Day 138 to Bushcamp, Turkey, 125km, 11,373 to date, 571km to go, 2131m up,  908m end. 

A great cycling day, albeit the highest climbing day of the whole trip (2131 metres).  A bit cool for most of the day - jacket on, jacket off, jacket on etc., The  top of climb for the big climb of the day:

We have only 5 riding days left to Istanbul, in fact today was the last Thursday that I will ride!  What for the longest time seemed like an impossibly long way away, is now rushing towards us.

Again last night when the call to prayer was “calling”, all the neighbourhood dogs were howling in unison - it was both funny and oddly pleasant.

Some of the town as viewed from my hotel room:

The countryside in the later part of the day is just like the Kootenays, dry, lots of pine trees.

A couple pics from the early part of the day: