Kars - Kagızman

Kars is on a big plateau - which means there is a lot of "flat" landscape around. My next destination is Igdır. İf you believe google maps there are a 100 ways to go...

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.264857,43.582764&spn=0.755536,1.485901&z=10

Obviously İ stopped believing google on the availability of roads and only the brief hint of a semi reliable source made me take the road to Kagızman - which İ never heard of before :)

What can İ say - it was a fantastic choice!

The first 40 km lead across the plateau to an unnamed pass 2020m high - that bit was a bit lonely and the rather strong head wind did not make me very happy either.
The "pass" is simply the highest point on a big flat something - but then what a change - a lush green valley unfolds in front of me and the road winds down into a paradise like micro cosmos. İ stopped so many times just to look around - simply fantastic...

out of Kars

a little further...

The end of the plateau (world)?

Down we go into another life

The vally İ came down