E-bike across Turkey in winter mE 18
morning my friends i mean adana and today i'm gonna start my journey to gaziantep but first i need to retrieve my bike let's see if the bike is still here because it's the first time i i use the hotel did not want to keep my bike so they indicated me a place for parking for cars so i put my bag there, i locked it there, and let's see if it's still there, and then we're gonna go to gaziantep, it's about uh 220 kilometers from here with a lot of climbing, i hope i can do it in two days before the rain arrives basically and yeah, let's see if the.... if i can make it in two days, an adventure to go to gaziantep what the heck, oh my god, so the guy at the entrance is sleeping and uh i'm afraid my bike is uh hidden behind something so the bike is behind there well it's still here, so let's take it uh... let's take it out and then yeah and let's go anyway let's go back to the hotel, and let's load the bike, and let's start our journey to gaziantep glasses let's go i'm starving i just had my chocolate bars i will buy, 1 kg of clementines mandarin mandarin, very nice okay, 1 kg 30 cents for 1 kg, what the hell i am starving small youtuber my name is idriss my name is yves hello hello he did not want me to pay and i am arriving in osmaniye, so it means this morning i did about 85 kilometers but i still have a 125 let's say, or 130 to gaziantep to antep as they say here, oh my god and i'm shattered, and that was the easy part because after here, it's gonna be climbing the mountains are waiting for me, look at that like 10 kilometers ago i had to stop just to eat some nuts because i had no more fuel basically it was like... i was completely empty, my body is not used anymore to those long days on the road a monument in the center of osmaniye there is a doner look at that, that's gonna be my meal place, oh my god i'm destroyed oh, it's almost three o'clock, oh i did eighty five kilometers, just on my breakfast oh hello bread sausage, bread kofta, or lavash bread and sausage so sausage with bread sausage with bread, uh ukraine russia france france yeah ah, she likes sarkozy sarkozy, uncle beautiful i go to Gaziantep, but tomorrow today maybe bahce let's try this sausage sandwich ah, we go together, yeah so i feel a little bit better, i had this uh sausage bread, which was awesome, so look at the sujuk, this is the sausage now i'm getting a kofta bread, getting ready for the bread kofte so he's explaining me, for the ayran like yeah he gave me two bottles of water okay okay okay so he gave me two small bottles of water because actually i've been running out of water, it's good to be back on the road i am arriving in bahce, oh my god ah, it's painful i can barely walk oh my god i need to stretch a lot to be able to, to ride tomorrow, i have i think 90 kilometers, with a lot of climbing in the morning probably, yeah so and that's uh that's my uh 15 dollars room, like usual, i always pay like 200 turkish lira, 15 dollars so that's my fifteen dollars room for the night in bahce, i think half way up up uh the anatolian plateau, because i'm gonna be back on the anatolian plateau tomorrow so see you tomorrow guys, for the second part of this video morning my friends, what a beautiful day to do two high mountain passes at 1000 meters today look at that there is snow up there, snow up there and i'm gonna continue... and this puddle is... it comes from uh... it was snow basically, that's melted snow, so i am at like five or six hundred meters of altitude and have two mountain passes, at about 1000 meters, to reach gaziantep today, about 90 kilometers, that's where i slept tonight, and uh yeah let's go to gaziantep, let's okay okay i don't know see you later i love... people love the bike it's so funny, it's so great to travel with this thing
everybody came to see me, the guy of the hotel, the two women were the cooks life is good on the road, man, you're tired, your body is broken but it doesn't matter, people are happy to see you, that's the most important yeah let's go to antep to gaziantep and that's the first pass of the day, 970 meters and you can see in front that's the next pass for me, covered in snow you broke the ice guys, what happened to you, what the hell, okay let's go down let's go to the next valley, the last valley before reaching, before climbing on the anatolian plateau oh my god wow that's insane look at that so here you have my bicycle well my trike, the pass i just reached, a small tea house which is closed, the mountain covered in snow, and a deep valley i think... so this passes at almost 1 000 meters, the pass there is going to be 1 100 meters high and we have a deep.... i think the valley is like 400 meters high something like that agricultural valley, so before in adana we were in the cillician plains, very fertile very good for agriculture, and now we reach the last valley, i don't know how it is called and that's the last valley before going back on the anatolian plateau, it looks like somehow the view on the beqaa valley, the difference is the beqaa valley was also very good for agriculture the beqaa valley, the valley was red, the land was red, while here everything is green beautiful so let's make another break, because basically one guy stopped, the guy with the blue car there he stopped to give me mandarins an apple and some rice cakes ah nice people here in turkey, very very very nice people, everybody gives me food, so then i'm almost down already, almost down the valley, that's the city, i think then the the road is going uh it's going this way, i don't know exactly where look at this beautiful fertile agricultural green valley, and let's have the food the man gave me i love those rice cake, rice cakes you see the beautiful bridge for the highway, very nice okay wow that's extraordinary, the snow, you see the the fog oh my god so the snow is basically uh, becoming a cloud, from snow to cloud directly, without becoming liquid so beautiful they have a borek, ayran, okay let's stop here, see you have borek, and cheese cheese okay can i have cheese can i see nice where are you going, antep is it big, small normal, i need one, two okay, i get two okay, one potatoes, and one cheese usually i don't eat borek because uh, i'm not well... there are better things, but now i think i'm probably halfway on the climb, and i really need to eat something because i'm still good but uh if i wait more, if i wait more to eat, i'm gonna be... i'm gonna be very weak when i reach the top and then it's not good, oh my god look, at that, so there is a village actually behind the ridge isn't turkey beautiful, oh my god it's so beautiful here what a beautiful valley, and behind this ridge is gaziantep, and the anatolian plateau here i have my borek, so here i have with potato and here with cheese it looks awesome actually, and i have my ayran of course, let's try this borek actually it's fantastic, it's really good wow bye-bye and back on the road, it's very funny because basically every time i uh, i go somewhere and every time i leave basically, everybody is waiting to see how this bike works they just want to see it moving i think hello 1 100 meters yeah, and i am back on the anatolian plateau oh my god there's snow everywhere except on the road and there is a shop electric nice this is uh water the engine just helps he gave me this it's good what a beautiful landscape, we are in anatolia in winter guys and i am in gazantep guys, oh my god that's so cool i made it, two days 215 kilometers, 2300 elevation gain, i'm back on the road and the mountains of snow, maybe there's... maybe it's not the best
time to to be in gaziantep, because all that is going to be melting, and the streets are like really dirty basically, and yeah my bike is very dirty also, but i am in gaziantep i made it, there are sweets everywhere, oh they have kunefe, oh my god yeah and i've got a hotel, so i'm just gonna... just to finish the video i'm just gonna show you the... show you the hotel, uh i'm gonna say several days here, so i'm gonna do more uh maybe i'm gonna do one, one or two videos here to show you the food because it's supposed to be the capital of turkish food also, supposed to be supposed to be like the best city for the food in turkey, so look at that food everywhere, let's just show you the hotel, they were super nice, it's extremely cheap 140 lira, for one night so less than uh less than 10 euros basically, a bit more than ten dollars it's funny they sell fish, and they also cook it that's gonna be for later strawberries everywhere yeah the hotel is cheap and they also, they they agreed to put my bicycle inside, so that's very nice, so my hotel is erciyes hotel, i saw it in the... on iOverlander actually, an app for overlanders and it had good recommendations on google so that's why i came here yeah let's just show you the hotel and where i parked the bike and that will be the end of this video so that's the so yeah that's, that's the end of this video and see you later, here in gaziantep, for more, more action, ciao guys
2022-03-26 00:07
