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News – February 2012 (Grande Anse/Réunion, February 29th, 2012)


Website statistics: In February we were able to welcome 43'434 visitors who did 2'102'821 hits, according to 'Webalizer'.: 'Google-Analytics' showed 80'058 Pageviews during the same period. The visitors come from ~189 countries!
(January = 50'960 visitors – 1'581'496 Hits / December = 33'599 visitors – 1'156'854 Hits)
('Google-Analytics': January = 59'955 Pageviews / December = 34'128 Pageviews / 211 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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Emil's 70th birthday is over – since February 24th, time is running speedy towards the 80th! But the next "milestone" is already around
the corner: The 10'000th travel day on March 3rd, 2012. If somebody had told us on October 16th, 1984, that we are still driving
around in the same vehicle after 27¼ years .....
We mentioned in our last News (January) that here on Réunion nothing is setting the world on fire. But in the meantime that changed
considerably. It started on February 14th, – the day when the "media guys" from Switzerland who visited us for five days had to fly
back. Most of the main roads were blocked by truck drivers, because the island increased the fuel prices beginning of January by
US¢ 12, which was rated as disproportionately. But finally our friends reached the plane after a 11 hours drive to the airport that
usually is done within 1½ hours. After the conflict i.e. the strike faded out, jobless youngsters have taken over for the worse: Looting
shops, setting fire to cars, rioting and vandalism. Never ever we expected this to happen on the holiday island of Réunion! Only as the
gendarmerie got reinforcements from abroad the tensions started to ease. Due to this abnormal situation our mobility was constrained.
But we still managed to move from our "mountain place" on 2'430 ft. to our new location on the coast.



Referring to our recent plan of "most likely Africa" as our next destination, we added another two options: South Korea and India.
Although we have been at the first place in mid-June 1999, it would enable us to enter the transsiberian road by taking the ferry to
Vladivostok, while the second choice allowed a visit of Ladakh. There was even a time when the Caucasus region was on the table
too. Even we are wondering now where we shall end up.

New Reports/Pictures
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Réunion 3 Picture Galleries (Dec. 2011- ....)	Réunion part 1 (Saint-Denis & surroundings-West Coast-Salazie- La Paix-North Coast-Takamaka-Dos d'Âne) Réunion part 2 (Les Makes-La Fenêtre-Saint Louis-East Coast- The Volcano-Grande Anse) Réunion part 3 Cilaos
Madagascar 4 Picture Galleries (Sept. - Dec. 2011)		Madagascar part 1 (Tamatave-Andasibe-Antananarivo-Miandrivazo) Madagascar part 2 (Miandrivazo-Morondava-Antsirabe-Fianar-Ambalavao) Madagascar part 3 (Ambalavao-Isalo N.P.-Tuléar-Ranomafana) Madagascar part 4 (Antananarivo-Ankadibe-Manambato-Foulpointe-Tamatave)
Mauritius 2 Picture Galleries (July - Sept. 2011)	Mauritius (with car) Rodrigues Island (without car)
Sri Lanka 3 Picture Galleries (March - May 2011)		Sri Lank part 1 Sri Lank part 2 Sri Lank part 3
United Arab Emirates 1 Picture Gallery: (w/o car) Feb. 19th, to 27th, 2011) 1 Picture Report (with car) (February - May 1999)	U.A.E. 2nd Visit (Dubai-Sharjah) (without car) U.A.E. 1st Visit (with car)
Yemen 3 Picture Reports (w/o car) (Feb. 9th, to 19th, 2011) 1 Picture Galleriy (with car) (May-June 1996)		Island of Socotra East (w/o car) Island of Socotra South (w/o car) Island of Socotra West (w/o car) Pictures from Yemen Trip (with car)
Papua New Guinea 2 Pict. Reports* + 3 Pict.Galleries (Aug. - Oct. 2010)	1) Milne Bay - (Port Moresby) - Mt. Hagen - Lae 2)* Mt. Hagen Cultural Show 8/13-15/2010 3) Lae – Madang – Goroka *4) Goroka Cultural Show 9/17-19/2010 5) Goroka - Mt. Hagen - Kumul Pass - Mt. Hagen - Goroka - Lae**
Indonesia 2010 1 Picture Report + 2 Pict.Galleries (March - June 2010)		North Sumatra Report (March-April 2010) West-Sumatra Gallery (May-June 2010) Southern Sumatra Gallery (June 2010)
Tonga Picture Report (Nov. 2009 - Jan. 2010)	Tongatapu Island
French Polynesia 3 Picture Reports (Aug. -Oct. 2009)		Tahiti 1st part Picture Report (Aug.-Sept. 2009) Tahiti 2nd part Picture Report (Oct. 2009) Moorea Picture Report (Sept. 2009)
Cook Islands (without car) Picture Gallery (Aug. 2009)	Rarotonga Island
American Samoa Picture Gallery (July 2009)
Samoa 4 Picture Reports: (April-June 2009)	Island of Upolu: 1st part Island of Upolu: 2nd part Independence Day June 1st, 2009 Island of Savaii
Fiji 3 Picture Galleries: (Jan.-March 2009)		1st part: Island of Viti Levu (Jan.+Febr. 2009) 2nd part: Island of Vanua Levu (March 2009) 3rd part: Island of Taveuni (March 2009)
Vanuatu 2 Picture Galleries: (1st visit: July 2008) (2nd visit: Dec. 2008-Jan. 2009)	Vanuatu 1st visit (without car) Vanuatu 2nd visit (with car)
New Caledonia 3 Picture Galleries: (Aug.-Oct. 2008)		1st part: Grand Terre: Nouméa + South (Aug.2008) 2nd part: Grand Terre: North #1 (Aug.+Sept. 2008) 3rd part: Grand Terre: North #2 (Sept.+Oct. 2008)
New Zealand 6 Picture Galleries: (South Island: Febr.-May 2008) (North Island: May-July 2008)	1st part: South Island (Febr.+March 2008) 2nd part: South Island (March 2008) 3rd part: South Island (April 2008) 4th part: South to North Island (May 2008) 5th part: North Island (May+June 2008) 6th part: North Island (June+July 2008)
Philippines 4 Picture Galleries: (1st visit: Febr. 2008) (2nd visit: Nov. 2010-Jan. 2011)		Philippines 1st visit (without car Febr. 2008) Philippines 2nd visit (with car): Luzon (South)-Mindoro-Panay (Nov.-Dec. 2010) Negros-Cebu (Dec. 2010-Jan. 2011) Bohol-Luzon (South) (Jan. 2011)
Taiwan 3 Picture Reports: (Oct.- Nov. 2007)	1st part: Kaohsiung-Kenting-Taitung 2nd part: Taitung-Southern Cross- Island Hwy-Siraya NSA (Zengwun Reservoir)-Alishan-Sun Moon Lake -Taroko-Suao- Hualien Hwy-Taipei 3rd part: Taipei-Taitung-Kaohsiung
Timor-Leste (East Timor) 2 Picture Reports: (May 2007)		Exclave of Oecussi Mainland
Indonesia 2006/07 1 Report + 6 Picture Galleries: (Sumatra-Java: Sept.-Dec. 2006) (Bali: Jan.-March 2007) (Lombok, Sumabawa, Flores: April 2007) (Sumba, West Timor: May+June 2007) (Sulawesi:June+July 2007) (Tana Toraja (-Land): June+July 2007) (Kalimantan: July 2007)	Sumatra-Java (= Report) Bali Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores Sumba, West Timor Sulawesi Tana Toraja (Toraja-Land) Kalimantan
Brunei Picture Report (Sept. 2006)
Borneo 3 Picture Reports: (Sarawak: 1st visit: June-Aug. 2006) (Sabah: Oct. 2006) (Sarawak: 2nd visit: Nov. 2006) Picture Gallery: (Borneo-Trip: Sept.-Nov. 2006)	Sarawak part 1 – Northeast (Miri) Sabah Sarawak part 2 – South (Kuching) Borneo (Sabah, Brunei, Sarawak, Kalimantan)
“Rejuvenation” Picture Report (Engine/Body: June-Aug. 2006) (Transmission: Sept. 2007)		Report of the first overhaul of our LandCruiser in Miri/Sarawak - the East Malaysian province on the island of Borneo
Myanmar (South) (without car) Picture Report (May 2006)
Thailand 2 Picture Galleries: (1st visit: Nov. 1993 - Jan. 1994) (2nd visit: Nov. - Dec. 2005) (3rd visit: Febr. - April 2006)		Temples, Pagodas, Shrines People, Beaches, Nature
Laos Picture Report (February 2006)
Vietnam Picture Report (January 2006)
Cambodia Picture Report (December 2005)
Malaysia (West) Picture Report (Oct. - Nov. 2005) (May 2006)
Singapore Picture Gallery (September 2005)
Macao (without car) Picture Gallery (September 2005)
Hong Kong 2 Picture Galleries: (1st visit: September 2005) (2nd visit: Dec. 2007-Jan. 2008)	Hong Kong 1st visit (without car) Hong Kong 2nd visit (with car)


The visit of 14 Pacific Islands with and 1 without our LandCruiser		Pacific (Febr. 2008-Jan. 2010 + Aug.-Sept. 2010)
The visit of 13 Caribbean Islands with our LandCruiser		Caribbean (June 2003-Dec. 2004)
+ added from the United Arab Emirates:		Fairytale Wedding in Dubai (March 1999)
+ added from a earlier visit to the USA:		Las Vegas (Millennium change)
+ added from our Arabian Peninsula round trip:		Pictures from Yemen (May-June 1996)
+ Flashbacks of our Worldrecordtour:		Pictures from "all the continents" (Oct. 1984 - April 1997)
+ Follow-ups about Toyota-Experiences:		Encounters resp. "Ups + Downs" with Toyota Companies since 1982
On July 7th, 2005, we were able to celebrate after a journey through 150 countries the car's 600'000th Kilometer - very prosaic in front of the post office in Cayenne/French Guiana. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On June 10th, 2009, we were able to celebrate after a journey through 163 countries the car's 400'000th Mile - in a beautiful landscape in the West of the island of Savaii/Samoa. Are you interested into the LandCruiser History, prepared by Toyota Motor Sales USA and taken over by Toyota Motor United Kingdom? (after some loading-time please klick "IN LEGEND" and afterwards "HAIR TO MAGELLAN"

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