After a 6-hours bus, we arrived in Kutaisi, 3rd biggest city of Georgia. It was pouring rain. We walked a bit through the city, went in the market, had a look at the famous church and went back to our hostel, totally soaked.

While checking our options to go to Azerbaïdjan, we realised that the land border was closed. Fuck... How could we miss that? I went back on the French embassy website, nothing was written on the "entry" part. After further reading, I realised it was written in the "last minute" part... -_-.

That changed a lot our plan... We had to check out other options, and act fast.

Option A: fly to Baku, and hope that we could go to the ferry to Kazakhstan. But if the land borders with Azerbaïdjan are closed, there is a very small chance that the maritime borders are open for tourists...

Option B: fly to Almaty in Kazakhstan. The easiest option, but it did not make any sense in term of trajectory (going that far in the east to go back towards the west then)

Option C: go through Armenia, Iran and Turkmenistan... 2 problems to that: I need a visa to cross the land border to Iran, and visas for this destination takes time, which I don't have... 2nd problem: Turkmenistan is one of the most closed country in the world, having a visa was very complicated... But it could work. And that was an exciting project.

After a quick concertation, we agreed on this last option. Manloi would travel across Armenia by train, cross the Iranian border alone and go to Teheran by bus and hitchhiking, and I would take a flight to Tehran to have an visa on arrival. If everything goes smoothly, we should both be in Tehran in 3 days.