The international terminal "B" in Frankfurt is entirely empty. Restaurants are closed, we satisfy our hunger with bakery products. After a lot of back…
Author: Oliver Gorny
Breaking news: we’re flying back to Namibia – FINALLY
We have been on home leave for almost exactly ten months: what was originally planned as a normal travel break of four months for…
Stranded in Mallorca
Exactly four months ago we started our home vacation in Mallorca - due to the birthday of a very good friend of ours a…
Adventure Angola: through the Baobab country up to the Congo River
W/R to Angola, we are really curious: after decades of civil war, the battered but resource-rich country was slowly reviving before the significant decline…
Transit Namibia: from South Africa to Angola
After the exciting detour to the Richtersveld N.P., on the South African side, we enter again Namibia at the border near Oranjemund. Oranjemund was…
South Africa is coming to an end: highlights along the Atlantic coast to the Northern Cape province
After the eventful time in Cape Town and the surrounding area we look forward to nature, wilderness and loneliness. In pouring rain, however, the…
Wining and Dining … and our new favorite city Cape Town
We spend a total of five days in the Franschhoek-Stellenbosch wine region, visit over 25 wineries and enjoy almost as many wine tastings. Of…
The Garden Route – the completely “different” Africa
Many Overlanders tend to avoid this part of South Africa: too touristy, too "developed" and not sufficiently adventurous. We have planned the route anyway,…
The Eastern Cape – The province of extreme contrasts
Coming from the impressive Drakensberg mountains, we drive through lovely farmland: sparsely populated, well-ordered, scenic landscape ... like in the Allgäu in Southern Germany.…