A friend of mine offered me the great opportunity to join him, his brother and some more friends for a three week off road trip into the western peripheral area of the Sahara in southern Tunisia. There was no real need to ponder hard about it… So Team Viltovergang was revived for another thrilling trip!
Right on my check in dive in Soma Bay at Marsa Alam (Red Sea) we encountered a superfly turtle. It was reaaally curious and fearless and gave the dive guide a highfive and swam away cool as an ice bear’s butt. So here’s the short vid:
Here are the highlights of my one week trip with the Seven Seas to the Brother islands, Elphinstone Reef and Daedalus Reef. It was a joyful voyage, a great time with nice and friendly people and thrilling and fascinating wildlife encounters!
This year I decided not to spent Xmas in cold, snowy and cloudy Germany, but to head to a tropic destination. So I picked Ellaidhoo in the Ari Atoll as the house reef there was described to be a good spot for large fish and there a was a properly kept diving base. Hearing of my plans my kindergarten fella Read More ...
This is my personal bucketlist of (some) dream destination, spectaculae, awesome or dangerous things I definitely want do do, dream of doing, want to attend or experience before I get transferred into another sphere of consciousness: Climb the Alpspitz ferrata Attend the Palio in Siena Freak out at the Burning Man Observe a tiger in his natural habitat (Siberia or Read More …
The Orca Divebase in Soma Bay near Safaga at the Red Sea, Egypt is a safe bet, as I already been there and was amazed by their quality of service, but this time I tried the Breaker’s Hotel for accomodation. My final verdict is that the Breaker’s is a fine alternative to the Sheraton for lodging while diving with the Read More …
Albania turned out to be great destination a country with beautiful and yet wild nature and affectionate, hospital and helpful people. We found great camping sites and tricky offroad tracks there! Read More …
This is a short timelapse video of a beautiful sunset over the Kochelsee in Bavaria, taken from the balcony of my room of the Hotel “Grauer Bär”. Hope you enjoy it!
I feel a little sad as will not attend the Sziget Festival for the second year. The nine years from 2006 to 2014 I always spent a week on the Obudai sziget (sziget actually means island). It was great to see this festival rise to the biggest (and once even voted the best) music festivals in Europe. Great due to Read More …
Reit im Winkl – rather known as skiing spot – has a new summer attraction: a nice via ferrata! As the setting is beautiful, right along a waterfall, the access is easy and it is not very long, I gathered some friends to check it out. Location: Reit im Winkl, Hausbachfall Duration: Ascend: 1h 30m, Descend: 30m Difficulty: B/C The Read More …
The next stint lead from Sur via Shannah to Masirah Island. We fancied crossing the enormous dune south-west of Al Kamil Wal Wafi, but we had to catch the ferry in Shannah departing at 15:00. Unfortunately we could not cross these beautiful dunes, the sand field is truly large, check it out in satellite view in google maps. When I Read More …
As I got me a new mountain bike, I was looking a comfortable tour on a beginner level due to my lack of endurance. For a long time I hadn’t been at the Sylvenstein Reservoir so I decided to go there. The tour nicely starts along the Isar followed by a passage along the B13. After that you need to Read More …
I was startled by an intimidating roar! Then I hardly couldn’t believe my eyes as I just saw Optimus Prime followed by Bumblebee and the Decepticon Barricade passing by!!! Read More …
Being one of the spots where you can encounter or even dive with hump back whales the Sultanate of Oman caught my interest quite quick. As there is just one boat, the Saman Explorer, at the moment having a license for dive safaris around the coast of Oman, the decision was not hard either. So after I finished the Read More …