Author Archives: Michiel
October 14th – Day 115
In the morning Dirk has a jr. Assistant. At eight the church ceremony starts, the church is right behind our guesthouse, and all the people are walking by. They are beautiful dressed. During packing the cars, a lot of people … Continue reading
October 5 – day 106
We get up early today,6:30. Now that’s vacation.. The mascotte ‘Kees’ from the Beijing to Paris trip in 2007, is mounted at the dashboard. He’s ready for it! Packing the suitcases on the roof of the LandRover is like a … Continue reading
October 4 – day 105
Tonight at 2 o’clock the new team is arrived at the airport of Dar Es Salam. The plane arrived 45minutes early and after a call to Dirk and Trudy, 5min later they show up at the airport. Trudy is very … Continue reading
September 30 – day 101
A day of nothing, pure luxury. In the morning a nice breakfast, the rest of the day we are sitting at the swimming pool. Dirk is doing some maintenance on the tford he finds out that a wishbone and a … Continue reading
September 25 – day 96
his morning we had a very nice last breakfast at the family Morson, the trip is going towards the Kilimanjaro. We did get a few addresses of friends of Gwynne where could stay on our way. After 122 kilometres we … Continue reading
September 24 – day 95
After a good night sleep and with a little hangover we join breakfast, today we are going to pay a visit to the SOS children village Arusha. Dirk and Renzo have used this day to do some modifications to the … Continue reading
September 23 – day 94
Towards the crater, the final day of our trip. At 07:15 after breakfast we drive to the crater and meet some other tourists who are waiting to get in to the crater, after our driver and guide arranges all the … Continue reading
September 22 – day 93
This morning our driver was already at 06:00 at the lobby of our hotel, it was a short night. He wanted to go in the Serengeti early, so he could show us animals which aren’t that active during the day. … Continue reading
September 21 – day 92
This morning at 7:45 our driver Kayee was ready to drive us to the Serengeti. A large landcruiser with 8 places to sit, plenty of space. Normally the journey would take about 6 hours but our driver managed it to … Continue reading
September 18 – day 89
Yesterday evening we discussed how we could plan our trip so we could leave town without much delay, using the good friend google maps and streetview. The trip goes to the border of Tanzania to a place called Namanga. At … Continue reading