Following the Caravanserais distributed all across Iran we arrived in the Pakistani border. The scenery didn't change much from one country to the other in the border. The desert remained the same, only the nice Iranian roads and buses where gone. The advertised luxury, express, air con bus was a 50 years old Chinese bus with 2 engines, one to run the bus and the other for the air-con. The road was single lane, used both to come and go. So during the trip our sport was to bet who would have to jump out of the road that time, us [View Full Entry]

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Forget about everything you have heard or read about Iran. It's probably wrong. The media is not objective and never gives a full scenario about it. People listening to the media just get more and more scared about all the Iranians, which are described as terrorists and religious fundamentalists. Although their government tries to impose a strict religious conduct in the country, the reality there is different. In respect to religion, Iranians are much more relaxed than in the Arab/Islamic countries. The government actions don’t match at all with what people think and their behavio [View Full Entry]

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There is a few ways to describe the Emirates. Can be Arab Disney, the new Las Vegas, or anything else that would indicate a place with lots of money invested to create an artificial environment. I'm not saying it's not beautiful, is only artificial!! After getting lots of trouble to get the visa, we discovered that the incredible advanced E-visa could be only used at the airport. This made us take a plane to cover a distance under 300 km from Muscat to Dubai. I love technology, but sometimes.... Our stay in the Emirates was basically in Abu Dhabi, sitting on [View Full Entry]

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Crossing the border gave us a strange sensation, after a burning-hot sun in Yemen we arrived in a cold, foggy place. We couldn't see more than 20 meters away. What made us wander around a lot until we could find the Oman immigration office. The place was almost deserted. Besides the police officer we could find only some Saudi's going for the Khareef season in Salalah or a few Omanis going to Yemen to enjoy some Qat, which is forbidden in Oman. After spending around 6 hours in the border trying to get a lift to Salalah (Saudis are not hitchhiking [View Full Entry]

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Happy to be in an Arab country again. Not just because now we can relax about taking care of our belongings or to be ripped off at everyday purchasing, but is nice to feel in a familiar culture - I'm surprised to notice how I missed the call to pray at 4:30 in the morning. After so long changing places every two or three days we needed some rest. Stop for a while in the same place, have a bed, a kitchen (is amazing how much we missed a kitchen!!). But stay without doing something can be really boring. So if [View Full Entry]

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In our guide book we have read the following information: the daily cost in Djibouti was 3 times the other African countries, country had many foreigners and an strategical high tech sea port. With this information we imagined that would be a rich country, beautiful and clean (Higher cost of living) and easy to travel (many foreigners). But once we arrived, the big surprise. Even thought everything cost a fortune and people doesn't seam to realize the value of things (We went looking for hotels in Dikhil and, as we are used already, they offered a room if much higher [View Full Entry]

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Ha Ha Ha This is for the ones thinking that travel is like a ferry tale. Nice places, nice people, nice views and nice food. The ferry tale part: A typical local meal in a lazy southern village, sitting on small chairs and eating from a hand woven grass table. (US$ 0.40 for two people!) Enjoing the view of the desert spotted with few small mud huts. Driving slowly watching trough the window the dusty roads staying behind. (US$ 2.00 for a 200km trip) Sleep in a hotel room with open door and window, seeing the stars on the clean [View Full Entry]

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Who, during a very hot day, has never dreamt about being in a paradise island with white sand beaches full of palm trees and with an ocean of warm crystal clear waters? Now, let's add a little bit more information to this dream. The ocean is the Indian Ocean, the language they speak in this Island includes the words "Hakuna Matata" (Yes, the Disney movie "Lion King" took from here these words) and massages are offered in the beach.... hehehe. Well, as you may imagine already, we have been to such a place. No kidding!! We have pictures to prove [View Full Entry]

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Malawi wasn't on our initial plans, not that we have any, but we first thought on crossing from Mozambique straight to Tanzania. As we had done a detour to Zambia to sell the crasymobile, why not visit another well recommended country (we are getting expert on that, Uganda, Rwanda, Congo and now Malawi). Malawi has the nickname "The warm heart of Africa". Well given, because we found that people are indeed very welcoming (Exception to the police officer in the border control that had to be bribed to do not more than the job he was supposed to do in the [View Full Entry]

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If you have lissen the song "Hotel California", from Eagles, you can understand how we felt in Lusaka: Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before 'Relax,' said the night man, We are programmed to receive. You can checkout any time you like, but you can never leave! After 28 days stuck in Zambia, trying to sell our car, yesterday another person become the happy owner of the famous Crasymobile!! Besides the agony of not being able to keep traveling without selling the car, the new [View Full Entry]

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