Interesting trip across the foothills of the Zagros Mountain range and across dry plains, passed fascinating multi-coloured hills whose strata formed strange and interesting patterns. We travelled excellent roads with little traffic, lots of toll stops, large pit stops along the way where we stopped once for fuel and fast food. The first ‘western fast food’ in 4 weeks - hot dog and chips!
Fascinating and most welcome pit stop.
We passed many of these blue trucks. They are in fact called Blue Trucks. Often pretty clapped out but they carry huge loads
Toll gates along the highway
Our poor driver got lost getting into the metropolis of Tehran - twice! We had our fingers crossed that he wasn’t going to take us to the airport an hour away from the city the next morning when time would be of the essence. And that’s a whole other story - 3 am start to get to the airport 3 hours before our scheduled flight. We thought that it sounded a bit extreme, but not when we got there a bit after 4am. Wall to wall people, queues winding back and back on themselves. Took us at least an hour and half to get checked in and then it was on through the rest of the formalities. Man oh man!
A long wait but finally the sun came up and eventually we boarded. One blessed relief was that once in the departure lounge I could take off my head scarf!
When we got to Istanbul passport control we realised that our Visas were in our luggage on the other side of passport control - sacre bleu !! After some small panic - of course we could have paid US$80 each for new ones - we remembered that we had copies on the PC in our hand luggage - phew! Finally we burst out onto Turkish soil. What a relief! And here we are....
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