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Türkei Teil 3: Kappadokien bis zur Grenze
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on the day i left the Sun was Shining

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on my Way to Ürgüp

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after Ürgüp the Road leads steep up the Hill

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end ends in Snow up there

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Also the Birdshouses where out of Bricks

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on my Way to Kayseri

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somewhere on the Road... here you see the very Raw Asphalt they mostly use

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The Main Mosque in Kayseri

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3917m high Erciyes Dagi short after Kayseri

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the Karavanserey of Karatey, historical Restplace for Caravans of Medieval TImes

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Kids along the Road

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on the Highplateau Direction Pinarbasi

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The Road leads, always the Mountains in Sight, over the Plateau

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short before Pinarbasi

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from time to time someone tried to ride my Bike

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On my Way up to Ziyarettepesi Gecedi

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The Gorge of Sucati River

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View back into the Valley of the Sucati...

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...while in the front the Next Mountains are growing from the Horizon

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Darende, a little Town along the Road

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Afterwards they got a lot of Apricot-Stalls

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A Break in one of the Apricot-Stalls

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a lot of Wells along the Road, this one also got Soap

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as i reached the Top i was back in the Snow

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The Karakaya Baraji...

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...i rode along for a time

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from time to time there was a flat tire that needed to repair

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The Holidaycamps felt asleep for winter

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the best thing you can do with such a weather

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short Cay Break at a Police-Station

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well builded the road winds through the narrow Maden Cayi-River Valley

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Maden a Town squeezed into the Valley...

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remembers me of Nepal :-)

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A View into the hilly Kurdistan

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Breakfast-Break along the Road

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In the Citywall of Diyarbakir

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underneath the Citywalls the poor peoples Quarter grows

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a Street-Restaurant... take a look at the Background...

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Impressing Wall and they try to make a nice Sourrounding

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Kids in the Streets of Diyarbakir

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The Mainmosque of the City, a former Church

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the Oldtown is a collection of narrow Pathways...

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...where some pearls start crumbeling years ago

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Marks of former Police-Attacks doesn´t bother the Boy

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View down into the Meadows of River Tigris

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And the Trucks start looking more and more Asian

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River Tigris

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Hasankeyf

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A display you are never looking for... but this time just technical Problems of the ATM

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the landscape is rocky and you can find little village allover

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along the Road wild Horses crossed my way

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these three were much more subdued

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from time to time mixed herds crossed my way

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a Cay-Break in Dagecit in remote Kurdistan

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The Constructionsite of Ilisu Dam Wall

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upon Tigris Gorge

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in the Remote Areas the people are used to walk

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the Road leading down into the Gorge

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idyllic Village topping little Hills

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View along the Valley down to the Dam Wall... that shows how high the water will rise

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The Road winds along the River

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sometimes there are some slopes over the Rocks

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My Guys from Siirt in the Morning...

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abandonded Villages next to the River

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after all i had to leave the Gorge

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The Houses are mostly painted, but just the ones laying over the aproximatly waterlevel

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i followed for a time the Botan Cayi River Gorge

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before i climbed up to Siirt in the Evening

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View over Siirt to the Mountains in the East

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Oldtown of Siirt

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Evening Okey-Gametime

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there it is gone... my Hair

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my "Kuaför" already working on the next one...

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this way my Selfie-Videos were made

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a very special Place on Top of Botan Cayi RIver Gorge

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two syrian Refugees working at a Petrol-Station in Siirt

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Some Villages are connected by by suspension bridges

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The Rivervalley up to Van Gölü is deeply cut into the Landscape

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old meets new... they also extend the Road and the hitoric Bridge looks a little bit lost...

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The Peaks were a little bit snowpowdered

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Oldtown of Bitlis with it´s Castle

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along the higher parts of Southcoast everythig was Snowcovered

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the Southcoast more East

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Short after Kuskunkiran-Pass

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and there it is, the first Iran-Sign... The donkey doesn´t matter about it

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View back to the Pass and it´s sourounding Mountains

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Two Fishtraders at the Roadside

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next to the Lake... Beautiful

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without Stand it´s better to lay down ;-)

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the Akdamar-Church

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wonderful situated on a island in the Lake

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excellent Barbeque one Evening in Van

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selfmade Kebab, very Tasty!