Today is halftime for transafrica 2010. We are on the road/in the air now for 18 days but it feels like 4 – 5 weeks. It is just amazing all the impressions we got so far. And the most amazing thing is that we never had a technical problem, were never delayed (everything went like …
Since the victoria falls hotel is the best hotel we have stayed so far, we decide to take off 2 hours later and enjoy again a great breakfast with fantastic service. They boys really enjoy their work and all come to say good bye. The beaten up taxi brings us back to the border, immigration …
Early wake up at 05.00h, no breakfast at our favorite 5 star hotel, not bill for the rooms since they can‘t do it but at least the driver is here to pick us up. At the airport, we have to look for our handler and the departure hall is just a mess. At least we …
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 …