News – September 2008 (Port Vila/Vanuatu, September 30, 2008)
- Website statistics: In August we were able to welcome on our website 26'352 visitors who did 955'161 hits.
- (July = 30'428 visitors – 1'057'757 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 our News in August, we traveled – besides the South of New Caledonia – also the North and covered meanwhile
- more than 1'250 miles. Thereby, we discovered so many beautiful spots that we were able to put a second picture site
- online. Because the sojourn of three months in New Caledonia is rather a short one, we are already organizing the next,
- respectively the one after next destination: Vanuatu and Fiji. Although we didn't receive yet all the paperwork for the entry
- to Vanuatu with the ferry "MV Havannah", it seems however that this is feasible – even if it's very expensive. Fiji on the
- other hand, after some very positive initial contacts, appears to have suddenly some difficulties with the entry of our vehicle.
- However, the visit of Vanuatu is only paid off if we are able to combine it with the continuation from Port Vila to Fiji.
- Unfortunately, our current non-extendable stay puts us under time pressure, because in the event of a Fijian negative
- verdict, our Pacific journey would end unintentionally premature. It's not only the huge areal distances within the Pacific
- region, but also the political, linguistical and climatological conditions that are of great significance, along with a nearly
- protectionist isolation caused either by the everywhere dominant, paranoiac anxiety to become polluted biologically, or
- simply due to an egoistically, mafia-like marketing behavior. As long as there are still enough solvent tourists ready to
- travel to these distant and beautiful, but disproportionately expensive places, it might still work out. In an eventual
- recession however, some of these "paradises" might then again be more ready to enable us a smooth and trouble-free
- visit in its "empires" – why?: There are daily more than 1'000 visitors on our website who are looking at more than
- 30'000 of our beautiful shots, a fact of advertising effect not to been underestimated!
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| + our New Caledonia Trip, 3rd part | Grand Terre (North #2) – September 2008 |
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| + our New Caledonia Trip, 2nd part | Grand Terre (North #1) – Aug.+Sept. 2008 |
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| + our New Caledonia Trip, 1st part | Grand Terre (Nouméa + South) – August 2008 |
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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 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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