Exploring the Ngorogoro Crater

Once upon a time in Tanzania, there was a volcano 5 kilometers high. When it exploded it left a caldera of 20 kilometers wide and walls 600 meters high. Lions, leopards, zebras, elephants, rhinos, gazelles, wildebeests and hyenas lived happily side by side in the crater...

Birds of Tanzania

Let me start with a piece of advice: never travel to Tanzania without a Bird Guide Book. We did and we regretted it. Luckily our guide Peter had a 3 inch thick bird guide with him that showed us every possible species that ever lived or flew over Tanzania. I’m not...

The breathtaking Ijen crater

You know how you can sometimes complain about long hours in the office, deadlines or traffic jams? I do it too. Well, let me tell you a little story: 2 years ago we visited Indonesia during a multi month trip. One of the spots we visited was the Ijen Crater, a volcano with...

Iceland part II

I told you about our fantastic jeep tour through Iceland yesterday. Well, the second day was even better and more beautiful! Together with Icelandic Mountain Guides and our amazing guide, Maxime (yes he’s French, and if you need to know: he fell in love with an...

Magical Iceland

Told you! Iceland is B-E-A-utiful! We started our first day early with a Jeep tour with Iceland Rovers. Our guide, Asgeir, showed us an ice lake at sunrise in Pingvellir National Park, the exact spot where some 1200 years ago (930 BC to be exact) Norseman founded the...