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News – Jan./Feb. 2011 (Sharjah/United Arab Emirates, February 9th, 2011)
- Website statistics: In January we were able to welcome 47'626 visitors who did 1'694'464 hits, according to 'Webalizer'.
- 'Google-Analytics' showed 46'197 Pageviews during the same period. The visitors are from ~177 countries!
- (December = 39'692 visitors – 1'373'095 Hits / November = 48'917 visitors – 1'724'728 Hits)
- ('Google-Analytics': December = 39'599 Pageviews / November = 42'410 Pageviews / 206 countries)
- Record day since 12/17/1998 = the birthday of our website: on 11/5/2007 = 13'407 visitors and 787'456 hits
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- We finished our Visaya trip through the islands of Mindoro, Panay, Negros, Cebu and Bohol situated in the Southern Philippines
- according to our schedule. However, our farewell on January 31st, 2011, didn't work out so smoothly. Firstly the container for the
- 21st sea journey to Sri Lanka wasn't available – simply forgotten to order by the shipping agent in Manila. Hence we had to cancel
- our flight from Clark to Singapore without reimbursing possibility; secondly we were charged once more very heavily when we had
- to pay the amount of US$ 1'200 (without freight) for the car's exit. The extreme bureaucracy of this country was again in full bloom!
- Luckily we got two seats at the afternoon flight of the new Philippines budget carrier Seair to Singapore. Thus we reached the Lion
- Town exactly at the start of the Chinese New Year when once a year many businesses are closing. Two days later we flew with
- another low cost carrier – Tiger Airways – for five days to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. On Tuesday our flights continued: Early
- morning with Air Asia to Colombo, although out car will arrive there only on February 26th, and on Wednesday with Air Arabia to
- Sharjah, the neighbor of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. But this isn't our holiday destination yet. Having now 2½ weeks
- "vacation from our car" we take the opportunity to visit the extraordinary island of Socotra in Yemen measuring 1'466 sq.mi.
- Actually it lies closer to Somalia – but there is no need to worry about piracy, as Felix Airways flies directly from Sharjah via
- Mukalla to Hadibo, the small main town.
- Should the situation in Yemen escalate during our visit similar to Tunisia and Egypt, we decide to backtrack the same way to Sri
- Lanka. If it remains calm we shall make a detour to Sana'a, the capital of the country. The unique architecture of Sana'a fascinated
- us already 1996. When coming from Oman we traveled through Yemen already one month. Both – the old city of Sana'a as well
- as the island of Socotra – are on the list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
- We now hope of a good arrival of our LandCruiser in Colombo on February 26th, 2011, in order to be able to explore our 169th
- country during a period of two to three months. Also we hope of an improving weather situation, as Sri Lanka received too much
- rain along the East coast and in the North.
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| The visit of 14 Pacific Islands with and 1 without our LandCruiser | Pacific (Febr. 2008-Jan. 2010 + Aug.-Sept. 2010) |
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| The visit of 13 Caribbean Islands with our LandCruiser | Caribbean (June 2003-Dec. 2004) |
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| + added from the United Arab Emirates: | Fairytale Wedding in Dubai (March 1999) |
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| + added from a earlier visit to the USA: | Las Vegas (Millennium change) |
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| + added from our Arabian Peninsula round trip: | Pictures from Yemen (May-June 1996) |
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| + Flashbacks of our Worldrecordtour: | Pictures from "all the continents" (Oct. 1984 - April 1997) |
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