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If you were thinking about the destination for your car-holiday and somebody told you that Carnet de passage (a special document for the car) is not necessary anymore, don’t trust him. I mean if you don’t intend to spend several pleasant days at the borders, have to pay loads of money and had to hire […]

Exploring the unknown. A few days of nice weahter in Cilo Dag Mountains, probably the most beatiful mountin range in Turkey. „Nobody has skied there before, you can’t go alone, we rather show you the way“ the locals insisted so we had a guidance for the first part of the approach of the valley. And […]

…barbed wire, kalashnikows and surprising openness of the Turkish army on our way to mountain paradise where the habitability of the locals seems to have no limits When you tell somebody in the Western part of Turkey that you are going to Hakkari, he would be asking you whether you know what you are doing. Hakkari, a city […]

Newroz – it’s a festival of spring equinox, celebrating the return of the season of light and also the most important Kurdish festival, which has become one of the symbols of the fight of the Kurds of independence. Women in colourful clothes, men in traditional beige suits or with a scarf or a red-yellow-green head-string. […]

Lake Van is a big blue spot on the map of South-Eastern Turkey. More than thousand years ago, the eastern part of the lake lay at the heart of the Armenian empire. Seven-times bigger than the City of Prague, the lake was created by an eruption of Nemrut Dag which blocked the natural outflow of […]

Finally a higher mountain and a good weather forecast at the same time! Recently, it has been dry weather in Capadocia so we hoped that the conditions on the highest peak of Central Anatolia – Erciyes Dagi would be good. Filming in Capadocia took longer then expected, therefore we arrived to the Erciyes ski resort […]

We have already driven some 4,000 kilometres and surprisingly, we have not been pulled over by the cops yet! And the first border guard post to take any interest in our big roof box was the Turkish one. We have learned that in order to speed up border checks, the best answer to the question […]

Heavy snowfall, cloudy, Heavy snowfall, strong winds… the weather forecast for the Albanian part of Prokletje Mountains has been more then discouraging in the last days. In such conditions we didn’t want to take the risk of climbing and skiing the steep slopes of Prokletje. Therefore, we picked up Durmitor – the limestone beauty of […]

A mosque situated close to orthodox and catholic churches, just nearby is a synagogue. Maur architecture mixed with buildings designed in „Vienna“ style. People of various religions and nationalities, houses with holes from gun shots, big cemeteries from the civil war and kitsch places for tourists. Great burek with cheese, strong Bosnian coffee and local […]

Last year, close to Jahorina Mountains – in Bjelašica mountains – one Slovenian paraglider landed unplanned and was so unlucky that the stepped on a land mine which took both of his legs. However, in Jahorina Mountains, you can find luxury hotels and modern six person chair lifts like in an Austrian ski-resort. Unfortunately, the […]