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Extra Pictures on Flickr

Extra Pictures on Flickr

Hello picture lovers, We’re more then happy to share more pictures from our journey with you. It is sometimes difficult to upload all these megabytes because the upload speed in most African internet cafes is, well, non-existent. But despite these challenges, we have managed to serve you some snack sized eye candy on Flickr. I thought, ...

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Does our journey end here?

We planned to take the ferry from Iskenderun to Port Said, Egypt. But we learned here in Istanbul, that all ferry services are cancelled until further notice. SAY WHAT?! Due to the political situation and turmoil in Egypt, the combination of car + driver isn’t transported there anymore. Italy already stopped its ferry services shortly ...

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Raiders of the lost Carnet

 The things that cause a lot of frustration, is the paperwork. We thought that if you drive to Africa, you get yourself a few visa, you just drive your iron horse to the border, you hand over soms baksjiesj to pay for a quick processing and that you celebrate your first meters in the new country with an impossible high exchange rate. Wrong! ...

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