Our Plan - Four parts

At this page you can find our itinerary for this trip. If you know something that we don't know or want to share advice for us - please feel free - the only knowledge we got was from the Internet. As it is normal during travelling something may change in our agenda, we will be informing about this.

Our journey consists of 4 parts:

1.
The first part is Western Turkey with Ege and Akdeniz Region. From Istanbul to Alanya.
Route: about 1500km
Duration: about 10days
Time: 28 March - 06 April 2012
Main places: Istanbul-Izmir-Selcuk-Didim-Bodrum-Marmaris-Fethiye-Demre-Finike-Antalya-Alanya

2. The second part is Eastern Turkey from Alanya to Turkish-Georgian border
Route: about 2100km
Duration: 7days
Time: 06 April-13 April 2012
Main Places: Kizkalesi, Adana, Gaziantep, Diyarbakir, Van, Erzurum, Rize

3. The third part is Georgia-Armenia
Route: about 1200km
Duration: 19days
Time: 13 April-01 May 2012
Main Places: Batumi, Tbilisi, Yerevan

4. The fourth part is Georgia-Poland
Route: about 3200km

Duration: 10days
Time: 01 May-11 May 2012
Main Places: Batumi, Samsun, Ankara, Istanbul, Burgas, Chisinau, Lviv, Warsaw

 

5. Summary:
Route: about 8000km
Duration: 46days
Avg. km/day:  174km/day
Time: 28 March-11 May 2012
Countries: Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Poland

Hello Anatolia!

Hello there,
Welcome to our blog about Anatolian Adventure of 2 past-Erasmus Students from Ankara University. We are going to visit Anatolia from Istanbul to Turkish-Georgian border and then we will go to Georgia and Armenia. After the journey we want to go back from Armenia through Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine to Poland. The journey will take about 1,5 months.

We are budget travellers - our whole journey we hitchhike, eat vege use discount id's. We also have a pleasure to use the hospitality of great people from the couchsurfing.org. We are couchsurfers and host people in our flats and we belive that's highly beneficial way of travelling.

The most important for us is to talk to the people, to get know their opinions, views and hints about many things – it's the best and the most exciting way of discovering the world. We don't like boring guides and hotels. If you're the CS member we think that you feel the same spirit – you know exactly what we write about.

This blog is being created in order to describe our trip and popularise knowledge about Anatolia, Georgia, Armenia among our friends. After the journey we'll also translate this blog for our non-English chaps, but first English original.

We hope that Turkish, Georgian, Armenian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Moldovan, Ukrainian folks will contribute to this blog.
Our Motto: Adventure ! (polish: Przygoda!)

Meet us:

Jagoda (pronounce Yagoda): Music journalism student from city of Wroclaw.
Her personal motto: If you don't like where you are - change it. You are not a tree.
The happiest people aren't waiting for anything to happen!

Her aims: to take advantage of experiencing new places and cultures in
the most enjoyable possible way, check my own limits and have a
possibility of getting to know Armenian and Georgian music with
traditional instruments and dances

Chris: student of veterinary medicine from Warsaw

His personal motto: As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do

His aims:  to see origin of Van cats, visit last part of Turkish Riviera, enjoy famous Georgia and Armenia

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