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Overlanding Uruguay: finally back home in Donkey After breakfast in Buenos Aires, we pack our things and take an Uber to the harbour. We’re heading to Uruguay. First, an hour and a half on the Buquebus ferry, then another two and a half hours by bus to Montevideo. At the terminal, we’re stamped out of
Four weeks in Guatemala: back to school After three busy weeks in the Netherlands, we’re on our way to Düsseldorf. We’ve tried to visit as many friends as possible while also sorting out paperwork and other things for Raimundo’s parents. Now we have a long journey ahead, via Amsterdam and Panama to Guatemala. Donkey is
Goodbye Africa, until next time Within fifteen minutes, we’re out of Mozambique and into Eswatini. We’ve never crossed a border so quickly. On the other side, the difference is immediately noticeable. The houses look better, people are better dressed and everything looks more cared for. We camp overlooking a lake and decide to stay an
AluCab Canopy Camper review: nine months of experience You get to know an Alucab Canopy Camper pretty well when you spend nine months travelling through Africa in it. We drove around 25,000 kilometres with our Alu-Cab Canopy Camper Deluxe, slept in it every night and used it as our kitchen, bedroom, wardrobe and living space.
Car shipping from Cape Town to Montevideo: our experience Shipping our car from Cape Town to Montevideo wasn’t the original plan. We were going to travel through East Africa with Donkey, our Toyota Land Cruiser 79 Series, then drive back to Europe via West Africa. After that, we’d see. But at Lake Kivu in Rwanda,
Landcruiser 79 world trip: how we got Donkey ready When we bought Donkey, we had no plans at all to drive him around the world. But how did we made the Landcruiser 79 world trip ready. We’ve been travelling regularly through Africa since 2007, and in 2016 we did some fairly simple maths. We were
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COMESA Yellow Card: our experience in East Africa From Zambia, our route continued through East Africa, taking us through Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Malawi. We’d read plenty of reports on iOverlander about arguments over insurance prices at border crossings. Honestly, we didn’t fancy that. So we arranged COMESA insurance in advance: one insurance
Uganda Self Drive: Our Route, Costs and Practical Tips Uganda was one of those countries that surprised us in a really positive way straight away. We entered from Rwanda and immediately had a good feeling about it. The country felt green, lively and friendly. And although the border crossing was a bit chaotic at first,
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Mozambique Overlanding Route: Back to Tofo, Border Bureaucracy, and the Hunt for Diesel More than 10 years ago, we were in Mozambique already back then in Tofo, on the coast and even at the time we said to each other: we want to see more of this place someday. Now, at last, the moment has
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Zambia roadtrip: mud, elephants by the tent, and endless hospitality Our Zambia roadtrip brings us back to Donkey, right in the middle of the rainy season — with mud, elephants outside the tent, and more help from strangers than we ever expected. Zambia roadtrip: back with Donkey in Lusaka After another smooth flight we land
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