2019-04-17 Day 202 Wed




A little rain last night which froze to the sides of the vehicle. -2.5℃ this morning. Snowing gently as we left our camp site. John encouraged me to drive out which I did and felt more comfortable towards the end of the track.

Back on the road we high tailed it towards Ankara. Stopping at a watering hole to fill with water via the hose this time

 

The entry "gates" to Ankara












Wonderful big mosque on the outskirts of town.


Drove to the Turkmenistan consulate to pick up the paperwork for the transit visa’s.

This may look like normal traffic but the two right hand lanes are parked. For a small fee A guy will look after your car  and move it if the inside parked car needs to exit. John sat in ours.

Whose speedo is easy to read at 82kph??



Then back out of town to camp looking down onto Ankara. We had tried to go higher up the old track but although rocky the ground was very wet and we were making a mess, so reversed down a bit and parked for the night. Lots of lights of the city was quite pretty.

 226km