Sick during the night, I couldn’t swallow anything in the morning. I won’t know what made me ill : the water from the Guest House the night before, the chicken I’d eaten in the evening that I thought was too fatty, or simply heatstroke ? The fact remains that it’s not easy to push on the pedals and the heat is becoming unbearable. What’s more, my front panniers easily jump off the rack... [I’d already had problems in Turkey with this luggage rack and panniers, but on this new bike it’s even worse...
The initial route proposed a passage via a ‘secondary’ road with a ‘green’ space on the map, but a government truck passing us told us to turn around... We’ve only gone a few hundred metres on this road and we take the big new normal road, a superb brand new road. We’ll learn later that it’s a gold mine that opened in 2023.
The heat was stifling and there was no shade. We had to walk for miles to find a shady spot. Daniel finds a garden with irrigation water and the grandpa who looks after the place offers us a welcome cup of tea.
We arrive in Nurota, renew our water supply... quickly consumed. We head for a Guest House, which we reach at 3pm, a very late hour for the heat...