When someone would ask you to drive from London to Mongolia in a shitty car of not more than 1.2l, would you do it? It’s a crazy challenge you would think. And it certainly is. We drove more than 20.000km through magnificent countries like Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Mongolia, … It was definitely one of the best experiences of our life. See what we saw and feel how we felt by reading all our stories about the greatest motoring adventure in the world, The Mongol Rally.
So we crossed the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul and are now officially in Asia. After our short visit to Istanbul, we split up with the other Belgian team ‘Silly Coincidence’ because they needed to take another route to go into Iran. Our first planned stop was Amasra, a small port town at the Black Sea. After 7 hours of driving, we finally arrived there at sunset. But unfortunately, it was too crowded and too difficult to find a good camping spot. It was already dark when we drove further to find a place to sleep. This became an extra 3 hours drive until Cide, where we found a small hotel at 11pm. We just went for it because at this time, and with all the mountain roads, it became too difficult to camp. We had some late night köfte in town and went back to the hotel for a good night rest. However, we didn’t know that the local minaret would wake us up at 4am.
