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18 July, Veranşehir to Kiziltepe, 73km
Dunaysir Hotel 120TL (breakfast included) (negotiated down from 140TL)

Our day was done and dusted by 13:00. A good thing as this is around the time our Lomotil wears off! Yes, we both have the trots. Yay. For the last two days we have been cycling the plains of ancient Mesopotamia, with the Syrian border just a few kms to the south. Today we saw a recently killed donkey, bloody and very dead, obstructing still the two-lane D400. Roadkill is distressingly close when you travel by bike. I can cope with the numerous small brown birds and splat-flat hedgehogs and occasional snake. Even one dead jackal and one dead owl, not much damaged, were bearable. Harder though to see are dead puppies and cats, horribly mangled. When I first catch sight of these, I try to plot a course that keeps me safe from thundering trucks yet enables me to steer past the dead using peripheral vision only. We are finding the dogs of the “wild east” more aggressive than they were in the west, though their owners call them off as soon as they see we are being targeted. 

Between Veranşehir and Kiziltepe
Between Veranşehir and Kiziltepe
Between Veranşehir and Kiziltepe
Between Veranşehir and Kiziltepe
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