by Sezgin | Aug 9, 2015 | SeedsonWheels |
Before we started travelling, we researched about South Asian countries a lot; but we didn’t think that someday we will go to Russia. We hastily write how to read Cyril letters on a paper; we can read almost everything even we can’t understand what it is. Irina, with whom we met on the plane, takes place in our story as a young Russian woman graduated from a university in Shanghai, visiting her family in summer holiday. As a fluent English speaker, she gives important tips to us about Lake Baikal during the flight. By chance, we learn that her house is close to the house of the couple who will host us via Couchsurfing. When the plane lands on the airport of the city dominated by Brezhnev blocks, we leave her to wait for a wheelchair as we got used to in South Korea. After everybody gets off, at the end of our long waiting we understand that staff of the airport has a totally different idea! Without using even the stairs of the plane, we get on a truck from the emergency exit and get off on the other side of the road which would take less than a minute by walking. It wasn’t necessary, really, but we can not explain it to the staff. When we get off, waiting for a wheelchair, we find ourselves queuing with crutches in a building looks like a train station of a small city. “What is all about?” We ask for help from a passenger to carry the bags and pass the passport check. According to the paper given to us,...
by Sezgin | Jul 26, 2014 | SeedsonWheels |
Travellers find travellers on the road. A hitch-hiker, who we took while we were going from Fethiye to Bördübet, calls us when we were in Amazon. We say where we are and comes by hitch-hiking again. Just at that time, another car arrives with four people in it. Two couples one of which travelling by their car and the other one is travelling by hitch-hiking. They had met on the way too. By the way, at this precise moment, 9 people come together who met just because they are all on the same road. We share the night at the same table on the ground, around the same fire. After the staff of Amazon Club came and put out our fire, we continue talking by lighting lots of candles. Also a couple with a caravan camps close to us. We leave there with 5 people in the morning. With Selçuk, Anıl and Büşra, except us. We decide to spend the day and night together. We decide where to go all together as five travellers in the same caravan. We climb to Bayır Village in Marmaris and drink water near an old plane tree. Then we find a place to camp in the forest after taking enough water for all of us. Our dinner is combined of whatever everybody has. At night, we light a fire and talk about our dreams, hopes and despair. After spending 2 nights and a whole day together, everybody goes on their way. While we are going north, towards Iasos, Anıl and Büşra goes south,...
