Monday, 30 March 2009

Ankara, and after...

I confirmed what I heard about Ankara : nothing to see, move out. So I move. I 've just stayed one day. The good thing is I have tested "Couchsurfing.com" and it work : it wasn't sure because I asked for a couch just the day for the next night. It's a bit short, I should asked before. But , surprise, I had 3 positive answers, and I spend my time in the flat of a French girl, Adelaide, who get used with the couchsurfing web. For my first experience, it was pretty good and I have been really well received. I left the city with very good mood, fresh and ready for a long way under the sun of the spring's sun (it was the 22nd of marsh !) : next step, Erzurum. It seems that a main part of the turkish economy is growing up between Istanbul and Ankara : I needed 3 days to go out the first one, and 2 days to come in the second one. But I just needed 3 hours to go out of Ankara... No more inustry, or urban area, just the country. And no more highway, just a national road not too much busy, so I can walk quietly.
Well, I walked like this until Yozgat, at about 200 km from there. My bag is light, and if the rain let me quiet, I can move on to 50 km steps without too much problems. Anyway, the landscape is sade, even under the sun : just large plains completely cultivated with sometimes some bald hills... and no one tree, nothing. I am surprised, they have cut everything with there industrial culture, there is nothing about kilometers around ! As far I can see from the road, on the last 300 km I did, no forest, no wood, no one grove, nothing ! Sometimes, just 2 or 3 trunks when there is a house... In those conditions, the wind is king. In the back, it can be nice, but on the face, it's a bit impeding. Maybe it could be possible to cross the country on a landyacht ?

So, every thing is OK, I would be in Sivas about th 1st of april...

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