Gigantic rock arches and needles!
2023年3月23日, サウジアラビア ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
A different era of Rock engravings
2023年3月21日, サウジアラビア ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C
Today we passed a water spring in full desert. This was surely a stop over for caravans on the "incense route" over centuries and so the rock engravings have changed. Accompanying the old cuneiformもっと詳しく
On and on we go!
2023年3月20日, サウジアラビア ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
Deeper and deeper into the sand
2023年3月19日, サウジアラビア
We are driving deeper and deeper into the sand and break the record at one hill where everyone digs themselves in. After hours of digging and using sand tracks to get out, some of us promptly getもっと詳しく
and the desert is calling.....
2023年3月18日, サウジアラビア ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
From the craters, we drove to the North, getting deeper and deeper into the desert again, this time with deep loose sand between huge bizarre sandstone structures formed by millions of years of windもっと詳しく
The land of 140 volcanos
2023年3月15日, サウジアラビア ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
This region is one of 140 volcanos and huge lava fields. The fascinating thing is, they all vary in colour, from black through white and red.
On top of it these last weeks, there have been severalもっと詳しく
The oasis Khaibar
2023年3月14日, サウジアラビア ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
As we travel north, we pass through the oasis Khaibar in a basin of a huge volcanic area with ample water and fertile soils. For thousands of years this has been a stop on the frankincense routeもっと詳しく
Medina; tomb of Mohammed
2023年3月13日, サウジアラビア
Mohammed, born in Mecca, was kicked out when he started preaching a new religion. He fled to Medina on a she camel, and where this camel kneeled down, god told him that this was the place to build theもっと詳しく
And so we fled back into nature
2023年3月12日, サウジアラビア ⋅ 🌙 25 °C
Cities are always stress, here in Saudi all the more, due to the "cruisers" showing off their big engines, exhaust pipes or sound systems around 02:00 in the morning. We were longing for silence andもっと詳しく
Sleepless nights while "cruisers" cruise
2023年3月11日, サウジアラビア ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Having not slept the previous night, in the afternoon, we drove north to the edge of the city on an inlet from the sea in the hope of finding a quite place.
Exactly the opposite happened!
As sunsetもっと詳しく
Duty's done, now follows pleasure, lunch
2023年3月10日, サウジアラビア ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
The whole quarter is smelling of fresh rooti bread and curry. We continue to follow the crowd and end up in a square drinking chai.
Jeddah: midday prayer and the day starts
2023年3月10日, サウジアラビア ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
While strolling through the old city centre, we had the pleasure to participate in the friday midday prayer because it was broadcast via loudspeakers in the area. Hardly had the last thanks to Allahもっと詳しく
Jeddah: multi-culti on the red sea
2023年3月9日, サウジアラビア ⋅ 🌬 31 °C
Jeddah is Saudi Arabias trading port and a melting pot of ethnicities, endlessly long along the red sea.
We arrived on Thursday evening, the beginning of the moslem weekend knowing that this would beもっと詳しく
Ash Shafa-a true Saudi picnic
2023年3月8日, サウジアラビア ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Today we are in Ash Shafa, 2200 meters high, and the place where the Saudi King has his residence when the government moves to Al Ta'if in the summer months.
For hours we watched troops of baboonsもっと詳しく
Today, under the sign of RUBBISH
2023年3月7日, サウジアラビア ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
We are on the way to Jeddah, near Medina and Mecca and it is aparently time to remind us of the reality of the arabian peninsula concerning the topic of rubbish.
As we travelled through huge regionsもっと詳しく
700km to Al Wabah crater
2023年3月7日, サウジアラビア ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
700km through a desert sand storm, that is not an experience to be repeated! Our "Sprinti" was jumping across the road like a feather while sand took over the highway.
When we arrived at the Al Wahbahもっと詳しく
Back to Nature, "Edge of the world"
2023年3月5日, サウジアラビア ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
We fled Riad after a night awake, as Lamborghini and Ferrari raced from one side of the city to the other demonstrating their sound and power, to the escarpment, called "Edge of the world", where theもっと詳しく
Riad, capital of Saudi Arabia
2023年3月3日, サウジアラビア ⋅ 🌙 24 °C
Riad was a disappointment!
8 million people living in the middle of the flat desert, of which a small part is endlessly rich, living in huge palaces and racing around at night in lamborghinis while aもっと詳しく
Found it! Al Asfar lake
2023年3月1日, サウジアラビア ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Yesterday, we ended up in the salty mud, so today we retraced our tracks and tried a new route, and found the place we were looking for, a small dune bordering on the lake and slowly advancing intoもっと詳しく
Back in Saudi, looking for Al Asfar lake
2023年3月1日, サウジアラビア ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Today, we crossed the border into Saudia Arabia with the typical border problems of no one knowing what is really needed. We then headed off into the desert, looking for Al Asfar Lake near Hofuf.もっと詳しく
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
2023年2月27日, アラブ首長国連邦 ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
What a beautiful building, even if it is the biggest in the world!
Full of aesthetic materials from all countries of the world and carried out with incredible craftsmanship.
All designs are done withもっと詳しく
Abu Dhabi, so much more relaxed
2023年2月26日, アラブ首長国連邦 ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
After Dubai, Abu Dhabi seemed very relaxed and quite empty with a beautiful "cornische" along the water front.
To spend the night, we drove out to one of the many islands thinking it would be quiteもっと詳しく
Dubai Fountain, Burj Khalifa
2023年2月24日, アラブ首長国連邦
We then moved on to the "Dubai Mall", a shopping mall the size of a small city and of course the biggest in the world. Everything shining in marble, so clean you could eat from the floor with anもっと詳しく
"The frame"
2023年2月24日, アラブ首長国連邦 ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
In a totally spaced-out state we then went up "The Frame", literally a 150m high picture frame through which the Sheikh Rashid ibn Saeed Al Maktoum, could look from the old Dubai to the new Dubaiもっと詳しく
Dubai, land of Illusion
2023年2月24日, サウジアラビア ⋅ 🌙 27 °C
Time to open our hearts for the craziness of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, both swimming in oil money with especially Dubai known for having completely lost contact to the ground.
With a small boat trip onもっと詳しく
Back to Khasab, as the hornets shoot by
2023年2月23日, オマーン ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Today, we return to Khassab.
As we motor along, suddenly they appear again on the horizon, the hornets, the smugglers from Iran. (Approx 100-150 speedboats per day). This time, they pass real close,もっと詳しく




































































































































































































































































































































































































































