Lençois Maranhenses part1

Next we travel further up north, to the dunes of Lençois Maranhenses. Of all Brazil’s landscape spectacles, the most unexpected has to be the Lençóis Maranhenses – a 70km-long, 25km-wide expanse of high dunes resembling lençóis (bed sheets) spread across the landscape. From March to September the dunes are partnered by thousands of crystal-clear, freshwater […]

Pantanal part2

Pantanal

After getting super excited about having salad for dinner (Sabine), thanks to still being jet lagged we went to bed early and up even earlier, at 3.30am. Taking the hop-on/hop-off plane to Cuiabá with no less than three stops along the way. Arriving in the Pantanal, it still rains and we see only a few […]

Iguaçu the wet one

So it is true what all the travel books say, you will get wet at the falls… so much rain, the only difference during the day is that from time to time it rains even more. While our ponchos keep us dry and get jealous views all around, our shoes don’t. Still, we are here […]

Iguaçu Falls

The Iguaçu Falls are located on the border of Argentina and Brazil and consist of approximately 275 individual falls over 2.7 km. Not that we counted them ourselves – too busy looking at them – but many they are. And stunning! After an early morning in Rio – jet lag, and a very early breakfast thanks […]

Rio de Janeiro

As described by LP, Rio really is the Cidade Maravilhosa! Planted between lush, forest-covered mountains and breathtaking beaches, the Cidade Maravilhosa (Marvelous City) has many charms at her disposal. We love it. The busy beach of Copacabana, where everyone is keeping active. Running, biking, surfing or using the outdoor gym. Latest at lunch we realize […]

Makgadikgadi’s bush men

before hurrying to the airstrip (the advantage of charter flights: they have to wait for your) we spent an educational morning about survival in the desert, is amazing how easy is to them to extract water from plants or start a fire.. their version of rock-paper-scisors, didn’t get it… 80 and still strong and this […]

Makgadikgadi’s meerkat experience

they move all over the place, not more than 10 seconds still , it took forever to get this picture after a while you start to see the pattern part of the meerkat experience is to wait till they climb on you for a better scouting view, unfortunately Sabine’s jacket had something about it… THAT’s […]

Makgadikgadi salt pans – a night to remember

is amazing when you see nothing but salt pan everywhere you look our ATVs after about 50min of riding THAT’s what i call a sundowner when there’s no city light polution is amazing how visible milky way is sleeping in the pan was amazing, i just gazed at the stars for almost 1hr till i […]

Makgadikgadi salt pans

San Camp is just a dream, with a very bedouiny feeling they know how to look after you.

Okovango Delta – finally: Leopard!

finally my Big Five check list is complete. in Sri Lanka i refused to believe the still exists after lots of visits in the Yala Park, in Masai Mara someone in our car claimed saw a tail (boohoo), in Namibia we had to turn around before the leopard destination, but in Botswana we had 3 […]

Okovango Delta – wild dogs, baby cheetah and lions

what a morning! Botswana lays on a plateau about 1000m high meaning in the mornings is mighty cold, we were told in the winter times frost sometimes freezes; during the morning safaris till the sun warms one up you cover with blankets and the last thing you need is the driver going like mad off […]