Today we had to wait for someone to handle the registration, as our stay was longer than three days.
So we had breakfast at 9:00 a.m. and, after receiving our papers, were finally able to drive to the Kow-Ata Cave with its warm water.
There are stairs leading down, but getting into the water is difficult because of the sharp stones. Aside from the warm temperature, the water, with its foam, didn’t seem particularly inviting because everything that went in stays there (pigeons flew around, cats roamed about). Guljan told us that the water was supposedly used to heal soldiers’ wounds in old days.
Afterward, we drove on to the mountain village of Nokhur. Guljan showed us a man selling various types of tea next to a thousand-year-old plane tree.
She then bought pomegranates and two kinds of melons, and we went into a restaurant to eat them inside (it was cold enough to prefer that). The people there also cook for charity, so we were able to leave the remaining (large) melons with them without any problem.
After lunch, it was still a long drive to Turkmenabashi, where we arrived at 9:00 p.m., had dinner, and went to our hotel.