Albània - Grècia - Turquia - Iran (Biasabad-e Now Sazi - Dasht-e Lut)
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 343.8 mi
- Elevation gain
- 12,215 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 11,686 ft
- Max elevation
- 6,870 ft
- TrailRank
- 25
- Min elevation
- 2,323 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 8 hours 40 minutes
- Coordinates
- 4443
- Uploaded
- January 18, 2023
- Recorded
- October 2022
near Moḩammadābād, Razavi Khorasan (Iran)
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Motorbike trip from Catalonia to Iran passing through Italy, Albania, Greece, Turkey and Iran.
09-10-2022 - At 6 in the morning I leave the tent, there is an icy wind even though the sun is warming.
I switch on the motorcycle and the thermometer reads 8°C, I prepare the coffee and eat a couple of cereal bars. At 2/4 of 8 I start, we are at 18 °C, on the road there are only dump trucks carrying construction material, on the side of the road they are deploying the optical fiber. I arrive at a small town and see a telephone antenna and I stop thinking that there will be internet, but no, I am confirmed by a man who has come to take a picture with his motorbike, after a few minutes they have come two more to take pictures, there's not much fun around there.
At a crossroads there is a La Panadella type truck stop with a gas station and some shops, I stop to check the route and drink water and after a while I have a man asking for a conversation and he says if I want a chai that I happily accept and at the end another one asks if I want to go to his house to sleep, eat, take a shower... it's the second time today that they say to take a shower, I sniff my armpit and cover my nose , the man laughs and says no, I don't stink and sniffs my head and kisses me, hahaha.
I continue to Nehbandan where I stop to fill up on petrol and buy water and provisions for dinner before entering the Dasht-e Lut desert as for the next 300 kms there is nothing, just sand.
I leave the 95 road to take the Shahdad road where I stop at about 130 kms in a place where I can get off the road without getting stuck in the sand and more or less hidden.
I'm 865 meters up, next to the road that crosses the desert.
At 16:30 the temperature is 31°C
There is no telephone coverage.
09-10-2022 - At 6 in the morning I leave the tent, there is an icy wind even though the sun is warming.
I switch on the motorcycle and the thermometer reads 8°C, I prepare the coffee and eat a couple of cereal bars. At 2/4 of 8 I start, we are at 18 °C, on the road there are only dump trucks carrying construction material, on the side of the road they are deploying the optical fiber. I arrive at a small town and see a telephone antenna and I stop thinking that there will be internet, but no, I am confirmed by a man who has come to take a picture with his motorbike, after a few minutes they have come two more to take pictures, there's not much fun around there.
At a crossroads there is a La Panadella type truck stop with a gas station and some shops, I stop to check the route and drink water and after a while I have a man asking for a conversation and he says if I want a chai that I happily accept and at the end another one asks if I want to go to his house to sleep, eat, take a shower... it's the second time today that they say to take a shower, I sniff my armpit and cover my nose , the man laughs and says no, I don't stink and sniffs my head and kisses me, hahaha.
I continue to Nehbandan where I stop to fill up on petrol and buy water and provisions for dinner before entering the Dasht-e Lut desert as for the next 300 kms there is nothing, just sand.
I leave the 95 road to take the Shahdad road where I stop at about 130 kms in a place where I can get off the road without getting stuck in the sand and more or less hidden.
I'm 865 meters up, next to the road that crosses the desert.
At 16:30 the temperature is 31°C
There is no telephone coverage.
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