Hubers go Africa
Travelling in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ready to go. Almost …
We spend two nights at Kili-House. On the one hand because nine months in a dusty garage makes a basic cleaning of Toyo necessary. Plus we have to buy the compulsory insurances, pay road tolls and stockpile beer, wine, water as well as noodles, apples, cookies as well as …. We only drove 5 km…
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Back again
We’re back in Africa. „We“ – that’s a small team this year: Lore, Walter and Toyo. who celebrated (really?) his 30th birthday in April. In a garage at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro together with other two- and four-wheeled off-roaders from Toyota, Rover and BMW. „Africa“ – means only two countries this year, Tanzania and…
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Time for memories
We’re back home again. A big thank you goes to the team with Martina, Lore and Ernst for new numerous and shared adventures, another conflict-free journey and for the continuation of our friendship. Thanks also to the many people who gave us nice, exciting and informative encounters. And last but not least thanks to the many…
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Entebbe
Entebbe, the former capital of Uganda, went through the world press when in 1976 the Israeli army ended a week-long airplane-hijacking by Palestinian and German terrorists. Allegedly support for the terrorists came from the Ugandan government under Idi Amin. What hardly anyone knows, however, is that in the 1930s, outdoor footage of the Tarzan films…
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A friend on four wheels
„7 countries in 77 days“ meant not only for us the one or other hard exercise. Our two Landcruisers managed some ascents only in the first gear, some steep slopes only with the gear reduction. But they managed it. Without breakdowns. If something broke, then it was the refrigerator or the compressor. Not the cars…
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Another school – another million smiles
Together with Anke, Diana and Efantus, we travel to a school outside Kampala that also benefits from the microcredits program supported by the Merck Family Foundation: Opportunity bank gives loans to schools to invest in quality and microloans to parents to finance school fees. Once again we are impressed by a dynamic headmistress, or rather,…
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Kampala meets Black Forrest
Winston Churchill called Uganda the „pearl of Africa“ because of its natural resources. Idi Amin’s reign of terror in the 70s and the civil wars in the 80s took much of the glimmer. How would be the core of the pearl, Kampala? After leaving the White Nile, we fought our way through chaotic Tuk-tuk (three-wheel…
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A school in Uganda
The Merck Family Foundation, through Opportunity International (and together with the British Ministry of Development), is supporting a project that gives 56,000 Ugandan children the best possible conditions to complete school. We are attending „Day Star Junior School“ that started in 2012 with 40 students and now teaches 668 children – and are bursting into…
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Behind the scenes
We arrived safe and well in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. John, an Englishman living here for 41 years and now as a retiree active as advisor to the NGO Opportunity International (more on this coming soon) helped us to find a nice hotel. Days that are necessary to drive with our Landcruiser to the workshop…
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Birds only
Because the White Nile is a bird paradise, today’s blog post is for the hobby ornithologists among our readers. … Und weil wir am Weißen Nil in einem Vogelparadies sind, gibt es heute mal einen Blogpost für die Hobby-Ornithologen unter unseren Leserinnen und Lesern. Eine kleine Auswahl der zu Pixeln gewordenen fotografischen Ambitionen von Ernst…