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Let’s bring Sauna into Africa

joulukuuta 2019 - helmikuuta 2021
South Africa to Germany – at least a try. Lue lisää
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  • Uganda
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  • Let’s bring Sauna into Africa

    Chobe flood plains

    23. helmikuuta 2020, Botswana ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C

    Northern part of Chobe national park. Plenty of animals moving around freely everywhere. The tracks run anlong an elevated slope and give a wonderful scenic view over the Chobe river, being the border to Namibia's Caprivi Strip at the same time. Namibia's side of the river is farm land and you see hippos accompanied by cows.

    Giraffes are my favourites as they are the most relaxed of all and soooo damn beautiful!! And all these impalas ... thousands! You can push them away with your car. Then you open a window and they come close out of curiosity. The thing is, that most animals don't recognize humans as long as we stay in cars, even not with open windows. And they don't fear cars because here evolution didn't give them any reason. It all gets totally different once you get out of the car, which is mostly forbidden for a good reason. Suddenly all run away in hectic. A lioness hidden in the bush just 10 m next to the track looks very calm. Yeah, as long as "you are just a car to her". Beware of peeing in the bush! But in general elephants dominate the bush and a day before we got mock-charged again shortly after turning into a side road. You just don't see them in the bush while they are directly next to you :-\    Lue lisää

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    Pennertaxi ...

    24. helmikuuta 2020, Botswana ⋅ 🌧 20 °C

    ... oder: "Fuck, was für ein ereignisreicher Tag!"

    Great plans we all have this morning: At 7 a.m. the white boys want to visit a Toyota workshop because in Chobe they crushed their Hilux's transmission and it is stuck in 4H (permanent 4-wheel drive without centre differential) which means that they should not drive on grippy surfaces - like on tarmac - at all. And I want to get my hand brake readjusted and my air condition fixed. So, the problem just is that the whole night and morning the rain pours like hell and nobody can get out of any roof tent or in-car bed. Stop having great plans, they exist solely for your disappointment.

    But somehow miracles still happen even though I am not Jesus: The rain stops for a while and before noon the boys have their transmission fixed, I have my hand brake re-tensioned and my air con refilled. With the latter I can open the gates to inverse hell again, yay! This all thanks to a network of greatly talented mechanics, especially to Offias and Laurence! In Kasane we trust.

    At noon we cross the Zambezi and head to Victoria Falls in Livingstone. "But how?" is the question! The boys want to avoid struggles with importing their Namibian-rented car into Zambia and want to turn back to Namibia anyway. So ... I just load all four of them onto my rear bed and off we go over the border!!    Lue lisää

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    Vic Falls

    24. helmikuuta 2020, Sambia ⋅ 🌧 22 °C

    The border procedure itself is a killer and steals half of the boys' precious day because after visiting the Falls they have to be back at the border again by 6 p.m. But my car's papers take too much time and "Oh, it's lunch time!" paralyses the whole border post.

    At 3:45 we arrive at the Falls and at 4:15 they jump into a taxi back to the border, back to Kasane. Just me and Daniel again :-( :-)    Lue lisää

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  • Let’s bring Sauna into Africa

    The underestimated puddle of mud

    25. helmikuuta 2020, Sambia ⋅ 🌧 21 °C

    On our way to Lusaka where I will be dropping Daniel at the airport we make a stop in Lochinvar National Park. Very strange place.

    First of all the secondary roads in Zambia seem to be the worst of the worst. Off the main road we move at just 25 km/h in average for two hours! Car-sized potholes, filled with water. River crossings. In general, starting from Livingstone everything is flooded. And everything is crowded with people! Everywhere, even in the remotest spots someone is riding a bicycle or strolling alongside the "road". Wtf? Apparently someone exchanged impalas for people here.

    We reach the park's entrance gate after 6 p.m. and are advised to continue and to register the next day. A park once founded by WWF but totally run-down. We rush north over the unrushable mud road and ... discover a newly established gypsum mine in the middle of the national park. We ask and they answer: "Yes, not long ago all animals moved further north-west, so we were allowed to open this mine here.". Jaja, is klar.

    Dark falls and suddenly zombie-like creatures appear along the muddy path in the night. One more. Many more. A truck next to the road. Wtf 2.0? For six (!) hours some 20 people (they call themselves scouts) are stuck in the trench with a truckload of beer and groceries (already unloaded). Finally! My first recovery of the whole trip! The truck's rear differential housing is blocking on the trench's ridge and has to be freed over and over again. They push, I pull with my tiny 4x4. After 1-1.5 hours we manage to get the truck out of the trench and my equipment is brutally worn. The kinematic bungee rope did a good job and I hope my transmission and clutch survived.

    At around 9 p.m. we reach Chunga campsite. There is nothing here but still rangers hang out and build us a fire. The next morning we have baked beans, Daniel chases some birds away from the lagoon and we do a short hike to some hot springs because the road is not drivable. We nearly got stuck in the mud but somehow managed to reverse out without having had the need to pray. The hot springs feature hot water with boiled cockroaches, crispy frogs as well as well-done little turtles.    Lue lisää

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  • Let’s bring Sauna into Africa

    Bye Bye

    27. helmikuuta 2020, Sambia ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

    Since Wednesday evening (26th) I stay here at Vincent's loving family in Chilenje. Checked in with Daniel through Airbnb but it's definitely more a CouchSurfing place! Vincent has a bar and 5 kids. The perfect place to chill out!

    Daniel leaves back to Germany on 28th and I fix some broken brackets around my roof rack: My recovery tracks are mounted vertically again.

    Most national parks and locations around Zambia are "virtually impossible" to be accessed during the wet season. I will have to see where I can get through. There are supposed to be trillions of waterfalls in this country. Today is the day to continue!    Lue lisää

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    Michi the Baptist farmer

    3. maaliskuuta 2020, Sambia ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    I wake up at 0630 at the Kalwa farm near Serenje to be greeted by two local pastors. They officialy allow camping here on the grass lawn in front of an old house for the price of an apple. In the ancient times of Mr. Livingstone this place was established by a missioner and is taken care of by the Baptist church now. The previous farm leader, a North American, passed away a few years ago and since then the premises are becoming "wild". The church is apparently missing a willing hand for the farm management and now these two friendly souls are asking if I would be interested in running this place or if I knew anybody who could have an interest. Exciting!

    They had running water before and electricity. There are dams for irrigation and for hydro-power, but the generators broke down. In near distance you see the Samba Hills rising and there are singing birds all over the place. It has a historic touch and is very calm and you have both Luangwa national parks close by. I see some potential :-D    Lue lisää

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  • Let’s bring Sauna into Africa

    Chipota falls

    3. maaliskuuta 2020, Sambia ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    My search of Chipendenzi waterfalls ends up in high-definition offroading because these falls exist in my 1:1.000.000 paper map but do not in any of my digital maps. From the farm I try to get there the hard way. The digital maps feature at least a weird network of dirt paths which I follow in roughly the correct direction. I do not succeed in the first run but my intuition is right! After turning back from a dead end I ask in a village for the way and get accompanied by Victor and Fred who let me return into the dead end and show me a side path which I ignored in the beginning. No signs, no nothing and totally overgrown, but at the end of this hidden path we have some waterfalls! But according to them it's not Chipendenzi river but Chipota river, lol. At least OpenStreetMap will show some new map data soon ;-)Lue lisää

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