First we visited Jalan Bani Bu Ali, then Jalan Bani Bu Hassan and finally drove into the Wadi Bani Khalid. We think bani means sons. At least in this area, everything had a bani in its name. Jalan Bani Bu Ali has some old watchtowers, old mud houses crumbling away and a castle with the …
From Ash Shuwaymiyah to Duqm, the route was quite boring, taking us through endless plains with not much to see. Later, we were closer to the coast again but the landscape was mostly monotonous. For the night, we found a lovely spot at the lagoon of Wadi Tarif. Like all this lagoons, many birds were …
We had already explored a little the west and north of Dhofar, now we were on the way up the coast, checking out all the springs along the mountains and an ancient town at the coast. We visited Ayn Razat, Ayn Tabraq and the waterfall at Ayn Athum. Even during the dry season, there is …
After arriving in Salalah coming from Mombasa / Kenya, we spent a couple of days at the lovely beaches of Salalah to organise ourselves and our camper. The night, when our camper left the harbour was a bit stressful, until it was finally standing on the earth again at 3am. In Salalah, we stayed at …
We had 2 contacts for organising the shipment of our car to Oman: Jane (+254 720 882 061) and Mario (+254 719 849 474). As Mario’s offer was 1,600.- USD less, we booked with him. Fellow travellers, Uli und Martina – 6x6ontour.eu, were doing the same, just that they were one week ahead of us. …
We visited the “Wildlife Works” office and learned about all their projects to make it possible that wildlife and local communities coexist. The area around Rukinga Conservancy is a critical wildlife corridor between the two halves of Kenya’s largest national park: Tsavo East and Tsavo West. At their “green house”, they are growing local trees …
We left the coast of Kenya for a change of scenery and something else to do, than to chill on the beach. On the way inland on the very busy Mombasa – Nairobi road, we stopped at the Rukinga Conservancy in the Tsavo area. There is a great campsite, Kivuli camp, in the middle of …
We spent a long time at Tiwi Beach at Twiga Lodge, a nice campsite directly at the beach under palm trees, while we waited for our shipment to Oman. Of course we also did some excursions. Amos organised for us to go dolphin spotting at the Kisite Mpunguti Marine NP. A Minibus took us to …
We were now on the way to Mombasa, to finally leave Africa by shipping our car to Oman. It was the second time we crossed Tanzania and we took the same route and the same places to stop. Not because we wanted it like that, there was just no other route which made sense or …
This time, we managed to visit Livingstonia, the old missionary high above Lake Malawi. There is an infamous route leading steep up from the lake, a not maintained gravel route with many hairpins which we left to the ones, who wish to challenge their cars. We took the new and perfect tar road, which starts …
