Goris - Kajaran

Goris - Davit Bek 42 km

Davit Bek - Kajaran 55 km

From Goris, we started going down into the vorotan canyon, the landscape were amazing and we did 15km without effort. At the end of the downhill, we saw what awaited us: the laces of the road going up on the other side of the canyon, climbing straight from 700m to 1700m! The road follows a small corridor between the two parts of Azerbaijan and for this reason can't go around the mountains, so it goes a lot uphill and a lot downhill , but never flat. Actually that day, we were crossing every 100m the border and back, but only officially, as this part of Azerbaijan is controlled by Armenia for a long time.

During the climb, Kim didn't wanted to use his leg too much, which is still not ok. So he tried to grab the back Of the trucks. Unfortunately, he only managed it once. It is a bit like surfing, you need to look in advance to see the slower trucks coming , get yourself at the right spot where the truck won't be too fast, start cycling at the right moment and then grab! And then stay as long as you can. But all the trucks were going the other direction , except maybe 10, from which only two were going slowly enough. So at the end, it just rest his leg for 100m!

We found a nice spot to camp after the main pass, along a small river and enjoyed the warm, Moritz even took a bath in the river!

The next morning was the opposite , it was raining and really cold, so it was not really cool to enjoy the downhill that we earned from the day before. We had lunch in Kapan and then Kim took a cab to avoid the 1000m climb under the rain to the city of kajaran, in order to rest his leg. Leila and Moritz cycled under heavy rain first and then under snow for the last part. It is really incredible, yesterday it was 25 degrees at 1500m, and today it was snowing!