1965: (Paul) First Journey with a VW Bus around the Meditteranean. After an engin breakdown we had to turn around at the Red Sea to reach Switzerland with the last pennies in our pocket …
1973 – 1974: (Paul) First journey through Africa with my brother and 2 LandRovers. We travelled through North-, West- and Central Africa to Kenya which was the turning point. The way back home through Ethiopia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and around the Mediterranean.
1978 – 1979: (Paul) Second journey through Africa with a 4 x 4 Toyota through Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and the Sudan.
1987-1988: (Brigitta) Studied for several months in Jacksonville, Florida and Berkley, California before travelling for a year through the United States of America (including Hawaii) and part of the Bahamas.
1993 – 1994: We have travelled and dived the whole Caribbean as crew members and diving instructors on the catamaran Extasi.
1994 – 1996: Our first journey together through Australia, Tasmania and Southern Africa with a Mitsubishi Pajero.
2001: Our Honeymoon journey through Argentina and Chile with our Mitsubishi Pajero, including a side trip to Antarctica on a Russian icebreaker.
2006 – 2013 – Circumnavigation: We traveled for 2’573 days around the world with our Toyota HZJ78 (Mahangu) and covered on this epic journey over 280’000 kilometers.
2017 – 2022: Early October 2017 we started our Bucket List Tour. Of course, with our proven Mahangu, which takes us through South and North America including a detour to South Gorgia and the Falkland Islands to Veracruz, Mexico. From there we ship to Walvis Bay, Namibia.
2022 – ….: We live now a life as Seminomads. We are based in Kandersteg, in the Bernese Oberland and in Swakopmund, Namibia. Mahangu now has 440,000 km on the clock and rests in the garage in between. Hopefully it will still accompany us for a long time on shorter trips to the southern part of africa.
