Saudi Arabia was for many years a destination that was mostly overlooked or turned away by the fear of the unknown by many travelers. Because of its isolation from the rest of the world for years, any travel here seemed…
Back in 2013 while we were still working in Bali we got to experience the diving in Raja Ampat one of Indonesias top diving National Parks on board Wicked Diving's liveaboards.Read bellow their article. http://wickeddiving.com/2014/03/raja-ampat-liveaboard-trip-report-final-report-of-the-season-part-one/#.WruV-e5WP0A.mailto
When I started overlanddiaries, our present website, it was just a personal diary of my travel notes that I wanted to share. During these 7-8 years it developed itself and then it turned out to be “Two people’s dream of…
Number of days of the road:345 Days Number of total Cost spent:39342euro Number of Countries visited: 21Countries in 2 Continents Number of kilometres in total:43600 km Days of car preparation: 60 Total Daily Budget:55 euro per person Number of hours…
It took us 7 days and 15 different papers and applications in order to be allowed to apply for our Russian visa so we expected nothing better on our way to the border. To our surprise our Russian adventure was…
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…
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…
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,…
When it comes to planning a trip, you should definitely keep in mind the factor of the unexpected. When we changed our original plan and started looking into the China crossing, that fact was taken seriously under consideration. The crossing was planned to…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
After two Honda Service Locations and almost ready to go through the long procedure to get the part(cv join) from Greece the solution was given by a young Indian mechanic. A Rock was stuck in the central axle and was…
Welcome to Incredible India, a country that loves to toss up the unexpected. Here is our travel story… As the taxi drove through the streets of Mumbai, the poverty was definitely one of the first things that confronted us. Mumbai…
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…
I feel obligated to write about our Indian visa adventure as a separate post in order to warn all fellow overlanders heading to the so called by the tourist brochures “Incredible India”, with the not so incredible system of welcoming…
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…
