Travel photos and journals from across Asia [1997-2025]
Day 8 Cappadocia to Eskişehir We’d planned an early start to head up to the lookout to get some photos of the balloons at sunrise, but the weather had turned, and all flights were cancelled. We were very lucky to get on one at this time of year, it seems. The journey to our next…
The main attraction in Cappadocia is the sunrise hot air balloon flights, and we were up at 05.30 ready for ours. After a lot of faffing around in a minivan doing pickups from various cave hotels, we were driven out into the boonies where the balloons were being filled in the pre-dawn light. A quick…
Day 5 Ankara to Cappadocia Another driving day was ahead, and leaving the city on Saturday morning after another fantastic breakfast was relatively easy. An hour and a half south was Tuz Golu, a massive 1,650 square kilometer endorheic salt lake in central Türkiye and a popular stop for bus tours. The lake went on…
Day 3 Istanbul to Ankara It was time to move on, leaving our Istanbul Airbnb and grabbing a cab to the car rental place, which also proved challenging due to the traffic. There is zero traffic control in Istanbul, so everyone parks and drives where they like, which includes buses squeezing down tiny cobbled streets…
Our second major road trip in the year we both turned half a century had arrived, and this one was taking us out of Asia and to the west. We would be spending almost a month exploring Türkiye (formerly Turkey) and Georgia, where we both get a one-year visa on arrival, so leaving the Asian…