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Saturday afternoon, the 36 day of our adventure, we took a ferry boat from Bodrum, in Turkey, to Kos, in Greece, and a night ferry to Athens. After 10 hours on the Mediterranean Sea, we arrived in Piraeus (the most important port in Greece, close to Athens) at 6:30 am. We were supposed to meet [...]

In Turkey, we visited some of the most beautiful places of our trip: Cappadocia, Antalya and Pamukkale. In Bodrum, on the southwest coast, though, we were disrespected for the first time in five weeks, and only because we were foreigners. We arrived in the city at 8pm of the day #35 after a trip of [...]

On our way from Yerevan, capital of Armenia, to Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, during the 28th day of our trip, we decided to stop in the small village of Alaverdi. We checked in at Iri’s Guest House, a small and charming hostel with a nice view of the river, which cut through the mountains of [...]

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Balloon flight in Cappadocia. Unforgettable!

Today, we rented three scooters and spent the day visiting Goreme and other villages of Cappadocia, one of the most beautiful places of Turkey, with a lot of history, caves and underground cities.

In the morning, we went swimming on the Black Sea, in Batumi, Georgia. After lunch, we took three buses and two taxis to get to Samsun, Turkey.

We arrived in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, in the afternoon and went out to visit the city. We spend more than five hours walking and came back to the hostel to prepare the dinner.

We were the first Brazilian guests of Iri’s guest house. In the morning, we visited the monasteries of Alaverdi. On the last monastery we went, we found this mulberry tree and we became kids again.

In the morning, we visited Yerevan, capital of Armenia. Yerevan Yerevan Yerevan In the afternoon, we went to Alaverdi.