It was a hike with Idadik.org. First of all, we made a long way by car from Izmir to Konya province. It took all night to get there. Our car isn’t very comfortable. We were three passengers on the back seat. I was able to sleep maybe a couple of hours that night. Our car isn’t off-road, so we got some troubles trying to reach alpinist’s camp. Sometimes our car couldn’t make it up the hill, and we had to push it. In addition, the car hit a sharp rock and tore a tire. It wasn’t an easy walk.

The path itself isn’t very hard technically, but the weather was hot. Lack of sleep also had an impact. When we reached the summit, we got a shot dinner and fall asleep immediately. After this short rest the way back was easier. On this trip, the scotch tape I took on every trip finally came in handy. One of the team members’ shoe soles started to come off. We had to fix them with scotch tape and some ropes we had on hand. So the adventures weren’t over yet. In the end, everyone arrived safely at the camp, where a spring with cold mountain water awaited us.

From my point of view, Taurus mountains are similar as mountains in Uzbekistan, where I was. Hot weather in the summer, lack of water but clean air and beautiful panoramas. wikiloc

A vehicle was also waiting to take us to another camp. We moved to Ulukışla, Niğde to find a place to lunch, but we had a lack of time. We had to reach another place near Karagol lake, and our driver hadn’t known exact coordinates. It was evening already, so we bought some burgers and ayran, jumped into the car and moved on. There were no signposts, and after an hour of wandering in the dark, we finally found a place to camp. We quickly pitched our tents and passed out. More on that in the next post.