Hi John,
I read your tip on the istanbul-tehran bus. I am planning to make this journey sometime later this year. Could you please provide me with one more piece of information – Are there toilets in the bus (for the 2500km journey!) ?
thanks,
Prashanth
Zurich
Hey there Peashanth, thank you for visiting my pages; so about the bus tehran to istanbul, no there were no toilets in the bus, BUT somehow the bus stops quite a few times. i'm one of those people that goes to toilete every 2minutes and i don't actually remember of such subject while on this trip. I do remember the bus stoped lots of times. either to eat something, drink some tea or do the prayers…
I MADE the other way round Tehran->Istanbul
when actually are you thinking on going on that bus?
Hi. We are planning a trip through the High Atlas from Marrekesh to Zagora in a 4×4 with our children. I suffer from vertigo and wonder just how scary those mountain roads are! Some look quiet narrow- room only for one vehicle? What would you suggest? We go in mid October and are really looking forward to it. Staying in Marrakesh and one night in Zagora. Is it possible to get into the desert easily from there given that we might not arrive until about 4pm.
Thanks, love the site.
hello gail lautieri,
thank you for your comment.
well about the road from marrakech to zagora…hum.. they are very scary but not one vehicle road. you have 2 sides.
the bad areas of the high atlas on this trajectory are only about 80km after marrakech.
marrakech – ouarzazate are about 208km. the bad roads maybe around 50km in the highest parts. but i mean, they are ok, not veryyyy scary. maybe if you are on your first year with driving license yes, you will have a bad time, but i guess its not the case. if you suffer form vertigo, hum.. might be rough. try not to look.
while in marrakech, try this riad, as you take your children, this is a private hotel house riad that has suites with rooms for children. check it out at:
hey,
i have traveled about as extensively as you just diff.
parts of the world, i am also 25. however, i am going to have a baby in the spring and i wanted to know
what you thought about traveling to persia with a
baby. if spending a bit more on a bit more luxuries…
you showed me chefchaouen and sahara one year and a half ago. my fiance is going to the kingdom of morocco from january – may. i will be in ghana from january – may. We will both be in europe in the end of may. i want to cross your path again.
Boa Noite Joao Leitao,é assim tive a procurar uma escola de Kung Fu em evora e encontrei uma zona de treinos em evora fiquei radiante, eu tenho 13 anos e gostaria de saber se os treinos sao aquela hora ou se sofreram alteraçoes .
ola joao,
so quero dizer que adoro essa predisposiçao para a vida, o verdadeiro “bon vivan”.
se algum dia precisares de uma “travelling friend”… ja tens o meu endereço… bjo e como tu dizes….
boas viagens
Hello John,
I read yr travel blog and am impressed by the details. Good job !!! I need yr advises on Iran. I plan to visit Iran on the 1st week of December. I have 10 days to spend. My questions :
1. Can you suggest me an itinerrary on where / which place is a must go. There are so many beautiful places and I’m confused. Plz advise me on budget hostels all the way as well.
2. How much is the price of cheap food which I can buy from the street stalls such as kebab + rice, kebab + bread, buns, pizza, sandwiches, plain bread, sweet buns, yogurt, fruit juice, ice cream etc ? How much must I allocate for budget meals (BF, L, D) per day ? (I am not a heavy eater).
3.I would also like to link my travel with one of the neighbouring country. Which one is a better option and not too costly between Armenia, Ajerbaijan and Turkmenistan ? Plz advise me on the transportation as well (from Teheran).
Additional info : I’m a female muslim, travelling with a female friend and my 14 year old son. I am an experienced backpacker but on a shoestring budget, so recommendations on accomodation, food, transportation etc must be ‘the cheapest but not soooo bad’ available. We are tough people, so a lil bit of uncomfortableness is not an isuue, and we are very used to rush from one place to another
I am traveling to Morocco on Aug. 27. I just found your blog tonight and have learned so much. Would you e-mail me? I would like to ask some specific questions about traveling in Morocco. This will be my first visit and I am so looking forward to it.
Thank you
Bernie
hey!! this is a very useful and infrmative blog, needless to say i’m just of what you are doing..well, like everyone else ( i suppose) i have some questions..
i’m going to iran this november for about 2 weeks, i week for a conference and thought of doing some traveling the week later..i plan to go to istanbul by bus, as i heard it is the cheapest..however, i need to ask whether it is safe to go there alone (i’m a sigle 25 muslim student)..and i need to spare 4 days just for the trip, rite?
and how frequent does the bus go tehran-istanbul-tehran?
i need some suggestions on the cheapest hostel, food and transportortation to go about in istanbul..
thank you
Your site is great! I am going to Andorra tomorrow with a group of people. We really want to get an Andorra Passport stamp but hear conflicting things about where and if we can get one. Can you tell me how you got yours? Thank you.
Hello Adam, thank you for your comment. I got my stamp on the Andorran border to France, and simply stop my car, went inside the little border control house and asked for a stamp. they were nice to stamp it. Easy!!! Good luck! why is so difficult to get a stamp? never heard about it. What did you ear? Cheers
Joao-
Glad I found this blog. I am trying to find good images of passport stamps of the Czech Republic, Austria & Hungary to do a commemorative needle work of the places my daughter & her husband went on their honeymoon as a gift to them. If you or anyone else could help w/ this I’d be very grateful!
Good afternoon! Where I can to write also to whom, I was deceived by swindlers from Senegal! They have gained the confidence of me and could convince me that I should help the unknown girl which very much suffers there in Dakar! I know phone numbers of these swindlers, I have their passports (if they truthful) Thanks. I will look forward to hearing.
Hi, until recently I traveled mainly all over Asia and hardly had time for other places. However, since some time I am eying on other continents as well. Thank you for your site, I learned a lot an I am looking forward to my next trip.
Hello,
I am a victim of a big manupilation from a senegalese fellow, he put in auto24 a picture of a van ,and I was interested ,then we talk in the phone ,he tolkd me He already move and the garage will delevery me the van , a volswagen then I have to send money true western union and I have to keep the receip intil I receive the van!I got the call from the garage ,they will be at my home at arround 05h30 PM then on that time western union was closed, then I make the transfer true western and keep the secret code with me until the garagist arrive.Then never see any more that van and the next day I went to western to try to cancel the trabsfer , he was already collected without the secret code and question/answer!!!They cheat my 2.068 euros!!I put their mail just plse help to sen send this mail to all security agents and police in senegal if they can stop that thief because he will continous to do for other same !This is the name ,he use to collect money:
Nom: MENIER
Prénom: René
Adresse: 15 AVENUE DE LA REPUBLIQUE
Ville: WASTER
Pays: SENEGAL
Code postal: 00221
MONTANT: 2000€
Frais de mandat: 70€
TYPE DE MANDAT: WESTERN UNION
This is mail!Just have look how is the technic ,he use:
De : Rene Menier
À : DEDE LUSANGI
Envoyé le : Mercredi 13 Juillet 2011 7h56
Objet : VOICI MES COORDONNEES POUR LE MANDAT WESTERN UNION à 2000€
Bonjour
Le livreur m’a aussi contacté et me faisait comprendre que après tous les contrôles qu’il ne pourra pas prendre de la liquidité auprès de vous, pour des raisons de securité, donc il a demandé que ce serait un mandat via western union que vous allez faire à échanger contre la voiture à la livraison. Parcontre il a demandé que le mandat soit fait avant son arrivée. Pour faire le mandat, vous aurez à choisir une QUESTION/RÉPONSE et CODE MTCN pour sécuriser votre argent et au cas où la voiture ne vous plairait pas alors vous pourrez toujours aller reprendre votre argent à la poste. Donc vous irez dans un bureau de la western union ou à la poste et vous effectuerez un mandat via western union, après avoir fait le mandat via western union, vous aurez le reçu du mandat sur lequel il y aura la QUESTION/RÉPONSE et CODE MTCN avec vous, vous le gardez jalousement sur vous, car c’est ça qui me servira à faire le retrait des fonds, et une fois que le livreur sera là vous signerez la convention de vente et de là vous pouvez lui remettre le reçu du mandat en échange de la voiture. Voici les coordonnées dans les quelles vous allez établir le mandat western union.
Nom: MENIER
Prénom: René
Adresse: 15 AVENUE DE LA REPUBLIQUE
Ville: WASTER
Pays: SENEGAL
Code postal: 00221
MONTANT: 2000€
Frais de mandat: 70€
TYPE DE MANDAT: WESTERN UNION
Pour faire ce mandat vous irez dans un bureau de western union ou à la poste avec mes coordonnées et les 2500€ en liquidité et vous demandez a faire un mandat western union, les agents du bureau vont vous laissez un papier que vous allez remplir et vous mettrez mes coordonnées sur ce papier, que vous allez remettre à l’agent du bureau, et après avoir terminé de faire le mandat on vous donnera le reçu du mandat qui me permettra à faire le retrait de l’argent, vous le gardez jalousement sur vous car c’est ça qui va me servir à faire le retrait de l’argent à la poste. Après avoir eu le reçu du mandat vous contactez le transporteur pour lui confirmer que vous êtes prêt de votre coté car il serait en attente de la confirmation du mandat avant de passer.
IMPORTANT:
NB: Vous aurez les frais du mandat à payer qui vont s’elevez à 70€, mais à votre aide si l’agent de la poste vous demande la raison du mandat ne dites pas ou ne notez pas sur le papier à remplir qu’il s’agit d’un achat ou d’une vente, ni du commerce sinon les frais du mandat vous seront trop chère, pour la raison du mandat veuillez bien noter sur le papiers à remplir que vous voulez le faire à un de vos familles ou à un ami qui est en voyage la vous aurez que 70€ à payer, si vous precisez qu’il s’agit d’un achat les frais du mandat vous seront trop chère, donc ne precisez pas sur le papier que c’est une vente. Vous pouvez deduire les 70€ de frais d’envoi des 2000€.
Merci à vous .
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Hi, everybody! I Maxim, Russia Moscow! I have been deceived very false swindlers from Senegal the city of Dakar! I have all numbers of mobile phones, copies of passports, as all possible documents (false documents of bills on which are millions dollars). I have written in Interpol, I have written all that that considered it necessary to write! I hope when be these people will pay for all that that have made!
Welcome to my Wordpress escapade of daily articles, ideas & stuff to share, etc. I'm a Portuguese guy living in Sahara Desert, south east Morocco.
Hi John,
I read your tip on the istanbul-tehran bus. I am planning to make this journey sometime later this year. Could you please provide me with one more piece of information – Are there toilets in the bus (for the 2500km journey!) ?
thanks,
Prashanth
Zurich
Hey there Peashanth, thank you for visiting my pages; so about the bus tehran to istanbul, no there were no toilets in the bus, BUT somehow the bus stops quite a few times. i'm one of those people that goes to toilete every 2minutes and i don't actually remember of such subject while on this trip. I do remember the bus stoped lots of times. either to eat something, drink some tea or do the prayers…
I MADE the other way round Tehran->Istanbul
when actually are you thinking on going on that bus?
Hi. We are planning a trip through the High Atlas from Marrekesh to Zagora in a 4×4 with our children. I suffer from vertigo and wonder just how scary those mountain roads are! Some look quiet narrow- room only for one vehicle? What would you suggest? We go in mid October and are really looking forward to it. Staying in Marrakesh and one night in Zagora. Is it possible to get into the desert easily from there given that we might not arrive until about 4pm.
Thanks, love the site.
hello gail lautieri,
thank you for your comment.
well about the road from marrakech to zagora…hum.. they are very scary but not one vehicle road. you have 2 sides.
the bad areas of the high atlas on this trajectory are only about 80km after marrakech.
marrakech – ouarzazate are about 208km. the bad roads maybe around 50km in the highest parts. but i mean, they are ok, not veryyyy scary.
maybe if you are on your first year with driving license yes, you will have a bad time, but i guess its not the case. if you suffer form vertigo, hum.. might be rough. try not to look.
while in marrakech, try this riad, as you take your children, this is a private hotel house riad that has suites with rooms for children. check it out at:
riad marrakech
i bet you will like it.
to arrive in the desert. well i don’t really fancy zagora desert. i love merzouga desert instead.
merzouga desert is 400km from ouarzazate. you might want to consider it.
if you need more help around morocco check out this travel guide:
guide to morocco
ok enjoy morocco and thank you for visiting my site!
hey,
i have traveled about as extensively as you just diff.
parts of the world, i am also 25. however, i am going to have a baby in the spring and i wanted to know
what you thought about traveling to persia with a
baby. if spending a bit more on a bit more luxuries…
one more thing…
i am tatted up, including a tattoo on my neck.
what did the iranians think of yours?
joao,
you showed me chefchaouen and sahara one year and a half ago. my fiance is going to the kingdom of morocco from january – may. i will be in ghana from january – may. We will both be in europe in the end of may. i want to cross your path again.
craig
Boa Noite Joao Leitao,é assim tive a procurar uma escola de Kung Fu em evora e encontrei uma zona de treinos em evora fiquei radiante, eu tenho 13 anos e gostaria de saber se os treinos sao aquela hora ou se sofreram alteraçoes .
Sem mais assuntos a tratar
Cumprimentos!
Hey there, just came across your site and wanted to say, nicely done. Happy trails!
Bob
Good site!!!
Du musst ein Fachmann sein – wirklich guter Aufstellungsort, den du hast!
Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks
Ni hao!
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ola joao,
so quero dizer que adoro essa predisposiçao para a vida, o verdadeiro “bon vivan”.
se algum dia precisares de uma “travelling friend”… ja tens o meu endereço… bjo e como tu dizes….
boas viagens
favorited this one, guy
Hello John,
I read yr travel blog and am impressed by the details. Good job !!! I need yr advises on Iran. I plan to visit Iran on the 1st week of December. I have 10 days to spend. My questions :
1. Can you suggest me an itinerrary on where / which place is a must go. There are so many beautiful places and I’m confused. Plz advise me on budget hostels all the way as well.
2. How much is the price of cheap food which I can buy from the street stalls such as kebab + rice, kebab + bread, buns, pizza, sandwiches, plain bread, sweet buns, yogurt, fruit juice, ice cream etc ? How much must I allocate for budget meals (BF, L, D) per day ? (I am not a heavy eater).
3.I would also like to link my travel with one of the neighbouring country. Which one is a better option and not too costly between Armenia, Ajerbaijan and Turkmenistan ? Plz advise me on the transportation as well (from Teheran).
Additional info : I’m a female muslim, travelling with a female friend and my 14 year old son. I am an experienced backpacker but on a shoestring budget, so recommendations on accomodation, food, transportation etc must be ‘the cheapest but not soooo bad’ available. We are tough people, so a lil bit of uncomfortableness is not an isuue, and we are very used to rush from one place to another
Regards,
Anita
Malaysia
I am traveling to Morocco on Aug. 27. I just found your blog tonight and have learned so much. Would you e-mail me? I would like to ask some specific questions about traveling in Morocco. This will be my first visit and I am so looking forward to it.
Thank you
Bernie
hey!! this is a very useful and infrmative blog, needless to say i’m just of what you are doing..well, like everyone else ( i suppose) i have some questions..
i’m going to iran this november for about 2 weeks, i week for a conference and thought of doing some traveling the week later..i plan to go to istanbul by bus, as i heard it is the cheapest..however, i need to ask whether it is safe to go there alone (i’m a sigle 25 muslim student)..and i need to spare 4 days just for the trip, rite?
and how frequent does the bus go tehran-istanbul-tehran?
i need some suggestions on the cheapest hostel, food and transportortation to go about in istanbul..
thank you
farah
malaysia
Your site is great! I am going to Andorra tomorrow with a group of people. We really want to get an Andorra Passport stamp but hear conflicting things about where and if we can get one. Can you tell me how you got yours? Thank you.
Adam / Canadian in Perpignan
Hello Adam, thank you for your comment. I got my stamp on the Andorran border to France, and simply stop my car, went inside the little border control house and asked for a stamp. they were nice to stamp it. Easy!!!
Good luck! why is so difficult to get a stamp? never heard about it. What did you ear? Cheers
Joao-
Glad I found this blog. I am trying to find good images of passport stamps of the Czech Republic, Austria & Hungary to do a commemorative needle work of the places my daughter & her husband went on their honeymoon as a gift to them. If you or anyone else could help w/ this I’d be very grateful!
I am very happy to be with your web site thanks
I am very happy that i can know this website thanks
Good afternoon! Where I can to write also to whom, I was deceived by swindlers from Senegal! They have gained the confidence of me and could convince me that I should help the unknown girl which very much suffers there in Dakar! I know phone numbers of these swindlers, I have their passports (if they truthful) Thanks. I will look forward to hearing.
Hi, until recently I traveled mainly all over Asia and hardly had time for other places. However, since some time I am eying on other continents as well. Thank you for your site, I learned a lot an I am looking forward to my next trip.
Hello,
I am a victim of a big manupilation from a senegalese fellow, he put in auto24 a picture of a van ,and I was interested ,then we talk in the phone ,he tolkd me He already move and the garage will delevery me the van , a volswagen then I have to send money true western union and I have to keep the receip intil I receive the van!I got the call from the garage ,they will be at my home at arround 05h30 PM then on that time western union was closed, then I make the transfer true western and keep the secret code with me until the garagist arrive.Then never see any more that van and the next day I went to western to try to cancel the trabsfer , he was already collected without the secret code and question/answer!!!They cheat my 2.068 euros!!I put their mail just plse help to sen send this mail to all security agents and police in senegal if they can stop that thief because he will continous to do for other same !This is the name ,he use to collect money:
Nom: MENIER
Prénom: René
Adresse: 15 AVENUE DE LA REPUBLIQUE
Ville: WASTER
Pays: SENEGAL
Code postal: 00221
MONTANT: 2000€
Frais de mandat: 70€
TYPE DE MANDAT: WESTERN UNION
This is mail!Just have look how is the technic ,he use:
De : Rene Menier
À : DEDE LUSANGI
Envoyé le : Mercredi 13 Juillet 2011 7h56
Objet : VOICI MES COORDONNEES POUR LE MANDAT WESTERN UNION à 2000€
Bonjour
Le livreur m’a aussi contacté et me faisait comprendre que après tous les contrôles qu’il ne pourra pas prendre de la liquidité auprès de vous, pour des raisons de securité, donc il a demandé que ce serait un mandat via western union que vous allez faire à échanger contre la voiture à la livraison. Parcontre il a demandé que le mandat soit fait avant son arrivée. Pour faire le mandat, vous aurez à choisir une QUESTION/RÉPONSE et CODE MTCN pour sécuriser votre argent et au cas où la voiture ne vous plairait pas alors vous pourrez toujours aller reprendre votre argent à la poste. Donc vous irez dans un bureau de la western union ou à la poste et vous effectuerez un mandat via western union, après avoir fait le mandat via western union, vous aurez le reçu du mandat sur lequel il y aura la QUESTION/RÉPONSE et CODE MTCN avec vous, vous le gardez jalousement sur vous, car c’est ça qui me servira à faire le retrait des fonds, et une fois que le livreur sera là vous signerez la convention de vente et de là vous pouvez lui remettre le reçu du mandat en échange de la voiture. Voici les coordonnées dans les quelles vous allez établir le mandat western union.
Nom: MENIER
Prénom: René
Adresse: 15 AVENUE DE LA REPUBLIQUE
Ville: WASTER
Pays: SENEGAL
Code postal: 00221
MONTANT: 2000€
Frais de mandat: 70€
TYPE DE MANDAT: WESTERN UNION
Pour faire ce mandat vous irez dans un bureau de western union ou à la poste avec mes coordonnées et les 2500€ en liquidité et vous demandez a faire un mandat western union, les agents du bureau vont vous laissez un papier que vous allez remplir et vous mettrez mes coordonnées sur ce papier, que vous allez remettre à l’agent du bureau, et après avoir terminé de faire le mandat on vous donnera le reçu du mandat qui me permettra à faire le retrait de l’argent, vous le gardez jalousement sur vous car c’est ça qui va me servir à faire le retrait de l’argent à la poste. Après avoir eu le reçu du mandat vous contactez le transporteur pour lui confirmer que vous êtes prêt de votre coté car il serait en attente de la confirmation du mandat avant de passer.
IMPORTANT:
NB: Vous aurez les frais du mandat à payer qui vont s’elevez à 70€, mais à votre aide si l’agent de la poste vous demande la raison du mandat ne dites pas ou ne notez pas sur le papier à remplir qu’il s’agit d’un achat ou d’une vente, ni du commerce sinon les frais du mandat vous seront trop chère, pour la raison du mandat veuillez bien noter sur le papiers à remplir que vous voulez le faire à un de vos familles ou à un ami qui est en voyage la vous aurez que 70€ à payer, si vous precisez qu’il s’agit d’un achat les frais du mandat vous seront trop chère, donc ne precisez pas sur le papier que c’est une vente. Vous pouvez deduire les 70€ de frais d’envoi des 2000€.
Merci à vous .
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Hi, everybody! I Maxim, Russia Moscow! I have been deceived very false swindlers from Senegal the city of Dakar! I have all numbers of mobile phones, copies of passports, as all possible documents (false documents of bills on which are millions dollars). I have written in Interpol, I have written all that that considered it necessary to write! I hope when be these people will pay for all that that have made!
Dear Sir
Please take action for my comments July 27, 2011 at 5:09 pm
I hope check to them because is it true dangerous for people