We arrived in Turkey on 7 August and left on 5 November with just 1 day left on our tourist visa. During our time, we have covered a total of 6,581 kilometres or 4,089 miles over 89 days. Travelling an average of 74 km per day with the longest journey being 243 km. We travelled through 12 regions, 27 military check points and peaked at 9,800ft driving over a mountain pass. Vin our motorhome consumed 869 litres of diesel from 12 fuel stations with an average of 21 mpg. We’ve filled our LPG bottles 5 times and used 74 litres of gas to heat our home, run the fridge and freezer, hot water, oven, grill, hob and last but not least our BBQ at an average cost of £0.42 per day. Our shopping bill cost the most £743 for 5 supermarket sweeps, 21 mini market mooches and endless ‘what’s that’ from road side vendors. Not forgetting 79 trips to the local bakers to consume over 150 loafs. Eating out cost £116 for 2 evenings of fine dining, 14 kebab meals, 3 pide lunches, 2 breakfasts and 18 nights of traditional open fire feasts. We have paid 0 tolls, 0 tunnels, 0 mountain passes and 1 ferry. We’ve had 0 break in’s, 0 bumps, 1 blow out at the base of Mount Ararat, 1 dicky tap and 1 flat engine battery. Overnight, 11% paid parking, 13% camping areas and 76% wild camping amongst the amazing landscape. A total of 81 days with nothing but glorious sunshine, 5 overcast days, 2 rainy days and 1 thunder storm.
We have genuinely loved every second of our journey but Ancient Ani, Mount Ararat, Rize, Valley of Georgian Castles, Istanbul, Mount Nemrut, Lake Van and the Syrian border towns have created a lasting impression. We won’t miss dust, stray dogs, no pork, lack of turnaround points and car horns. But we will miss Turkeys No1 experience and the one what really touched our hearts, the wonderful hospitality of the Turkish people.
So how much has it cost….£2,068 for everything. A bargain at only £23.24 per day for 2 people and 2 dogs. Oh and we forgot to mention, nearly killed each other twice but as usual, spent the majority of our time loving each other to bits.
Our Bumble Route
Our Bumble Highlights (click to enlarge)
The costs above do not include expenses to get to and from Turkey. They also don’t include any apportionment of annual costs such as motorhome insurance, servicing etc. Once we are home and back in the UK we will do a full cost for our 2018 trip, which will include other countries we travelled through like Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria. We will also update Google maps to link back to blog posts, publish our videos and pdf of sleepy spots.
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