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…
We feel obligated to dedicate the post below to all the victims of COVID-19, something invisible that appeared out of nowhere and changed the world once and for all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19nBWJHclgU&t=2s When it started, nobody in this world could even imagine…
“How to set up your future vehicle-home?” So now that you have your vehicle, let’s set it up!!! Just to be clear, there are no right or wrong vehicle setups, equipment, modifications or upgrades. This falls under the personal preference…
“How to Pick the Right Ride?” You can ask any overlanders out there which is the perfect overland vehicle and most likely will point his out. You wonder why? Because since we are talking about traveling in a vehicle, everything…
This part of our trip even from the very first day of planning was a headache to plan, a challenge but also something that we had been waiting for. Driving through the BR-319 and the infamous BR-230 (officially called The…
A childhood friend and a great journalist added this article about our trip in the Sunday Ethnos paper. Unfortunately only in Greek is available at this moment.
Those of you that have been following our 11North55South exhibition would probably remember that we had left La Paz, the capital of Bolivia as well as the north part of the country out of our itinerary in our last visit…
During our route through South America we came across hundreds of beautiful locations. There were some of them though that we found it difficult to leave behind and Lima was certainly one of them. Unfortunately in the overlanders’ world the…
While in our overland trip through South America we were asked by our good friend Manolis Kyriakopoulos to be interviewed for LiveTrips.gr. We came across Livetrips by accident and while we had already started the present exhibition in our attempt to…
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
While in our overland trip through South America we were asked by our good friend Manolis Kyriakopoulos to be interviewed for LiveTrips.gr. We came across Livetrips by accident and while we had already started the present exhibition in our attempt to…
“How much money is enough to start an overland trip?” It is a question that we get asked very often and one of the most difficult to answer. Your budget is something personal and subject to the kind of…
“To do it Alone or Together?” Through our web site you probably have seen that I started my overlanding adventure before I met Rochelle and I was lucky that my partner in life was also a keen overlander. (wich is…
“Sponsoring yourself or being sponsored?” As you most probably already know, here in OVERLANDDIARIES we rely exclusively on our own funds as an income to fuel our overland expeditions. No matter how much money we have available, this will be…
“How to stay safe on the road?” Lets talk about safety now and the fine print of it. Wikipedia defines the term Overlanding as: "A self-reliant overland travel to remote destinations where the journey is the principal goal. Typically, it…
Hello fellow overlanders!!!!!! We decided to add this section on our tips & info called Moments & Momentum in order to add special short stories of our trips that add knowledge to overlanding experience. How do we find the places…
Introduction The list bellow was designed for unsupported global travel in developing countries.Developed countries have most of the resources available, so some of the items on this list are not required. The specific pack list is based on full time…
When we crossed the border from Bolivia back into Chile, we had mixed feelings. Relief, as we were away from the bad roads, the dust and the cold. Happiness, as we were heading to the sun on the coast that…
Crossing the Argentina-Bolivia border north of Humahuaca, as I read the night before on the internet, was meant to be a painful long process. So the next day we arrived prepared. In reality though, everything went rather smoothly and after…
To start things up and as we described in our last post, further in our plan was to travel between the towns of La Serena (in Chile) and San José de Jachal (in Argentina), a distance of 381km via a…
