Motorcycle Tour - Crossing into Turkey Ep. 22
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00:00It has a problem. I cannot turn it off.
00:22Assalam Alekum and Good Morning Everyone from...
00:25Wait a minute. I can't remember the name of the village properly.
00:28Dotsi Dalchev, Bulgaria.
00:32It's a small village, right next to the Greek border.
00:35Yesterday, I reached here with great difficulty.
00:37And as soon as I reached here, my bike stopped.
00:40I tried to start the bike but it didn't start.
00:45My plan for today is to call a couple of BMW dealers after breakfast.
00:51And then I'll see.
00:52Because the next BMW dealer is either in Sofia, Bulgaria or Thessaloniki, Greece.
00:57Both are at a distance of 255 km.
01:01And there's another option.
01:03If I go to Istanbul and somehow manage to push the bike for the next couple of days,
01:10I can go there and request the BMW dealer.
01:12Because I don't know if they have all the parts needed to repair the bike.
01:17I don't even know which part is broken.
01:20And they will put it on the computer and diagnose the problem.
01:25I have finally decided that instead of waiting here, I am going to Istanbul.
01:32My first stop will be Turkey border.
01:36There is a small city called Edirne.
01:39I will stay there for the night.
01:42It's about 400 km from here.
01:44It will take me almost 8 hours.
01:47Because I am not taking the main highway.
01:49I am taking the highway only. I won't go off road today.
01:52I will try to travel without any restrictions.
01:57But I don't think there will be any problem today.
01:59Because I will be on the highway.
02:01So I will find someone to push the bike for me.
02:05So hopefully, I won't have any problem for the next couple of days.
02:09And I will reach Istanbul.
02:11I have just had my breakfast.
02:13Let's have breakfast, pack our stuff and try our luck.
02:15Let's see if I can start the day without any restrictions.
02:20I haven't started the day yet because I want to start it with you.
02:24Let's pray for a good start.
02:39I am calling the BMW dealer in Istanbul.
02:42I asked him to help me in English.
02:45He hasn't come yet, so I am waiting.
02:47I am asking him to explain the problem to me.
02:50Maybe he can give me a solution.
02:52And if I need to change a part, I can ask him to order it from here.
02:57So that when I reach there, it is already in stock.
02:59Let's see what happens.
03:05Let's start with the name of Allah.
03:07Let's see if it works today.
03:10Let's see.
03:12Rangeeli, don't disappoint me today.
03:17Let's see. Bismillah... In the name of Allah.
03:19I didn't need to sit on it.
03:26Nope.
03:28Is it in neutral?
03:30On horn?
03:32No.
03:34What should I do with it?
03:36Let's catch someone from here and ask him to help me.
03:41And let's start it.
03:44And then let it stop.
03:46And then we will continue with it.
03:49There's a guy standing there.
03:51Let's ask him.
04:14Wait. Wait.
04:16I have to go in the other gear.
04:19Now.
04:37It has started.
04:39Let's not let it stop now.
04:41Let's not let it stop now.
04:47Let's pray that there is no problem now.
04:53Once I get out of here,
04:56Insha Allah.
05:00The Istanbul people haven't called yet.
05:02Let's see what they say.
05:05Let's go.
05:10My gloves are still wet.
05:12And I have to travel with these wet gloves today.
05:23I think I will have to change my route plan.
05:26The bike is in a delicate situation.
05:29I was thinking that the second time I took the road yesterday,
05:33it goes through these mountains.
05:35But that is not the main highway.
05:38But the bike gets so hot at some points,
05:43that I am afraid that if I go from there,
05:47but at least it is paved.
05:50That's not an issue.
05:52Let's go slowly.
05:54Unexpected stay.
05:57I stayed here.
06:00I didn't plan to stay here for the night.
06:03But that's how it is.
06:05You plan something and it happens.
06:07I didn't think that the bike would humiliate me like this.
06:15I have to be very careful with these traffic lights.
06:19Because if you don't leave the clutch properly,
06:22it will stop.
06:23And if it stops, then you have to find someone
06:26to push the bike from behind.
06:37I had decided that I will take a shorter route from here.
06:41You can see the mountains in front of me.
06:44But now I have decided to stay on the highway.
06:48I don't want to do anything else.
06:50I think if I push the bike more,
06:55If the navigation is correct,
06:58I can reach the highway in 5 hours.
07:01But if I take the mountainous route,
07:03it will take me 8 to 9 hours.
07:05It will be very scenic, no doubt.
07:07But if I get stuck there again,
07:09then it will be a problem.
07:11The road is paved.
07:13You don't know that in Bulgaria,
07:15there can be another road.
07:17Just like Google said 2 days ago,
07:19that road should have been paved.
07:22But it wasn't.
07:24So the best option is to take a safe route.
07:27And if you reach Turkey somehow,
07:29you can check the bike there.
07:31And then we will take the best routes in Turkey.
07:35The BMW guys saw my Instagram story yesterday.
07:39I sent them a message and also emailed them.
07:43But they haven't replied yet.
07:45But the offices in Germany are still open.
07:48I think it's Monday.
07:50Yesterday was Sunday.
07:52I hope the mechanic contacts me through someone.
07:55I don't have much hope.
07:57The BMW guys are not that good.
07:59Especially if my content was in English,
08:02and my audience was around 1 to 1.5 lakh,
08:05then they would have been scared.
08:08Or if my content was in German,
08:10they would have contacted me at night.
08:12Because they are scared.
08:14My content is in Urdu now.
08:16They know that it's okay.
08:18It hasn't caused any issue yet.
08:20But after 8000 km,
08:22it shouldn't have been an issue.
08:24Let's see.
08:41We were talking about Muslim villages.
08:44And we were lucky to pass by a Muslim village.
08:48This is our first Muslim village.
08:51I recognized it from a distance.
08:53Because there is a mosque here.
08:55It's a typical Ottoman style mosque.
08:57There are not many big mosques in the villages.
09:00But there are some small and beautiful mosques.
09:03So I am thinking of taking a small risk here.
09:06I will park my car here.
09:08I will park Rangeeli here.
09:10And take some drone shots for you.
09:18Let's go.
09:39There are cameras here.
09:43I couldn't go inside the village.
09:45But I have tried to take a few shots.
09:50All the women here are wearing scarves.
09:54This is the Muslim graveyard on my left.
09:59And the village in front of me is also a Muslim village.
10:05There is a mosque on one side and a church on the other.
10:09I think there are a lot of Muslims living here.
10:12The bike will go on for another 78 km.
10:16I will get it filled from the front.
10:18If I get it filled from here,
10:21then I will have to stop the bike again.
10:25I am thinking of riding for another 50 km.
10:28Because it has 78 km of fuel.
10:32And we have another 300 km ahead of us.
10:35There will be two breaks today.
10:37One at the petrol pump and the other at the border.
10:42Let's go.
11:03I think our route has changed a bit.
11:06It's a mountainous route now.
11:09But it's okay on this road.
11:11There is no problem on this road.
11:13Unless the bike responds on its own.
11:17Hopefully that won't happen.
11:19If I get to Turkey today and Istanbul tomorrow,
11:22then I will be happy with Rangeeli.
11:42I don't want to stop the bike.
11:44I have to fill it with fuel.
11:46The other key.
11:48Because if I take out the other key, it will stop.
11:51Let me open it with the other key.
12:21Now this truck is ahead of us.
12:23Look at the smoke.
12:25And there is no way to pass from here
12:28until the curve ends in front of us.
12:31The truck driver is taking full revenge.
12:41TURKEY
12:52It's starting to snow.
12:56It's a cold region.
12:58And I have to drive slow here because
13:01there is a lot of sand on the road.
13:03In the corners.
13:04I don't know where it came from but it's very slippery.
13:07Yesterday the sand slipped so much that
13:10I lost my balance.
13:12Now I don't want to go near it at full speed.
13:16That's why I am driving a little slow.
13:31Finally we are going down from the pass.
13:35Let me go down and check if the next route
13:38will take me to some other national park.
13:41It was good till here.
13:51The Khoti Redi guys were angry.
13:53They are angry because they have to drive in the rain.
13:56There is a lightning garage ahead.
13:59Looks like you are going to get a warning.
14:03It's okay. It's a routine.
14:05We will bear it today.
14:07It's nothing new.
14:10It's an adventure after adventure.
14:26We have to stay on this road for 21 km.
14:29And then we will hitchhike or take the highway.
14:32It looks like a canyon.
14:34A very beautiful canyon.
14:36There were a couple of places with canyons here.
14:39I had planned to go towards the Turkish border.
14:42But it would have taken me 2 to 3 extra hours to reach there.
14:47And I didn't want to get into any trouble with this bike.
14:52This is also beautiful.
14:54If not that, then this.
15:00We are going to the border.
15:02We are going to the border.
15:04We are going to the border.
15:06We are going to the border.
15:08We are going to the border.
15:10We are going to the border.
15:12We are going to the border.
15:14We are going to the border.
15:16We are going to the border.
15:18We are going to the border.
15:20We are going to the border.
15:22We are going to the border.
15:24We are going to the border.
15:26We are going to the border.
15:30Our highway is far away.
15:32Where is the highway?
15:34It should be here.
15:38So finally the highway is here.
15:40And now we are going to travel all the way to Turkey on the highway.
15:44Inshallah.
15:46Plovdiv is written here.
15:48Plovdiv is the second largest city in Turkey.
15:51We have come a long way to Plovdiv.
15:55I wasn't supposed to come here but I had to.
16:15The wind is very strong.
16:17It's very uncomfortable to ride here.
16:21The GoPro makes the footage smooth.
16:25I don't know why.
16:27But the wind is so strong that I can hardly keep my head straight.
16:32There are no trees on the sides.
16:35If there were any trees, it would be to stop the wind.
16:39These are small bushes.
16:41They are to stop the wind.
16:50Plovdiv
17:01This is a petrol pump before the border.
17:03We are gonna use all the Bulgarian lava here.
17:09And get some petrol in it.
17:11Because the bike shows that we can go for another 45 km.
17:15We will need it in Turkey as well.
17:19So let's get some from here.
17:24I think I will have to do it myself.
17:49We have reached the border.
17:51And there have been queues of trucks here for the last 10 km.
17:56I think they are gonna wait here for a couple of days.
18:00It was so crowded.
18:03And now we have to decide where to go.
18:11There's no one here.
18:19Yes.
18:23Yes.
18:32Is that the customs guy?
18:41I think this is the Bulgarian side and the Turkish side.
18:44It should be Bulgarian.
18:47I am tired of sitting here.
18:50We didn't stop today.
19:10We are done here.
19:16I am exhausted.
19:18When you are tired, you can easily make mistakes.
19:23They are disinfecting the vehicles in front of us.
19:28We are gonna get completely disinfected here.
19:31I think this is just a disinfection process.
19:35After that, we have to go ahead and check our passports.
19:40This is gonna take a whole day.
19:46Oh!
19:49It's done. We have been disinfected.
20:02Hello.
20:03Hello.
20:04Number? Machine number?
20:06Machine number is...
20:08Can I go?
20:12Can I pay in Bulgarian?
20:14Euro?
20:15At the moment, I don't have but it's...
20:19Okay, go.
20:28Hello.
20:29Hello.
20:30Hello.
20:31Hello.
20:32Hello.
20:33Hello.
20:34Hello.
20:35Hello.
20:37They are checking the temperature here.
20:44There were 3 Euros for disinfection.
20:49I am entering the country and I have kept the money in another Euro.
20:56Now I have to figure out where to go.
20:59This is a duty free shop. What can I do in duty free?
21:03They have just opened one.
21:07But there was a lot of crowd at the back.
21:10I think they were taking more time for disinfection.
21:32He didn't ask me to remove the helmet.
21:54He called me.
22:03Is this the green card?
22:04Sorry?
22:05Is this the green card?
22:07Green card?
22:08Camera?
22:09Yeah.
22:10So this is done.
22:11And now...
22:13Baggage control.
22:14He said.
22:15I don't know what is baggage control.
22:17But I think he is saying custom control.
22:29Baggage control. Okay.
22:46So they didn't control my baggage.
22:48They just made me enjoy.
22:50Otherwise it would have taken time here as well.
22:54Yeah.
22:55Turkey.
22:56Turkey.
22:58Finally I have reached.
23:00Well done Rangeeli.
23:04It's a good thing that Alhamdulillah it's not closed yet.
23:07Let's get this done as well.
23:09I have to book a hotel here.
23:15And then...
23:16I'll give it a night's rest.
23:18So now I have used my internet.
23:20The sim in Europe.
23:22Because Bulgaria was getting a signal.
23:24And I have booked my hotel.
23:27It's 24 km from here.
23:3020 minutes from here.
23:38So finally we are here.
23:40I have booked my hotel.
23:42I have booked my hotel.
23:44I have booked my hotel.
23:47So finally we are inside Turkey.
23:53There are a lot of checks here.
23:54There's another one here.
23:55What are they doing?
24:00May Allah protect them from us.
24:10Let's take off this jacket.
24:13So that I can catch my breath.
24:39I have reached the hotel.
24:43The motorcycle guys are already there.
24:45So let's go and stand near them.
24:52Yes.
24:54Yes Rangeeli.
24:58It's closed now.
25:00I made a mistake by not taking it out of the gear.
25:09Yes. Finally we are here.
25:13Finally we are here.
25:23I have just come to eat.
25:25I am very tired today.
25:27That's why I have come to the first restaurant right next to my hotel.
25:30And I have asked that guy to cook the best thing in the menu for me.
25:36And today we will have a delicious burger.
25:39Because I have got Halal meat after a long time.
25:42We will eat it and then go back to the room and rest.
25:57We have covered the total distance today.
25:59Almost 400 km.
26:01Which took me 6.5 to 7 hours.
26:05I didn't take any breaks on the way.
26:07Except for flying the drone twice and refueling.
26:10My back is still aching.
26:13But I am gonna rest now and explore the city of Ederne tomorrow.
26:18It's a very beautiful city.
26:20You will get more details about it in the next vlog.
26:24It's right next to the Bulgarian and Greek border.
26:26I didn't travel much today.
26:28Tomorrow I will go to Istanbul.
26:30I will show my bike to the BMW dealer and see what he says about it.
26:34You will get more information about that in the next vlog.
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26:48Allah Hafiz.