News – June 2008 (Tauranga/New Zealand, June 27, 2008)
- Website statistics: In May we were able to welcome on our website 52'947 visitors who did 1'445'085 hits.
- (April = 55'748 visitors – 1'579'212 hits)
- The visitors are coming from about 100 to 118 different countries!
- Record day since 12/17/1998 - the birthday of our website: 11/5/2007 = 13'407 visitors and 787'456 hits
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- Since a few days, our New Zealand round trip is "completed" and we are back in Tauranga, 130 miles Southeast of
- Auckland. Altogether we drove 6'800 miles within 4 months and got a good overview from New Zealand, both from the
- South and the North Island. We can recommend the country to everybody, who wants to explore a lot of nature –
- although it has its price tag, but the countervalue will be received! We try to display a touch on our picture websites
- part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 and part 6. New Zealand will be left with mixed feelings: Reluctantly, because the
- time spent here and which run off so quickly offered so many beauties of nature that might not return very soon again;
- happily, because the current prevailing wintry climate with its rain, wind and clammy temperatures is causing us a few
- problems. New Caledonia – our next destination –, which is situated North of the Tropic of Capricorn and ought to be
- "really" subtropical, should definitely be warmer.
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- Currently, we are organizing the continuation of our journey through the Pacific. Due to
the ongoing fuel price hikes, we
don't have yet a final quote from the shipping lines, but it looks now very much that our LandCruiser will be put mid July
into the13th container to be sent to Nouméa in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia – our 160th country.
Meanwhile, we'll fly with Air Vanuatu a detour via Port Vila on the island of Efate in Vanuatu, the former English-French
condominium of the New Hebrides, where we would like to organize the entry of our car into its following country, the
161st.
New Reports/Pictures
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| + our New Zealand Trip, 6th part | North Island – June+July 2008 |
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| + our New Zealand Trip, 5th part | North Island – May+June 2008 |
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| + our New Zealand Trip, 4th part | South to North Island – May 2008 |
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| + our New Zealand Trip, 3rd part | South Island – April 2008 |
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| + our New Zealand Trip, 2nd part | South Island – March 2008 |
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| + our New Zealand Trip, 1st part | South Island – Febr.+March 2008 |
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| + our Hong Kong Trip | Hong Kong – Dec. 2007+Jan. 2008 |
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| + our Taiwan Trip, 3rd part | Taipei-Taitung-Kaohsiung – Nov. 2007 |
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| + our Taiwan Trip, 1st part | Kaohsiung-Kenting-Taitung – Oct. 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 6th part | Kalimantan – July 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, within the 5th part | Tana Toraja (Toraja-Land) – June+July 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 5th part | Sulawesi – June+July 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 4th part | Sumba, West Timor – May+June 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 3rd part | Lombok, Sumabawa, Flores – April 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 2nd part | Bali – Jan.-March 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 1st part | Sumatra, Java – Dec. 2006 |
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| + our Borneo Trip | Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah, Kalimantan – Sept.-Nov. 2006 |
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| + our LandCruiser on a "Rejuvenation Cure" | in Miri/Sarawak - the East Malaysian province on Borneo Engine/Body: June-Aug. 2006/Transmission: Sept. 2007 |
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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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