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News – March 2010 (Lake Toba/Sumatra/Indonesia, March 31st, 2010)
- (News of April will be combined with those of May in the 2nd half of the month)
- Website statistics: In February we were able to welcome on our website 41'772 visitors who did 1'424'116 hits.
- (January = 44'697 visitors – 1'598'449 Hits / December = 38'469 visitors – 1'308'768 Hits)
- The visitors are coming from about 173 different 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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- Since a few days we are back "on the road" – even if we are still not in the best of health at the moment. The afterpains of our
- severe colds haven't improved completely, which started in Singapore, continued in Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia and weren't totally
- over in Medan/Indonesia. Somehow or other: We had to release our LandCruiser from the Indonesian customs, which arrived
- a bit premature on February 24th, 2010, in Medan's port. Hence we flew on March 8th, from Kuala Lumpur to Medan, the 3rd
- biggest Indonesian city – once more with the budget line AirAsia.
- One day later, we visited together with a shipping agent – actually his main job is customs officer – the harbor: Unbelievable, but
- within three hours, we could drive out without any problem! Subject to the condition that one is in possession of a "Carnet de
- Passages en Douane", Belawan became one of the most trouble-free entry ports in Southeast Asia – not anymore to compare
- what we had to endure on bureaucracy excesses four years ago on the occasion of our first visit to Indonesia.
- Finally, we managed to leave the very hot and humid metropolis of Sumatra and to escape into the cooler mountains. Thus we
- spent firstly a few days in the city of Berastagi at an altitude of 4'265ft., where the tribe of the Karo-Batak lives. Afterwards we
- continued to Lake Toba at 2'970ft., which has a size of 440 sq.mi. Next was ferrying over to Pulau Samosir, a pretty big island
- of 240 sq.mi. in the middle of the lake and home of the Tabo-Batak people. Now, we are at the island's Eastern shore in the
- village of Tuktuk – a popular excursion and holiday area.
- After Easter, we will carry on towards the South, following more or less along Sumatra's Western seashore, where on
- December 26th, 2004, the devastating tsunami ravaged.
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North Sumatra Report (March-April 2010) West-Sumatra Gallery (May - .....)
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Tahiti
1st part Picture Report (Aug.-Sept.
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| The visit of 13 Pacific Islands with and 1 without our LandCruiser | Pacific February 2008-January 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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