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- News – March 2015 (Smithfield/South Africa, 4/3/2015)
- Website statistics: 'Webalizer' has been shut down definitively in February 2013. 'Logaholic' is the current counter.
- 'Logaholic' shows now the following figures in March 2015: 22'588 visits / 94'427 pages
- 'Google-Analytics' showed 29'620 pageviews during March. The visitors come from ~231 countries!
- ('Logaholic' February = 23'260 visits / 82'107 pages; January = 24'067 visits / 88'844 pages)
- ('Google-Analytics': February = 31'068 pageviews / January = 29'523 pageviews)
- Record day since 12/17/1998 = the birthday of our website: on 11/5/2007 = 13'407 visitors and 787'456 hits ('Webalizer')
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- As we mentioned at the end of our last "News February", we left Cape Town on February 23rd, 2015. There we had not only
- the "3rd major repair" since November 2012 (back then it was the "2nd Rejuvenation" in Miri/Sarawak/East Malaysia), but we
- realised that the South African province of "Western Cape" is still beautiful nearly 22½ years later, although much has changed
- a lot in the region.
- Today we are in the "Free State" province. In the meantime we visited along the road already 8 national parks, which shows
- that the "Wild Card" – a kind of "General Visit Pass" – that we bought for two persons for ZAR 2'770 (US$ 246) and that is
- valid for one year, is really worth the money. Until now we would have paid already ZAR 2'176 on entry fees, and we'll visit
- still some other parks until our exit date from South Africa on April 22nd, 2015. We were lucky to spot quite a lot of various
- antelopes, zebras, one lion, plenty of elephants and smaller wildlife, but no rhinos yet (BBC has a very new interesting article
- about rhinos!).
- Momentarily we made a stop at a small village (Smithfield) not far from the western border of Lesotho. We shall remain here
- until after the Easter holidays und try to work off some of our pending matters. The second part of Namibia as well as our
- "wheel losses" are already online – the first part of South Africa will be connected soon too. The South Africans use namely
- their long weekends (Easter, Christmas, etc.) to escape from their neighborhood to enjoy their familiar "Braai" (barbecue)
- somewhere in the nature. Thus everything is overcrowded nearly everywhere and also the tariffs are accordingly high, similar
- to peak holiday seasons; but also the weather conditions are at the moment (here too) not the best.
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- As soon as the bustle slows down and the weather is improving, we shall take off for Lesotho. There we would like to explore
- some mountain stretches. Even if Lesotho cannot compete with Switzerland despite of its altitude of maximum 11,424 ft., it
- will bring us for sure some change from the plains of South Africa. We visited the Kingdom of Lesotho for the first time on
- October 5th, 1992, during one week as the 56th country of our world trip.
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| The visit of 6 countries with and 1 island without our LandCruiser | Middle East | |
| The visit of 10 countries with and 1 without our LandCruiser | Southeast Asia | |
| The visit of 4 countries with and 1 islandl without our LandCruiser | Indian Ocean | |
| The visit of 4 countries with and 1 without our LandCruiser | Far East | |
| 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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