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With Wischnewski in Pakistan (January 2024)

Hello all! 

To travel through Pakistan on our voyage to India was of extraordinary excitement for us (3 trucks). From what we heart from the media and government information ‚it is not possible‘ because very dangerous etc. But once more that was absolutely misleading. It was easy and nice to travel even through Belutschistan guided by the Levi-police. For us it was very pleasant to meet the Pakistani people on the streets and in the villages during our trip. But we had to learn and accept that it was of biggest importance for the locals when we arrived. Everywhere people joined us in big groups (because for them it is almost not to believe that 3 trucks from Europe are travelling in Pakistan). We had a great time and could enjoy it. One more great experience!

Best wishes from
Heike and Carsten

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Wischnewski again in Iran (Devember 2023): Dezful, Shiraz and the Luth desert

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Christmas 2023 was of a different kind: we did not travel back home to Germany since we have been there already twice in 2023. Our travel family got bigger since Nuria & Antonio did join our group in Iran. The plan was to celebrate Christmas and New Year together in Iran and then travel together in a convoy of 3 trucks to India via Pakistan.

After travelling more than one year in the Arabic world (and we loved that very much!) Iran was a very refreshing world. Persia for us is a much more liberal world where Europeans have a much easier time to get around since the rules are not so strict and the life on the street feels much more familiar for us. Maybe it is only the fact that Iranian women take a normal part of everyday’s life (you can see them, you can talk to them) what makes the difference. We felt very welcome and we were very happy to be able to get back to Iran for a second time!

So enjoy some impressions from Iran!

Best wishes from
Heike and Carsten

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Wischnewski still in Jordan (November 2023): Wadi Rum and more

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Today we have some more pictures from Jordan for you, including pictures from the famous ‚Wadi Rum‘ where we were following the steps of ‚Lawrence of Arabia‘ 🙂

Best wishes from
Heike and Carsten

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With Wischnewski in Jordan (October 2023): Petra, Dead Sea and Mount Nebo

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Jordan is another country in the Arabic world that we did not know so far. Even if we had a great time in Jordan, visiting the famous World Heritage Site ‚Petra‘, Mount Nebo and the Dead Sea, we – of course – found much more tourism than in the months before in Saudi-Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq etc. That made a significant change to our perception: the pure Arabic soul was not to be seen so clearly, often we had to struggle with the side-effects of tourism (e.g. when it comes to bargain fair prices without getting ripped of). That was not a big problem, but during the months before we really enjoyed experiencing the pure Arabic spirit, friendliness and honest hospitability (that we liked so much).

But still: Petra, Mount Nebo and the Dead Sea were great (if we don’t think about the millions of flies that come over at the Ded Sea to say hello in the afternoon :-0)

Best wishes from
Heike and Carsten

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Back in Saudi: Wischnewski waiting for us at 40°C (September 2023)

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After 3 months altogether we are back in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah). But why did we had to ‚come back‘!? What happened? Unfortunately we had to pause our world trip for three months since my (Carstens) mother unexpectedly passed away in May 2023. Of course, this very sad event did change a lot for us. We flew back to Germany to take care of family and things. But before we had to find a place to park Wischnewski for an uncalculated long time. That was not a simple task to organize. Where do you put a (9,5m, 14t) truck? It is our home and we of curse wanted Wischnewski to stay save. And: leaving a vehicle in a foreign country outside of Europe is a big and difficult task to arrange. The customs authorities absolutely hate that. But again, the hospitability and friendliness of the Arabic people solved the problem within hours. A new good friend from Jeddah – Fayez (our hero) – organized a save place right away and gave us what we needed to leave the country without our truck. Now we only had to cross fingers that Wischnewski could stand the heat. Summer was coming up in Saudi with expected 40-50°C.

Good news: When we returned in September all worked out well with Wischnewski. The (Mercedes) engine started immediately willing to move on. We only had to clean up and had to fix minor damages. Especially plastic and all that is glued did not like the Saudi summer heat…

The other good thing was that we could meet again with our friends from Spain/ Ecuador (Magy & Carlos) to travel together in the next months.

Best wishes from
Heike and Carsten

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