Uzbekistan!
Currency here is worthless and our pizza meal (yeah, actually going to an italian restaurant in uzbekistan!) came to $15 each, which was the equivalent of a whole table with piles full of Uzbek Sum.
We convoyed from the border with streching cred and the gobi ambulance (google them to see their sites), found a hotel and texted a load of other teams including the allegro, spank the money in their dodgy volvo, the highly painted SJ and anotherr micra team.
Taking a rest day here today to relax as the past 2 weeks have been pretty hectic!
Turkmenistan was very hot and dusty. Drove through a sandstorm. Stretching cred needed to clean their air filter half way through.
Iran was awesome and the people were really friendly - everyone would wave and beep at us on the road as it is so rare to see a foreign car. Got stopped once at an army checkpoint and had to show passports but no big deal.
Turkey was a long haul, 1300 miles in a single country! Camped at a beach campsite one night and stunned the guy in the shop by buying 30 bottles of beer!