We’ve been running along borders for the past few days. First we were near the border to Georgia (‘Gerkistan’ in Turkish). Then we came within feet of the Armenian border at Ani. So close in fact that we could see the Russian (Armenia uses the Russian’s as their army) military base and lookout towers.

Turkey and Armenia don’t play together so well and have a closed border, so being in the seriously historic former Armenian capital barely on Turkish soil with armed soldiers wandering around was quite exciting.We followed the Armenian border on our way to Dogubayazit which is on the way to the Iranian border post. Along the way, we went through a handful of checkpoints littered with tanks and armored personnel carriers. That’s Mt. Ararat in the background of the first picture.