Hi,

Will be in Turkey in May and looking for fellow travelers to join efforts in order to tackle the Baku - Turkmenbashi ferry around May 15th. ( meeting with Tiger3 on June 1st in Bishkek for the Pamirs part )
See u on the road for and

Hi,

I intend to stay away from THAT ferry - no good reputation at all ...

See ya - Lothar

Hey Guys Sheldon here, im and Aussie guy on a bmw gs 800, been on the road for 2 years through Africa Europe and a few other places along the way but am in Montenegro at the mment waiting on a little Polish hitchhiker I picked up in Prague, she joins me in Bucharest in the first week of March then we heading over through Turkey Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan ferry to Kazakstan then muck around over there in the stans before heading over to Mongolia back into Russia and the road of bones and Magadan.

No real set route other then east and out of there before it gets to cold not sure of Asia or the states yet and how long ill be two up is open at this stage we are jsut going to go with the flow and enjoy the ride,

Keep in touch we might hook up at some point www.rideforsmiles.com
safe travels guys

If you have time or need a nice pit-stop, just give a call at our club..
Welcome drinks, İstanbul-Turkey maps, experience exchanges,adventure talks,
and a weekend camping-chicken in tin party in the forest will be waiting for you.

All questions
about entering Turkey on bike,riding through,routes-top places to see according to your likes/dislikes,some tips,spare parts, current bordergate inf.,shipping bikes from İstanbul to abroad, etc. always friendly welcome.

Wish you all the best.

Mehmet Zeki Avar
https://www.facebook.com/mehmet.avar.12

Hi Mehmet, ill be in Instanbul for a few weeks in late March April be nice to meet up. A few of the guys I have met in my travels have visited you Henning from Denmark heading south through Africa who I met in Nairobi and Mike Lewis an American guy I rode from Nairobi to Egypt with.

I was in Turkey in June on my way to Europe from Africa and travelled into Mersin via ferry from Egypt then road along the coast road (what a ride) to Antalya (beautiful coastline), up to Pummlakale pools (amazing) Selcuk ( fantastic ruins) Izmir Canakkale and over to Gallipoli for obvious reasons being an Aussie.

I left Instanbul off my list at the time as I knew I was heading back down that way as I am now, im really looking forward to getting back there, you have a beautiful country only matched by the people I met on my way through.

This time Ill be going through Instanbul Ankara and Cappadoccia and over towards the Stans. Im going to be organising my visa's for the Stans in Instanbul and Ankara which im hoping will go ok. I know theres the Armenian and Kazak embassys in Instanbul so im hoping to do those in my time in Instanbul. Ive been onto the Stantours website in regards of the letters of introduction but as im not sure when im going to be there and where im going at this stage it makes it tricky to ge them just yet.

Hopefully crossing into Turkey goes ok this time as when I came in via ferry last time it took me 8 hours and was chaotic but in saying that the ferries had just started up again so im sure they were still sorting stuff out as noone seemed to know what the hell was going on.

I Know cops ride the Gs 800's down there so might give my bike a full overhaul while im there buy some tyres and get a chain and sprockets sent down to your place while im there as im probably going to need them beofre i get to the other side of Russia.

Talk soon Mehmet and to everyone else safe travels hope to catch you all on the road somewhere.

Sheldon