As usual i wake up around 06.00h without alarm clock and start to realize that we crossed the equator since it is still dark out there. The swim in the pool is nice and i do my moo pal exercises (martial art breathing exercises). It feels rather cold; we are not used anymore to the …
After getting up, the packing is one more time optimized; stuff from the small bag into the medium one, stuff i don‘t need anymore in the big green bag that is usually at the bottom in the cargo space of the plane. And then off to breakfast where rainer already sits at the table. Coincidentally …
17th of May We are able to sleep a bit longer this morning since we have a presentation about a wireless broad band communication project here in cameroon. This is the first meeting we have on the „business side“ on our journey. Dov, a private investor we know from switzerland, has an interesting project to …
We have a great breakfast in the hotel; really appreciate the place. We were told by some people it is not so wonderful – for us it was the second best so far! We are on the runway by 09.05 flying along the atlantic coast which is just one long beach. Impressive cloud formations are …
There is another flight taking off from ouga this morning and it is a great feeling to walk by all the immigration, custom‘s officers and security checks. We are airborne in no time and from the plane we can see how the climate is changing to more moisture with many clouds. Also the ground is …
We are now a week into our journey and it feels like a month already. To digest all these impressions we experience in such a short time is sometimes quite difficult. Today we are leaving the red zone. While preparing our journey, i checked the different home pages of the swiss, french, british and german …
12th of May – Timbuktu Ali picks us up at 08.00h and he was able to arrange a visit to the mosque with the gardien. What an impressive building. Immediately we are surrounded by tourist guides and people trying to sell us tuareg jewelry. We are greeted by the iman and climb through narrow passages …
Kader drives us to the airport and take-off is exactly at 09.00h. Police and airport administration is more efficient than switzerland; everybody seems to know that we are friends of abdelkader and we get treated accordingly. They even don‘t want to see rainer‘s custom‘s declaration that he left in the airplany. We fly on 6‘500 …
9th of May – Assekrem Another early wake-up at 5.15h since we have a long flight today. Refueling is in In Salah where temperature in the summer can reach 60 degrees Celsius is going extremely smooth. From there on we fly low towards Tamanrasset (or as it is also called tAM) where immigration turns out …
7th of May Finally the big day is here and take-off is at 09.30h from Grenchen as planned. It is cold, grey and rainy. Climbing through clouds, the route takes us over the Gotthard to Milano, Genova, over Corsica to Olbia. The new terminal building on this tourist destination is quite impressive and the light …