(Daniel) We woke up at 6am this morning, so as to get the long drive to Kermon underway early.  The showers in the campsite were not very warm, so it didn’t take long to get me out of there and on the road.  Just before we left, we met a couple of rally drivers who had arrived for a rally which was taking place here today.  So Saumon if you are reading this, Iran does have motorsports!

It didn’t take us long to get back on the main road to Kermon, we stopped for supplies, and pretty soon we were flying along on single lane carriageways again, back up into the mountains, overlooking a huge lake, and then down into desert on the other side. I hate to say it, but I killed three birds on the Desert road, they just kept flying straight. When we stopped the bodies fell off the front and lay on the road emptied of blood by the speed of the impact and the wind and sun.  I felt very guilty!

Rowan made sandwiches as we drove, and after about 500km Gabby took over, she drove a couple of hundred more km into the outskirts of Kermon and I took us in to the town.  The place had a very frontier feel to it, spread out with room for improvement.  We found the hotel which we had earmarked, and checked in after some fierce negotiating.  Then we headed to an internet café to send our messages of love etc before driving on tomorrow into the most dangerous few days of the expedition, the Belugistan desert.

When we returned form the Internet café a couple of Germans were in the hotel, they were returning from overlanding through India and Pakistan, and got chatting to Rowan who was amazed to hear that they had struggled to make 200km per day in the two countries.  I scoffed after seeing their vehicle, a VW camper with 13 inch wheels and slim road tyres, surely on potholed roads this vehicle would have to be averaging 30-40km/h, no wonder they struggled with mileage!  Inside I secretly hoped that we would not be in a similar situation a few days from now! These are the first other overlanders that we have seen on the journey so far.

Distance driven 745kms

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