Thanks to Zhivko suggestion that I get to enjoy beautiful landscapes