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Caravanserai Iran

Geld in Iran: alles wat je moet weten

De leukste cadeaus voor vanlifers 2024

Tüz Gölü, zoutmeer

Vanlife Turkije: 5 plekken die je niet mag missen

Geld in Iran: alles wat je moet weten

Caravanserai Iran

Iran is een fascinerend land met een rijke cultuur en geschiedenis, maar voordat je je reis begint, is het belangrijk om goed voorbereid te zijn …

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De leukste cadeaus voor vanlifers 2024

Op zoek naar het perfecte cadeau voor een vanlifer of camperaar? Voor de doorgewinterde reiziger, of een nieuwkomer die net zijn eerste bus heeft gekocht. …

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Tüz Gölü, zoutmeer

Vanlife Turkije: 5 plekken die je niet mag missen

Güver Canyon, Turkije Turkije is wat ons betreft een veelbelovende vanlife-bestemming. Vooral vanwege de Turkse ‘chai’ die je overal aangeboden krijgt, de levendige bazaars, het …

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Overland Tadzjikistan

Is een 4×4 camper noodzakelijk voor een wereldreis?

Stel, je droomt van een reis naar de meest afgelegen plekken van de wereld. Rijden langs kliffen, door duinen, rivierbeddingen en over eindeloze steppes. Een …

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Bandenspanning camper

Welke banden accessoires je moet meenemen

Voor reizigers die met de auto een lange reis gaan maken is een goede voorbereiding essentieel. Investeren in de juiste tools kan namelijk het verschil …

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Banden accessoires

Bandenspanning: hoe bepaal je dat?

Als je je bandenspanning op peil houdt heb je minder kans op scheuren in het rubber en op klapbanden bij warm weer. Daarnaast kan je …

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Dashboard camper herfst

De beste reis apps voor overlanders

Moeilijke grensposten, wisselende valuta, nieuwe talen: overlanden is soms een uitdaging. Gelukkig zijn er apps die ons leven op reis een stuk makkelijker maken. Na …

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Busleven

Wij zijn Bobby en Jessica en samen met onze hond Yuna zijn we aan het overlanden in Azië. In 2016 lieten we ons inspireren door de hashtag #vanlife en bouwden we een oude ambulance om tot camper. In 2022 besloten we Europa te verlaten voor een avontuur op vier wielen. Onze camper is een Mercedes 208D uit 1991. Meer over ons.

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Want to hear all the ins and outs of traveling to Want to hear all the ins and outs of traveling to the far East with your own campervan? 🚑 Then you’re in luck, because we’ll tell all about it at the Kampeer & Caravan Jaarbeurs in Utrecht.

We’ve been asked to share our story at this expo. From converting a campervan to wild camping in deserts. 🐪 How far can you go with a self-built camper? In this talk, we will share our two-year journey through 27 countries. 🌏

If you followed our journey from the Middle East to Mongolia and you’re curious to hear more, then this might be interesting for you.

📍3 oktober, from 11:00-12:00 at Kampeer & Caravan Jaarbeurs Utrecht. Kampeertheater, hal 11. @kampeerencaravanjaarbeurs 

The presentation will be in Dutch 🇳🇱
Remote places 📍 One of the the things we liked Remote places 📍

One of the the things we liked most during our trip was being far away from civilization. It always brings a sense of freedom and adventure 🤩🧭

There are plenty of places in the world where you will often be all alone, like Saudi Arabia, Mongolia and Armenia (where we took this picture) 📸

But those quiet places are a bit harder to find in Europe. So when we started thinking about interesting destinations for this summer, we collected some data about population density on our continent and see where the least people live 🗺️

It turns out Scotland is pretty quiet, just like the North-East of Germany. So we might take a look in one of those places. Do you have any other recommendations? 😊

#remoteplaces #overlanding #vanlifeexplorers
We were blown away by these beautiful places in Türkiye! 🇹🇷 Save this post for later 💾

1. Tuz Gölü - this huge saltlake has the most beautiful pink colour (38.9596518, 33.3979007)
2. Salda Gölü - a very clean blue lake with white shores (37.5650376, 29.7168703)
3. Cappadocia - this area is famous for its many hot air balloons, but also features a ton of rock formations (38.6575848, 34.8201410)
4. Güver Canyon - located not far from Antalya, but this canyon is very quiet and very deep (36.9605143, 30.5652577)
5. Karanlik Canyon - here you can follow a narrow track with many tunnels along the Euphrates river (39.2863176, 38.4884924)

#vanlifeturkey #cappadociaturkey #saldagölü #tuzgölü
We have returned our cars passport 😁🛂 If yo We have returned our cars passport 😁🛂

If you want to travel the world with your car, you’ll need a lot of paperwork. And one of those documents is a passport for your car: a Carnet the Passage 🌍

We needed this temporary import document in places like Iran, Iraq and Kuwait. You have to stamp it at the borders upon entry and exit, to prove your car has entered ánd left those countries customs zone. This is to prevent illegal car imports 🚑💨

Getting this document is an expensive deal, as we had to pay a deposit equal to the value of our car to the provider of this document: the German automobile club ADAC 🇩🇪

Now that we returned to Europe, we got our Carnet stamped one final time at the Dutch customs department, to prove the car is back home 🇳🇱 And then send this Carnet back to Germany.

This is a big moment. Not only because it marks the end of the trip for our car, but also because we can finally get our deposit back 💸

#overlanding #carnetthepassage #overlandjournal
Update: we’ve officially moved into a house agai Update: we’ve officially moved into a house again! 🏠 Swipe 👉

After almost two years of sleeping in our beloved Mercedes we are now living in a brick house again. And surprisingly, we like it 😍

Life in the van felt amazing! We slept at the most beautiful, remote and crazy places. Including next to a burning gas crater🔥, waking up between camels or hundreds of miles away from any civilization. 

The most heard question here in the Netherlands is: how is it to be back? Well, pretty good. Of course a house is definitely more boring, but at the same time we love the comfort. And after two years all the vanlife adventure is a bit like when you’re eating french fries everyday: at some point you want something else, and you’ll appreciate those vegetables again 😂

It also helps that we got our old home back, including our furniture, big vegetable garden and of course a proper place to park our van waiting for the next adventure 🚑

#dutchroamers #vanlifenl #overlandlife
Mongolia is one of those countries that has challe Mongolia is one of those countries that has challenges ahead if you go with your own car. Snow, heat, mechanical issues and river crossings are all part of life here. But it’s totally worth it if you ask us! 

#overlanding #mongoliatravel #vanlife
That time we drove to the Dakar rally 🤩 The wo That time we drove to the Dakar rally 🤩

The worlds biggest offroad-race took off again in Saudi Arabia and seeing the trucks, motorbikes and rally cars dashing through the sand instantly brings back memories of last year 🐪😍

As the route is a carefully kept secret until the actual day of the race, finding the waypoints and bivouacs was a challenge 🧭 But we quickly made friends who helped us out. Navigator @jolene.4x4 shared a lot of routes with us and explained the navigation systems in one of the trucks 🗺️ Our friend @aedanjordan hooked us up with wristbands for the bivouacs.

It gave us the opportunity to meet the riders in Riyadh, and to get a fresh salmon dinner when we accidentally bumped into the rally camp while traversing the worlds biggest sand desert: Saudi Arabia’s Empty Quarter ☀️

All in all seeing this event close up last year was a dream come true. The speed, the noise and the endurance that participants bring to this race is incredible. We’ll definitely watch it again this year, but from a new perspective 🖥️

Do you watch the Dakar Rally? 🏁

#dakarrally #overlanding #ksa
Driving home for Christmas 🚑🎄 This songs fi Driving home for Christmas 🚑🎄

This songs fits us now more than ever, as we drove all the way from Mongolia to the Netherlands to see our family and friends during the holidays 🥰

Last year we spent Christmas alone in a remote desert in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 It was an amazing experience to be there between beautiful rock formations, but it also made us realize how important it is to spend these days with your friends and loved ones 🌴

That moment we decided that we would be with our family this year. So we had great joy in buying a Christmas tree (can you spot it on the car?), decorating the house and seeing our friends again ✨

#drivinghomeforchristmas #christmastree #overlandlife
After… 75.000 kilometers 7500 liters of diesel After…

75.000 kilometers
7500 liters of diesel
4655 meters max altitude
633 days of travel
603 nights of wildcamping
50 degrees max temperature
43 bordercrossings
27 countries
15 garage visits
10 recoveries
9 different timezones
1 traffic/parking fine
0 bribes

…and countless amazing experiences we are finally back in our home country: the Netherlands 🇳🇱 

These statistics surpassed our wildest dreams and we visited places that we never expected to see with our own eyes 🚑💨

It made us look different at the world, but also at our home country. We are very happy with some things here, but there is also a lot we can learn from other countries across the world 🌏

Although we are now back in the Netherlands, the trip is not fully over. We continue living in the van for some time untill we have a house and work. So for now we’ll keep rocking the spirit of #vanlife 😉

#overlanding #vanlifeeurope #vanlifenederland
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