The idea of experiencing New Year's Eve fireworks in a completely different way - namely on a volcano that regularly has lava eruptions -…
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Guatemala: From the tropical lowlands to the indigenous mountains
The border crossing from Belize to Guatemala is the narrowest that we have crossed so far in our 50 countries traveled with Shujaa. At…
The end of our trip through Mexico: the Yucatan Peninsula
From the deep jungle of the Mayan ruins of Calakmul we drive to the beaches on the untouristy north/west side of the Yucatan Peninsula.…
From the mega-metropolis of Mexico City to the indigenous Oaxaca
With the intense impressions of the “Dias de los Muertos” we drive towards Mexico City... with 22 million inhabitants, one of the largest metropolitan…
The colonial highlands of Mexico and a unique experience: “Dias de los Muertos”
Our decision to leave Baja California a few days earlier turned out to be absolutely right: Hurricane Norma is causing severe devastation and ferry…
The U.S.A. Finals – Arizona, Las Vegas and Southern California
After three days of relaxing from all the off-road driving of the last few weeks, we head to the city of Page at Lake…
Through the wilderness of north-west Canada into the first foothills of Alaska
We take the ferry to the capital of Vancouver Island - Victoria. Entering Canada with its friendly border officials is much easier and less…
From San Francisco to the Northwestern tip of the U.S.A.
This time our travel break in Europe lasted four months. We had enough time to digest our travel impressions from the previous stage, recharge…
Continuing through the National Parks of the Southwest to California
The density of sights here in the Southwest of the U.S.A. is really impressive: despite the still enormous distances (although not quite as extreme…