The charm offensive of Nicole to the Iranian consul has success.  They may take away - in privately-audience, with a cup of tea - their visa.

Nicole and Ingrid are found currently in Kagizman, sixty kilometers of the Iranian border. In the city Erzurum. The visa (one month validly) comes to it and a possible extension of the document will cause no problems, insures the charmed young man.

Meanwhile the ladies baked litterally in the sun.  We cycle at present direction Dogubayazit, where we cross the border next week.  It is a beautiful landscape, a large and flat tray, without the slightest protection against the sun.  Day temperatures of 45 degrees Celsius its not abnormal and our body reacts to the unusual heat. We have the whole day headache and feel us tired.  We try to cover our body so well as possible.  Cool down can we only by a filthy water pool.

Yoghurt as refrigerator

Of the inhabitants that they meet, they got yoghurt: "Ayran”, and the men use it against the heat. It is a fixed, salty substanceand.  It is exactly or you in a refrigerator dive.  Unfortunately the effect lasts only a few minutes. We are yet two hundred kilometers of the Iranian border.  We will disappear are bicycles and cross the border, later on.  With a valid visa, but with a small heart.  We hope that we quickly can buy some dunkeys, because long steps with our baggage is under these circumstances too heavy.