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\n3 Nights in Istanbul
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<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nHostel Galata West – good location, clean, breakfast on roof terrace, aircondition in dormitory<\/p>\n
do:
\n* eat fishbread (Balik Ekmek) next to galata bridge (don’t forget to add enough salt and lemon!)
\n* Bosporus tour by boat
\n* blue mosque<\/p>\n
not too good:
\n* Prince’s Islands (water is not very clean)<\/p>\n
03-08-2011
\nbus from Istanbul Otogar (bus station) to Karab\u00fck
\n11:00 -> 17:00, 35 TL\/pers
\nCompany: Kastamonu G\u00fcven (very comfortable and with WLAN!)
\nYou will definitly be caught by a “otogar guide” if you want or not. You are faster finding the right company with his help but he also expects money from you. (10 TL – we gave him 5 TL)<\/p>\n
You arrive in the new part of Safranbolu which is not very beautiful but we got a nice Pansyon for 60 TL\/2pers. In the old town its more expensive. 04-08-2011 beautiful town, citadel, beach. not many foreign tourists in this region. heard about 50TL pension for 2 people but we decided to do camping in the near \u00c7akraz. The beach there is also way better then in Amasra.<\/p>\n camping in front of the beach 20 TL\/2 pers, not very clean toilet\/shower but ok for one night. very nice beach!<\/p>\n 05-08-2011 in Cide there was no bus to Inebolu on the same day so we had to find a place to sleep, because of Ramazan it’s not easy to find good food at daytime in this region, there were not many tourists at all – this region is more famous for turkish people and in Ramazan most of them stay at home 06-08-2011 in Inebolu no bus further the black sea cost – wait till next day, the owner of a pension went by and a woman passing by helped us to bargain \ud83d\ude42 07-08-2011 we arrived at the otogar, a minibus from buscompany Metro took us to the citycenter of Trabzon bus Trabzon -> Pazar<\/strong>, 17:00, 10TL\/pers<\/p>\n our busdriver asked some locals for a bus from Pazar to Ayder but there was no more bus on the same day so we went out at the intersection where the street to Ayder starts,<\/p>\n we had luck to meet a turkish couple that took us all the way to Ayder \u2013 thanks!!<\/p>\n room in Ayder: Pansyon Doga Harikasi (!), 50TL\/2 pers, nice wooden rooms, very good breakfast, one guy from the Pansyon phoned the driver of the minibus to Tavron where we wanted to go on the next day<\/p>\n 09-08-2011<\/strong> you can get much information there from the guides or book a guide \u2013 we decided to go on our own<\/p>\n the weather wasn’t very good \u2013 everything was covered in fog<\/p>\n we wanted to go to the lakes but somehow lost the way \u2013 after 3,5 hours we finally reached the lakes (normally it should take 2 hours), at the lakes the weather was way better and we decided to spend the night there<\/p>\n the night was very cold because our one layer 20 \u20ac tent and our slim sleepingbags are not made for camping in 2200 m altitude \u2013 so make sure to bring a good tent and a good sleepingbag for the mountains!!<\/p>\n you can also stay in the tent next to the pension \u2013 it is 5TL\/pers<\/p>\n 11-08-2011<\/strong> the clouds were not looking very nice in the late afternoon so we asked for a plastic sheet to protect our cheap tent againts rain \u2013 in the last minute before heavy rain startet i finished fixing the additional layer on our tent,<\/p>\n very heavy rain, lightening and thunderstorm above our tents in the night \u2013 quite frightening!<\/p>\n after 2 hours we arrived at the lake and decided to move on, there were still clouds on the sky but we decided to try to get to the summit \u2013 a little bit worried about the weather and the daytime…<\/p>\n 4 hours after the lake we arrived at the summit, it was quite hard to follow the path to summit \u2013 it is a big field of stones and there are not so much cans where you can orientate yourself, but you see the summit all the time so there may be many ways to reach the destination!<\/p>\n on the way back from the summit we realized that we were not really following the marked trek to the summit, it took us 2 hours back to the lake, after a break swimming in the freezing water we saw some clouds coming and decided to go back to the camp as fast as possible<\/p>\n we arrived in the camp at 18:30 and had nice chamomile tea which we found in the mountains 13-08-2011<\/strong> Next bus in the morning at 6:00 so we had to stay in the Pansyon 60TL\/2 pers, without breakfast, warm shover great after two nights in to small wet tent<\/p>\n 14-08-2011<\/strong> 9:00 bus Yusufeli \u2192 Erzrum, 20TL\/pers<\/p>\n from Erzrum we wanted to take a train to Kayseri but there is just one train in the morning at 5:30 and it takes you 14 hours<\/p>\n bus Erzrum \u2192 Kayseri, 14:00, 10h, 45TL\/pers.<\/p>\n Bus Kayseri \u2192 Nevsehir (!!!), 0:30, 1h, 10TL\/pers.<\/p>\n Nevshire (!!) Hotel Seven, 60TL\/2 pers, best hotel we stayed on our whole journey, very good breakfast<\/p>\n 15-08-2011<\/strong> underground cities of Kaymali, fee: 15TL\/pers, very cool to walk in the caves, not many people when we were there \u2013 must be horrible if a lot of tourists are inside at the same time<\/p>\n minibus Nevsehir \u2192 G\u00f6reme, 2TL\/pers<\/p>\n Camping Nirvana, 20TL\/1 tent\/2 pers, almost directly in center, swimmingpool, shower and toilet ok, sandy place but for one night ok<\/p>\n Kaya camping should be very good but 30TL\/2pers and 2,5 km from the center of G\u00f6reme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Travelling through Turkey from July, 31th – August, 22nd 2011. Istanbul – Safranbolu – Amasra – \u00c7akraz – Cide – Inebolu – Trabzon – Ayder – Ka\u00e7kar Mountains – Erzurum – Kayseri – G\u00f6rme (Cappadocia) – \u00d6l\u00fcdeniz – Marmaris – … Continue reading <\/a>Karab\u00fck -> Safranbolu<\/strong> with Minibus – just wave hands on the road in front of the Otogar, 2 TL\/pers, 10 mins<\/p>\n
\nThere is a minibus every 30 minutes from the new town to the old town. 3 km – you could also walk.<\/p>\n
\nThere are 3 daily busses from Safranbolu to Amasra<\/strong>: 8:30, 10:30, 19:30 (approximately)
\n2h, 14 TL\/pers<\/p>\n<\/a>Amasra -> \u00c7akraz Minibus near Postoffice, 15km, 4 TL\/pers, 25 min.
\nroad through the hills next to the black sea is quite heavy so busses are slow!<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>it is hard to get a Minibus from \u00c7akraz to Cide because there are very few and you have to find out when they pass the town.
\nwe trusted some guys at the caf\u00e9 next to the road but it was not very clear when or if a bus is coming – in the end we missed one because we were busy learning Okey and had to wait 3 hours with very nice turkish retirees.
\n\u00c7akraz – Cide<\/strong>, 15:00, 1.5h, about 4 TL\/pers<\/p>\n
\nwe took a hotel for 50 TL\/2 pers in the center but it is maybe better to find a place near the beach (appr. 15 mins walk)<\/p>\n
\nin the night the town wakes up!<\/p>\n
\nbus from Cide -> Inebolu<\/strong>, 13:45, about 2h, 15TL\/pers<\/p>\n
\nwe paid 25TL\/2 pers – the cheapest room on our whole journey – Pansyon Deniz – seaview
\non this day we couldn’t get any fish in the whole town but found a very good restaurant next to the beach – can’t remeber the name sorry but it was 100m after the bridge in the west<\/p>\n
\nwe decided to end our from town-to-town on the black sea cost adventure and take a bus to a bigger city where you can easily go to Trabzon
\nInebolu -> Kastamonu, 9:00, 2h, 10TL\/pers
\nKastamonu -> Trabzon<\/strong>, 12:00, 11h, 55TL\/pers<\/p>\n
\nvery modern city, went to “Otel An\u0131l” because it was late in the night and we didn’t want to spend much time to find a place to sleep, 70TL\/2 pers, very nice hotel, good breakfast and english speaking staff<\/p>\n<\/a>08-08-2011
\nthe tourist information in Trabzon is very helpful, good speaking english staff
\nat 10:00 we took a tour bus to S\u00fcmela monastery, 25TL\/pers, 1h from Trabzon, many companies offer this tour for the same price – it is possible to go there by public transport but rather complicated and maybe not much cheaper
\nyou should take warm cloth – in Trabzon it was hot but the weather was not good when we arrived and it was quiet freezing, very nice frescos in the monastery<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>minibus to\u00a0Yukari Kavron<\/strong> @ 9:00, but arrived at 10:00, 1h, 10TL\/pers, very heavy road!!<\/p>\n<\/a>10-08-2011<\/strong>
\nafter a good-morning-bath in the lake, which wasn’t as cold as we expected, we took the way to Olgunlar, you have to cross the mountains about 3000m altitude and it took us 6 hours to Olgunlar, very nice walk but no shadow the whole trek \u2013 so bring suncream, a hat and be prepared to get burned<\/p>\n<\/a>in Olgunlar, a very nice old village we stayed the night in Panyon Olgunlar, 40TL\/2 pers (no breakfast), they also run a shop where you can buy food for your journey and a cafe where they serve fresh fish \u2013 very delicious!!<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>we left some of our things in the pension and went to the basecamp for climbing the Ka\u00e7kar, 3 hours, easy way, in the camp there are severall tents for tour groups \u2013 you can also rent a tent if you book in advance,<\/p>\n<\/a>12-08-2011<\/strong>
\nwe wanted to start early climbing the summit but it was raining at 4:00, at 5:00 and at 6:00…. we finally started at 9 o’clock \u2013 normally way to late for climbing up to the summit, but we wanted to reach at least the lake (\u00d6laspas jfndijdsdi)<\/p>\n
\nin the night there was a heavy thunderstorm again even with icecubes!
\nI wounder how the tent survived this, but we stayed almost dry.<\/p>\n
\nAfter the rain stopped at about 10:00 we packed our things and went back to Olgunlar. We tried to hitchhike to Yusufeli which is 23 kilometers from Olgunlar but just managed to go to Yalalar \u2013 5km from Olgunlar.<\/p>\n
\n6:00 minibus Yalalar \u2192 Yusufeli, 2h, 20TL\/pers<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>minibus Nevsehir \u2192 Kaymakl, 3TL\/pers, 20km<\/p>\n