good morning from a rainy taxi in Samsun Turkiye we just checked out of our hotel and
let me tell you something guys that was a bit of a weird experience Hotel was not too great but we
enjoyed looking around and relaxing in Samsung for a few days nonetheless we are now in a taxi on the
way to the otogar or the bus station where we are going to be making our way to Trabzon this is
a place that has been recommended to us now many times to check out and we cannot wait to give you
guys our first impressions hopefully the weather picks up a little bit before we get there but
nonetheless let's go and explore Trabzon all right welcome to Samsun Otogar or Samsun bus station
this is where we're going to be taking the bus to trabzon so let's go we gotta go through security
first and we'll show you guys around as well all right so we're basically just acquiring
some snacks for the bus long journey ahead roughly around six hours on the bus to go so
we're getting ourselves some Börek and also some of this stuff as well which we actually
have never tried interesting nonetheless no it's always tough to get kind of enough
food for a six hour Journey you cannot really plan ahead for that unless you have a kitchen
obviously so usually we kind of depend on the bus station shops yeah true true
yeah long journey ahead but it should be an interesting one we're basically traveling
along the Black Sea so so throughout our journey through Turkiye we have been choosing
Kamil Koc Bus or the company called pamukkale because we figured out that you can kind of book with them online
in advance now obviously you can always just show up at the bus station as well and get your ticket
there and then but some buses are quite full so we usually like to book an advance just to be sure
that we can get a specific bus especially if it's like a six or seven hour Journey you don't want to
be waiting for another two or three hours at the bus station for that bus to show up in case it's
full beforehand so we are always trying to just book it in advance you know the price then and you
know that you're where you're going to sit on the bus and obviously that you're going to be on that
bus that you would like all right so we are on the bus now and I'm amazed every single time we take
a bus because Turkiye is such a large country and we haven't had a single bus yet that was too late
um I don't want to jinx it but um so it is four to ten the bus is supposed to leave at 10 and it
was perfectly on time and this is going to be the situation now for the next six hours yeah
we got a long journey ahead of us but thankfully we have snacks ready to go both of us are really
tired because the hotel that we stayed in here in Samsun wasn't the best we didn't make the best
decision with the hotel but we're definitely going to be having a nap on the bus I think
100 I think I'm just gonna pass out immediately we are at our very first stop right now
um we have half an hour break somewhere in the middle of nowhere
um I believe we are in between Urdu and Samsun I'm not too sure what the city is called
that we are at right now but um yeah it seems to be somewhere in the countryside it's super
cold here we got off the bus and I thought I was going to freeze immediately um Luke is already
wearing kind of three shirts today I'm just wearing one hoodie so I'm a little bit cold did
you find something to eat can't go wrong with some Haribo always good always good German
quality products you know Hans Riegel Bonn it's from Germany only 50 Lira for an Atatürk Plate it's a nice one
76 Lira for I think two bags of Haribo two Mentos uh some Red Bull and I don't know what
else to Luke at what else did you get you got a Red Bull and two Haribo can't open it
Red Bull too Haribo two Mentos 76 Lira I cannot complain but I would like to see if
we can get a çay or something here because it's because it is pretty cold at the moment
ready to go
Where are you staying? Trabzon? Trabzon, yes.
You drove from Ankara? No, Antalia. Antalia? That's so much further than Ankara!
It's a very long way
you must be very tired so we made a quick little pit stop and we also drove through a city on the
Black Sea that goes that goes by their name ordu really luscious and green and I think the
reason why it's so luscious and green around the northern part of turkey in the Black Sea region is
because it quite literally hasn't stopped raining now for around three hours we've been on the bus
for quite some time we have around another hour and a half to go and it has not stopped
it's absolutely pummeling rain and it's been doing this same rate of rainfall now for as I
said roughly around three hours it's crazy uh I don't know like when we're going to arrive
and trabzon and the hotel is I think around like 500 600 meters by foot or so
um but we will have to walk through the rain with our backpacks and no raincoat
so uh that's going to be fun I think yeah it's been a big change for us we went or
we came from the southern coast of turkey where the Sun was shining 24 7. and now we
have this but nonetheless we'll catch up with you guys when we arrive in Trabzon
all right you guys we just ran through the rain to get to our hotel but thank God we arrived I'm
sorry for not filming the part but it was just raining way way too much but we can show you
around our beautiful hotel here in trabzon so you come in and you have this nice large
room it's so much better than I expected to be honest it looks really nice very very clean
um in our last place in Samsun I don't know if you if Luke already talked about it at the
beginning of the video but we weren't so lucky with the hotel so this time we are so so happy
to be in a perfectly clean and nice place um but trabzon is very very rainy as you can see
The View oh there in the distance you can actually see the sea the Black Sea
over there in the distance and our hotel is basically located
um kind of in the middle of industrial Zone where a lot of car garages are but we already
walked while walking through the city in the rain we saw that there's lots of restaurants
and bars so we might go to get something to eat because we haven't really had anything substance
substance substantial substantial yet we only had kind of like cookies and like little bits
and pieces of candy here and there as you saw so we definitely need something to eat that's
coming up to 4 P.M in the day uh yeah so let's go and check out Trabzon maybe a little bit by the
way I'll give you guys a little bit of a quick tour hello of the bathroom it's pretty simple
you've got the toilet there you've got the shower toilet please don't use it
toilet but uh yeah it's um pretty straightforward it is actually a really nice place for the money
and we are paying around 27 Euro a night for this place and it is right in the center of
trabzon we're actually very very close as well to one of the large shopping centers so we're
definitely gonna go and grab a quick bite to eat bring you guys along with us and yeah this is
not going to be our only trabzon video by the way obviously because we just arrived so we're
going to be filming here over the next few days and we will bring you a first impressions video
where we basically explore the entire city as well so expect that video to come after this
one which will be tomorrow tomorrow is Sunday so the next video from trabzon will be on Thursday
um so if you haven't already click that notification Bell and the red subscribe
button so you know when we are posting our next video so because the weather was not
so nice let's say like that we decided to come to a local mall to try and search for
some food and we just found the funniest restaurant that there is
yeah I'm not going to read out the name of this restaurant for obvious reasons because we would
probably get demonetized if we would say something like that online but yeah they have usually when
you go to malls here they have a lot of the normal Western Restaurants and Western shops such as like
Starbucks McDonald's Burger King Arby's and so on and you also have lots and loads of Turkiye
specific shops and restaurants which are all to be honest very very good we haven't had a bad
experience yet we for example for clothing like to go to LC Waikiki or de facto and for food at
the moment yeah we're trying to find a restaurant where we can have something obviously you have
things like KFC pide places döner places I don't know what do you feel like eating today
I think we got to keep it Turkish for sure but I don't know a lot of them are
like American fast food restaurants like KFC and Burger King and stuff
like that but I think we might keep it like more on the Turkish side I might
go for like an iskender or a döner or something like that I don't know
we will see what we are going to eat so we decided to make a quick little pit stop in
tavada tavok was the name of the restaurant and it does like a combination of chicken pasta and
salad and that seems to be a little bit of like a popular combination here in Turkiye a lot of
restaurants seem to sell that type of food here so we decided to give it a try and it was very
tasty came to a total for the two main dishes and two drinks of just over 200 Turkish lira
and it filled us up definitely feeling much better now and it also has finally stopped
right training so we cannot wait because the weather for the rest of this week is
supposed to be very nice supposed to pick up big time the Sun is going to be coming out
and we're very excited to check out trabzon itself but for now we're gonna head back to
our hotel my name is Luke my name is Naomi we are the two mad explorers and this is your reminder
to keep exploring I will see you guys in the next adventure thanks for watching bye bye