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Amasra (in Explore 08-02-2020)

            Amasra is a nice little town, situated on the Black Sea Coast of Turkey. We drove all along the coast from the west to the east of Turkey, a stretch of more than 1300 km. The town is situated in a scenic bay, and one of the touristic attractions at the coast. Unfortunately the weather during this period was not that good, so no sunny beaches. 

But the Black sea coast is wonderful, and contrary to what I thought most of it is bordered by mountains, so when you leave the coast going south, you also go up, and have wonderful views of the sea or the mountains.

20 September I came back from my journey over a part of the Silk Road to and through Central Asia. 4 months of traveling through 14 countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran)  before I flew home from Teheran. An impressive  journey in countries that are extremely beautiful, with lovely and welcoming people and diverse cultures and history. 

Intense traveling with more than 20000 kilometers in our mobile home on sometimes roads that hardly could be called that way.  We saw many villages and cities (some wonderful, others very ugly), countries that are transforming from the old Soviet era into something more related to older cultures and the way people live, often funded by oil readily available around the Caspian sea. We saw the amazing mountains south of the Black Sea, the wonderful Caucasus, and the high mountains in the far east close to China with peaks over 7000 meter, and not to forget the (Bulgarian) Alps!

We crossed the great steppe of Kazakhstan. a drive of at least 5000 km, the remnants of lake Aral, once one of the biggest lakes of the world, saw a rocket launch from Baikonur (this little part is Russian owned), we crossed many high mountains passes, and drove the breathtaking canyon that comes from the Pamir, beginning at ca 4500 meter, and going down for ca. 400km to an altitude of 1300 meter, driving for 100's of kilometers along the Afghan border. 

And then the numerous lakes with all sorts of different colors from deep cobalt blue to turquoise, and one rare spectacle in Turkmenistan where a gas crater is burning already for more than 40 years. And finally and certainly not the least to mention an enormous amount of wonderful, hospitable and welcoming people. The woman often dressed in wonderful dresses, and bringing a lot of color in the streets of almost of all countries we visited.

Taken in: Turkey / Bartın / Amasra (show map)

Taken on: June 19, 2019

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Camera: Sony SLT-A65V, f/9.0, 1/640 sec, 8mm (=12mm), ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony SLT-A65V
Lens:	8-16mm F4.5-5.6
Aperture:	f/9.0
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/640)
Focal Length:	8mm (35mm equivalent: 12mm)
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Daylight
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
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