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Monsoon-waiting part 2: Chiang Mai (September 2024)

Good morning! 

As already mentioned in our last post, we also chose to go to Chiang Mai/ Thailand to wait that Indian monsoon finishes, …so that we could return to Wischnewski who still was waiting for us in Kochi/South India. Chiang Mai is something like our second home city. We visited Chiang Mai for the 5th time now. And – again – we loved it! Great food and great friendly people. Since we already know all touristic things in Chiang Mai, we could take it easy and concentrate on Thai food. Yummy!
But at the end we were looking very much forward to reunite with brave Wischnewski who was already waiting for 4 months for continuing our journey through India. How the reunification with Wischnewski worked, will be the topic of our next blogpost (trouble was waiting!).
In the meanwhile, please enjoy some pictures from Chiang Mai (mostly food :-))
Bye-Bye from
Heike and Carsten

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Enjoy some pictures from Chiang Mai!

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In Jakarta/ Indonesia, …without Wischnewski (August 2024)

Hello everybody! 
After our stop in Germany (because of the funeral of Heikes father) we decided not to return directly to Wischnewski, who was bravely waiting for us in Kochi/South India. It was not only the monsoon that was going on in South India what made us wait. The last (emotional challenging) months needed us to make a break to regain strength and confidence to restart our trip in our expedition truck. But beside that, monsoon time (in South India) means that it is not a great time to travel in a caravan. Just too wet and too hot. So Wischnewski had to wait a little longer for our return, because we choose to wait a while in Jakarta/ Indonesia for the Indian monsoon to end. In Jakarta (south of the equator, mostly Muslim and a bit rustical) it was dry season, the right thing for us.
It was a good choice to go to Indonesia! Jakarta maybe is not the greatest city to visit as a sightseer (very big, masses of people, heavy traffic and not many sightseeing things to do). But no problem: we usually prefer just to stay and live in a suburb experiencing the country and the people. And that was the great point in Jakarta: the people! We surely met so many friendly nations/people already during our trip, but the Jakartanians surprised us with their extra-honest and pleasant friendliness. It was easy to realize that tourism did not poison the spirit yet, that was great. And we could enjoy a lot of unknown food. We felt very welcome in Jakarta and had nice 4 weeks there, … before we went on to Chiang Mai/ Thailand to spend another 4 monsoon-waiting-weeks (see next blog post).
But now please checkup some pictures from Jakarta!

Best wishes from
Heike and Carsten

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Wischnewski from the Sky (drone view)

Good morning! 

Even if we are currently on a travel break (for some more weeks…) we produced a pretty little video showing some nice drone perspectives of places that we travelled to during the last 3 years.

Enjoy the YouTube video!

Best wishes from
Heike & Carsten

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India/ Kerala (April 2024)

Good morning! 

Together with my new travel family (Timur, Anika, Zia and Lima from Cologne) I drove further south-west to the Indian state of ‚Kerala‘. The heat started to become difficult, so was the humidity. The only way to survive was to put Wischnewski directly onto the beach coast where there was a constant breeze from the seaside. And we got the doggo-friends, a lot of stray dogs in that area.

Unfortunately, also me had to interrupt our travelling (after Heike already left back home to Germany in February). Heikes father passed away in April so that I flew back to Kassel for funeral and to meet the family. Wischnewski waits for us in the city ‚Kochi‘ where we found a good place to park close to the airport.

We will continue our overlander trip soon, sometimes in the middle of this year, and of course we will keep you updated 🙂

Enjoy the pictures!

Best wishes from
Heike & Carsten

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India/ Goa (March 2024)

Good morning! 

The Indian state ‚Goa‘ is a great place to relax and a even better place to meet nice people (also other overlander). I had a wonderful time in the beach village of ‚Agonda‘ together with new friends from Italy, England and Germany. We did not do much, just enjoying the beach, having great food, investigating the area (sometimes jungle-like, a bit carrebean style) per motorcycle… and of course: a lot of watching the cows that are running around everywhere. You find them in the streets, at the beach, in restaurants, shops and gardens.

Enjoy the pictures!

Best wishes from
Heike & Carsten

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Enjoy some pictures from Goa!

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