Chapter 28/Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, the most economically advanced of the ‘Stans’ (thanks to its reserves of oil, natural gas and minerals) is the ninth-biggest country in the World. With land of 2.7 million sq km, is about the size of Western Europe meanwhile its population is just over 17 million people.
First port of call for us? Well, since we still […]

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Chapter 27/Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan is rapidly becoming the gateway of choice for western travelers in Central Asia. The reasons for this are its natural beauty, unspoiled mountain scape, ragged ridges, summer pastures and the recent introduction of visa-free travel, in addition with almost all of its neighbors. So it’s easy to see why.
As we were finally out of […]

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Chapter 26/China

Together with Anja and Hauke on their motorbikes, Ronald and Rini in their camper and Anand, Punita,Yash and Dhriti, the Baid family, we continued through the deserts of Xinjiang into the city of Turpan, China’s Death Valley. At 154m below sea level, it’s the second lowest depression in the world and the hottest spot in China. Despite […]

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Earthquake Aftermath

As we mention on our last post we were  forced to leave our car in the Border of Nepal and China as the roads were blocked by mud-slides and rain. The situation was in the hands of the Chinese Army and after 9 long days we were finally reunited with our vehicles but unfortunately with a […]

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Nepal-Overlanddiaries Ch 24 (Earthquake Strikes….)

It was 8:30, on the morning of the 25th of April 2015, when Anja and Hauke from Germany on their motorbikes, Ronald and Rini from Holland in their camper and Anand, Punita,Yash and Dhriti, the Baid family from India, together with us in Voukefalas, rolled out of our camp and drove the last 12 km to […]

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Chapter 23/Nepal

Ever since Nepal first opened its borders to outsiders in the 1950s, this tiny mountain nation has had an irresistible mystical allure for travelers. Packed between the high wall of the Himalayan range and the steamy jungles of the Indian plains, Nepal is a land of snow peaks, yaks, monasteries and mantras. Today, trekkers in […]

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Chapter 22/India

Our trip started taking a crucial turn as Voukefalas didn’t sound good and we had to get out of India in ten days. Although we both managed to keep calm, our concern was obvious as we started our drive out of Jaipur and towards the capital, New Delhi.
Before our arrival in New Delhi and as […]

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Earthquake Alert

As we were about to cross in to China from Nepal and continue our epic journey ,the powerful and destructive earthquake of 7.9 Richter  hit us.We are ok but forced to leave our car in the Border of Nepal and China as the roads were blocked by mud-slides and rain. As the situation was in […]

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Chapter 21/India

Most of you might wonder about our experiences on the actual roads of India. Well, remember our post about the road conditions while we were heading south from Mumbai? Compared to the ones on the north, they were super highways. As we headed further north inland and the streets went from bad to worse, besides […]

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Chapter 20/India

In almost every traveler’s itinerary that makes it as far as South India is a ride through Kerala’s backwaters on a houseboat. Alappuzha, or more romantically known as Alleppey, is the hub of the backwaters. It’s also home to a vast network of waterways and base for more than 1000 houseboats. In other words, it’s the […]

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Chapter 18/India

As an intro to Incredible India ,our present destination ,we have put together in this post a quick look in facts and figures for you in order to understand what makes this vast multi cultural and multi lingual country so unique:
– India adds more people to its population every year than any other country. Between the […]

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Gadget Updates

Sorry for the late posting,at the moment we are back on the road  and with Voukefalas in our side.I am not sure if the post below was needed but being in the beautiful Agonda Beach in South Goa without our mobile home, I felt like putting together a quick rundown of all the equipment that […]

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Chapter 17/UAE

Kept you waiting?Well here it is……….
Our UAE story started with a lot of stress because our cars were pending somewhere between Iran and the UAE. As I mentioned in the Oman Chapter, as soon as we landed we headed straight to the Mina Rashid Port because that was the port that our cars supposedly had […]

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New Route

Traveling is one of the things in life that can never be either programmed or planned 100%. While on the road the facts change our course without any prior notice. We have been planning for this trip for almost two years. Our sources, our route and our timetables were indeed carefully planned in order to have […]

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Chapter16/Oman

As the plane landed in Dubai airport, we put behind the good and the bad of our adventure in Iran and said hello to the UAE. We spent the next 3 days in Mina Rashid Port trying to get the cars out of Customs but for more details about this in our next post with the […]

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Chapter15/Iran

……..Then there was Shiraz, a city that has become synonymous with education, poetry and wine. Unfortunately the last one is no longer cultivated here. After locating ourselves in the centre and securing Voukefalas, we decided to spend our time exploring and organizing our trip. The city itself served as the Iranian capital during the Zand […]

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Chapter 13/Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran, a place I had promised myself that I would go back to after my unsuccessful attempt in 2011. This time we entered from the Iran -Azerbaijan borders and the city of Astara. With the bureaucracy at its best, especially form the Iranian side, it took us almost 4 hours to complete all […]

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Chapter 12

This is neither Europe nor Asia. Azerbaijan is a tangle of contradictions and contrasts, a centre of ancient empires and at the same time a “new” nation rapidly emerging on a petroleum-funded new economy.
Let me start from the beginning though. Our feedback about the border crossing of Azerbaijan was negative and there were always talks […]

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Chapter 9

After saying goodbye to the Mediterranean Sea, we started heading inland to our next destination. This time it was Cappadocia, a gifted place that looks like it was plucked from a fairytale and set down upon the Anatolian plains. In reality, Cappadocia is a geological oddity of honeycombed hills and towering boulders of unparalleled beauty. The [...]

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Chapter 8

From the beginning of this trip I have been talking to Rochelle about my favorite place in Turkey and our upcoming destination Kas. It may not sport the finest beaches in the region but it’s centrally located, has a mellow atmosphere and a huge range of adventure activities. Kas– pronounced (roughly) ‘cash’ – is an ideal [...]

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