 Oliver gamblin, that's me Thank you. We just want to fly the drone, but our drone is a little bit broken here. Good as do Flight successful Good morning guys. Welcome back to our Guinness World Record attempt to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by Motorcycle. Where's bumblebee? Good morning bumblebee. Is bumblebee still there? Yeah, I think so. We're here at the Kaban Reservoir in Turkey And I'm not feeling very well this morning. I have a blocked nose. I have a sore throat. I slept super bad Nearly dead on the verge of death. I Also thought it would be quite peaceful But the ferry continued to run all hours, but every now and again I still woke up because of this noise of the ferry and the lights from it and It's about that But we can't stay here overlooking this beautiful reservoir all day, so we better hit the road So let me show you guys where we're heading. So we are here and today We're heading to the very south of Turkey past in Lazig and Malatya to visit this place here a 2000 year old ancient tomb on the top of a mountain called Mount Nemrut Yes, super exciting day ahead We have just a short ride to the ferry is literally just down there, but then it's about three hours to Mount Nemrut We're still to pack up everything and it's already 7 30, so better hit the road. Let's go Well, I can tell you something it ain't cold today It's always the hard bit isn't it getting on all your gear and starting to sweat Yeah, hopefully we can just ride straight on and go Okay, this way was a little bit dodgy here Yeah, in land Yeah, wow, it's 27 degrees already 27 degrees already Very good my love. Thank you You know, I've had a bit of practice Wow Stunning location. Yeah, it's a crazy We can still make it on the ferry. Oh, wow. Yeah, they are actually loading the cars right now. Yeah Oh, just for our safe. I don't know. Let's see if there is a space. Hello. It's okay Yeah, okay Apparently it's all right. Okay, but I've got to turn around. Okay. Wait, I will maybe jump off Okay Okay Just straight Cool Hello, it's a 20. Okay Thank you Cool views of this like island castle over there Wow, and the water is just so calm. There are no clouds today It's really like dreamier. It's a dreamy morning So I looked it up and this castle is called Pertek castle And of course, it wasn't in the middle of a reservoir originally. It was actually Looking over the river valley But this reservoir was made long after the castle was built Otherwise, it'd be a bit pointless putting a castle on top of a small island in the middle of a lake This ferry was actually really quick and really cheap. It was under one pound So we paid 20 liras a nice camp a nice ferry ride Awesome, but you've just got to think how did the ferry get here? This is not connected to like the ocean or anything. Okay, do you think like they must have bought it on a truck? But this ferry carries 30 trucks. So how can a truck carry the ferry? It's true. How did it get here? Maybe it has some wheels underneath it. It can be a car and a ferry There's like a single track road coming out on both sides of the reservoir and that's the only road in crazy stuff Hello, how are you from England and Germany England and Germany Germany, England Goodbye. Thank you. Oh, wait a minute wait for this guy. Yep. Now it's me Wait, wait, wait, wait. He wants to go as well. He wants to go as well. Let him go and now Oh It's always a little bit of a challenge, but okay, all of our fans waiting for us on the other side All our Turkish fans. Yes. Yes. Yes. Hello Busy busy on the side here didn't really expect that but anyway, it was a cool place to spend the night for sure Oh, sure. I mean look at it. Oh It looks so incredible Incredible. Yeah, and although I had a pretty bad night, and I'm a little bit sick It was nice to wake up to that view when we came out the tent this morning. I tell you Yeah, that was a nice nice morning coffee a healing morning coffee Oh Right all filled up with water And we had a tea a Nice sugary Turkish tea. Oh, I think we're coming up over the top of the pass. Oh Yes, look at this. I don't want to go too close to the edge. No nice Mountains mountains mountains. Hey, definitely some nice mountain views. Yeah, I love this like Purple color with yellow. I mean, this is so fashion This is some fashionable mountains in Turkey. Hey, this is where we just came from back down in the valley that way And then this is where we're going into the mountains that way. Nice mountain ride. Hey, amazing Yes, and the road is so good as well. So actually I can really look around and enjoy myself a lot On amazing snack selection that we picked up yesterday Got some awesome bread and cheese, of course Got some pizza crackers Got some chocolate biscuits Got some peanuts And the best part of all we've got an awesome view Got a super cool overlanding rig in front of us They've even got an air-conditioning unit on the back. Look at that And they're from Germany So we've just gone all the way to the bottom of this valley here And now we're climbing all the way back up the other side for some crazy big valleys here Yeah, so many switchbacks. Wow. Yeah, we came from basically right over there on the opposite side. Wow, look at this Riverbed. Hey, it's completely dry now. Yeah Yeah, these ancient statues better be worth it I just don't know why they had to put them all the way at the top of a mountain Who knows? Well, this place is really in the middle of nowhere. Hey, yeah, totally sort of turned into a semi gravel road It's still pretty good though. It's not too gravelier Luckily. Yeah, we still got like 13 miles down here to go to get to Mount Nemrut, but it's definitely worth a visit even just for the road to get there. Yes, it has been a beautiful ride Absolutely beautiful so far Well, we're really climbing high up now. Look at this. It's absolutely insane really really insane how many switchbacks and How steep partially it is. Wow. I mean the gravel is really not bad But I just don't trust gravel on the road anymore, you know, I'm so traumatized from Argentina, Mongolia Well, there it is. We've arrived Mount Nemrut just over there like a just about see the statues just near the summit. Yeah It's still a little bit further up even Yeah, we've got to find out if we can actually Ride up there or not. Yeah, there is actually a barrier. Okay Blocking you. Yeah. Okay, let's check it out. Hey Yeah, it's a giant overlanding rig from France crazy Not bad Okay a few moments later Yep, okay. Also, we just bought our Tickets for entry and it was 240 lira per person, which is about I think eight pounds or so Yeah, it's not bad. Not not a bad price. Yeah, and also Thank God, they told us we didn't have to walk all the way up to the top. We we can ride bumblebee to the top Which is great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Go slow. Yes Yeah, I mean the switchbacks coming up at the top look really crazy. Oh my lord. Oh my god Here we go Nemrut dagi. That's Mount Nemrut in Turkish Wow, this location here is just mind-blowing absolutely Crazy, it is absolutely crazy. Whoa That's kind of the cool thing about going to see some points of interest on this journey It's like why else would you ever come all the way up here? Exactly. Yeah, but I'm really glad we're here. Look at this Yeah, spectacular Got some switchbacks starting now All by goodness Yeah, I think we have to walk this last bit Where are you guys from? Belgium The bike is from Belgium. Okay, and you? From Italy and my wife from Ecuador. Oh cool Nice to meet you guys. New from where are you? England and Germany And the bike from England. Bye bumblebee Bye bumblebee See you in the bed. My lord. Look at this place Look at the view around it is Mind-blowing here. Absolutely mind-blowing. So we've changed to our Casual socks and sandals funny looking outfit You got to go for fashion or you got to go for something practical. All right And uh, luckily I go for both. Anyway, it's just a short walk actually up here and then We can see it very close From up here crazy So this is Mount Nemrut and behind me is the ancient tomb of king Antiochus the first of Comagene These super impressive statues behind me were built in 62 bc So more than 2000 years ago and it depicts the king himself sitting in the center Flanked by various greek and iranian gods including Zeus and Hera You might notice that actually all of these statues are missing their heads Well archaeologists theorize that that was due to a thing called iconoclasm So the purposeful destruction of ancient deities to basically erase the old beliefs and replace it with newer beliefs So the heads have actually been laid out in front of the statues But originally those heads would have been on top of the statues and they've been purposely left here by archaeologists And arranged in a way so you can see exactly what heads would have gone with which bodies Pretty crazy, eh? Pretty crazy pretty crazy world. We're living in Wow, what a crazy construction here and to think that this Is 2000 years old And it's on top of a crazy mountain that was hard for even us to get to in modern times I can't imagine how difficult it must have been to get here 2000 years ago Let alone to build such massive statues How? I wish they would have had video cameras within themselves Seriously, I have no idea how people managed to do this. Yeah back then it was just like the king was just like Yep, put it on top of the mountain the most difficult mountain to get to please. Yep But king that's like a super remote and really high and the statues you've ordered are massive Does it look like I care it's my tomb and I do what I want king Antioch the first. Yeah, you made something crazy here Actually, it's really interesting because it's widely accepted that this is the mausoleum of king Antioch the first And yet they've never found his tomb But they're pretty sure that the center figure is depicting him interesting as well how he puts himself Above all of the gods even Zeus this guy had a bit of an ego issue if you ask me to be honest But be on top of the mountain above all the gods Anyway, he did something cool and it's still here So we've just made our way over to the other side of the mountain and here there's even more heads Look at this. So apparently this one here is Zeus Absolutely amazing So from the side here We can get a really good view of the holes that are in each of the pieces of the statues And these holes would have been used to actually transport them into their places So they would have stuck sticks in those holes and then carried them or maybe dragged them into position So now we've got three Germans all here together. This is great Is this a Mercedes? Beautiful Mercedes overlanding rig and what bike is that? A BMW 800 Cool nice to meet you guys All right, awesome Beautiful visit. Yeah, and there's surprisingly like quite a lot of overlanding Adventurers coming up here as well. Yeah seems like the place where All of the travelers converge up on the top of the mountain Yeah, it's true. Oh geez. Yep. I forgot about the fact we've got to get down this road. Yeah So yeah, beautiful visit. What a place. What a place. It has the perfect combination of like location and history I mean, look at this place. It's absolutely such a scenic ride and then add on top of that a 2000 year old tomb on top That's absolutely crazy. And this is a crazy road though. That is a crazy road Nice and easy nice and slow Very good my love Yeah, but I mean this guy was crazy who like said oh, I want this for my grave, you know Well, thank god he did. Otherwise, there wouldn't be amazing places like that to see for us today So anyway, we're heading now for the town of Malatya Which I think is around an hour and a half away. So basically We've got a long way down to go. So let's make our way down this mountain Yeah There's a turtle here in the road A massive turtle Wow, cool. I think we should help it cross the road. Hey, I think he's heading this way Okay, buddy. We're gonna put you in the right place Wow, it's quite big. It's quite heavy Wow, what an amazing creature. I reckon I'll put him Because he'll probably find it hard over these rocks Here on the grass Here Here, perfect. There you go. Beautiful So it's basically sunset now and we've just arrived in Malatya So our first stop here is going to be to find something to eat because I am starving And we don't have any accommodation books just yet Yeah, so we have to google a little bit and see what's available We can brainstorm over a dinner Yeah, or a durum Or a durum Yes, found a kebab shop. Oh, yeah, we're hungry Maybe a durum But which one? What is this one? This is chikuf there What is chikuf there? George's special food Yeah, thank you. Thank you If you want, you can sit in our salon and we can mix all the meats for you The special adana Okay Whoa This one is is beef or cow cow. Okay. Okay. Okay, that one. That one. Yeah Everything looks good. Okay, we can do one chicken and one the other one. Thank you so much. Awesome. Cool At a kitchen tour. Yeah Amazing five minutes later Yeah Happy Look at that That's a beefy kebab Can you recommend a cheap hotel at home? Yeah, I can The hotels are most of the men Broken up Yeah, broken When was the earthquake happened? It was eight months ago Yes Thank you so much for everything. Yeah Thank you Okay. Bye. Bye. Bye Wow, he was telling us about The massive damage that this earthquake in February did to the town When we rode in we could see houses broken like apartment blocks like just broken Yeah, he said 7.2 on the Richter scale 55,000 people died. He says that the town is still recovering from Trying to rebuild everything Yeah Apparently this is the reason as well that the prices of accommodation are so high at the moment Like the cheapest place we could find now on Google is 35 pounds This place is two miles away five minutes. Well, you can see here. Look at this all of this This is still from the earthquake eight months ago Look how destroyed this whole place is Wow, is there really supposed to be the hotel right here? It's so mad Yeah, I think What this place? I guess so Yeah, okay, let me jump off and have a look What was the name of the hotel? Malatya Roya, okay Okay, let's check it out. Well, you can see half of these buildings are completely destroyed and abandoned Insane, absolutely insane. Yeah, it's really so much damage here. So much damage This is a too nice a hotel for us. I'm afraid Definitely a hundred percent Okay, so we're gonna try this hotel here Aksak hotel See what the prices are here So this hotel is 44 pounds But it's literally the cheapest hotel that we can find anywhere. So I think we're just gonna have to go for it It'd be really nice though 44 pounds. I know it's really expensive and normally I don't like it, but five star baby breakfast included Breakfast included. Whoa, is this what 44 pounds gets you? Your own golden trolley Thank you Here we go Whoa, look what we get big double bed extra single It's pretty good. Hey 10 stars 10 stars. What kind of view have we got? Oh, yes city view So we made it and I'm exhausted and still sick by the way Yeah, so we just jump into bed now and get a good rest and that's it from us today We hope you enjoyed the video if so, please give us a thumbs up Subscribe to the channel share the video with your friends and family comment below and we will see you next time