Leaving Brauni
2019年12月14日, ドイツ ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
Wanted to ship my tiny little Land Cruiser 120 already in November to have it at hand when flying to South Africa in mid December with Franziska. Plans never work out as expected. I will be droppingもっと詳しく
Farewell
2019年12月16日, ドイツ ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Kurz und knackig: 14th dinner at mom's, 15th at dad's. 16th in the morning last fitments around Münster with directly following car dispatching in the harbour of Bremerhaven where I visit Kono atもっと詳しく
Joining Franziska
2019年12月17日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
Dubai airport
2019年12月17日, アラブ首長国連邦 ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Use your brain and imagine what someone would write here.
Arriving and recuperating
2019年12月18日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Acclimatizing in Smith's Cottage, Durban, during the first three days after picking up our rented Polo Vivo directly from the airport. All the thanks for total stresslessness go to Franzi whoもっと詳しく
Durban impressions
2019年12月19日, 南アフリカ
Wandering around Durban's beach promenade, we notice a lot of run-down ex-surfer boys asking for money. The shopping malls seem to be overcrowded with local people, which for us Europeans is a bitもっと詳しく
In search of the Giant Cup
2019年12月21日〜27日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Our first action item leads us deep into the Drakensberg mountains where we escape civilization from December 21st to 25th and stroll around deserted paths, basically following the Giant Cup Trail.もっと詳しく
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At the foot of Garden Castle you see a handful of free-standing oaks. This is where the Winterhoek huts are waiting for us =)
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Activate the standard map with relief for better impression of the topography.
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At Swiman Hut we are surprised by a South African family coming here for a 5-day stay over Christmas. They are super-friendly and enrich our simple pasta dinner with ciders and precious other deliciousnesses =)
Of scorpions, snakes and Schleiereulchen
2019年12月23日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
While watching a beautiful snake from a safe, elevated distance we are in turn being watched by a white bird of prey: the common barn owl (Tyto alba), also inhabiting European realms.
Later I willもっと詳しく
South via Queenstown and Hogsback
2019年12月28日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
The following two days of our road trip lead us along scenic mountains, a night in Queenstown with great food and through a surreal bathtub at the edge of a cliff in Hogsback.
Addo Elephant National Park
2019年12月29日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Couldn't find Timon.
Apocalyptic snail attac
2019年12月30日, 南アフリカ ⋅ 🌧 19 °C
In Afrikaans there is nothing like "Schön mal den Rüssel reinhalten und dinieren".
Not planning anything is the best plan
2019年12月31日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Wonderful remote camping spot at Outeniqua Trout Lodge, suddenly appearing out of nowhere after a lot of rain and muddy gravel roads. Treating our Polo like a full-grown overlanding vehicle is theもっと詳しく
"Rivers" without rivers
2020年1月1日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Six years of serious drought render place names like "... river camp" pretty funny ...
Witsand
2020年1月1日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Dunes are supposed to be very delicate. Don't you dare touch them!
Rushing through dryland to find a camp
2020年1月1日〜2日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
After letting ourselves go too much in Witsand, it's getting late. My plan to cross the Breede River to the west unfortunately falls through as the ferry at Malagas Pont doesn't seem to be runningもっと詳しく
Franschhoek
2020年1月4日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Around Ina's and Werner's wedding party!
Guardians of the fynbos
2020年1月6日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
"Fynbos (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈfəinbɔs], lit. 'fine bush') is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces [..] Fynbos isもっと詳しく
West Coast National Park
2020年1月7日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
When coming here we yet didn't know that birdwatching would become our main travel passions in future ...
Found penguins
2020年1月9日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Hopping around Cape Town, dancing with penguins and waiting for my car to arrive on container ship Santa Clara from far away Germany :D
Swapping lovely Franzi for Wurstdaniel
2020年1月11日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
We did around 3.330 km in our rented VW Polo Vivo! Now it's time for a new chapter ...
Because we can
2020年1月12日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Addicted to wine
2020年1月13日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 34 °C
Unpacking the treasure from Germany ...
2020年1月14日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Sitting, waiting (and sleeping) inside SACD's huge cargo hall while my car is beeing administratively processed by local customs. The container arrived in 11th but my carnet de passages arrived justもっと詳しく
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Tyre deflation in order to fit the fully packed J12 with its 2.26 m into a 20" container of 2.30 m inner height :D
Finally!
2020年1月15日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Nope.
2020年1月17日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
:-( :-( :-(
Left the car yesterday for window tinting and diesel injector checking. Both is quite affordable here and the latter even conducted through a Bosch Diesel Service with superb staff! Todayもっと詳しく
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Strolling around in despair through Paarden Island at least discloses well-sorted marine shops, car garages, camping equipment and electronic hardware stores with super-helpful people, many smiles and hidden gems like this one :)