The Gearbox gave us a hard time in our last part of the Trip, it became so noisy that speaking was impossible. So we had to search a place to operate our old Landrover. Dissamble the Gearbox and order some parts in last minute. We waitet for about two weeks in Buenos Aires and forget our problems while partying in a hostel with other tourists. Days became night and night became days but as soon we had the box we went up to our car and rebuild the gearbox for the last time. In three days we get everything together made a service, replace crossjoints and some rubber things and the landrover is now ready as never before. The Gearbox makes no noise at all and our trip can be finished as we wished to. Thankfully we found a lot of new friends in San Antonio de Areco who supportet us with room, tools and helping information.

Our Trip get little bit shortcuttet, because of the shipping schedule and we can not see such many things we wish to. Soon a container will bring us back to europe and our trip will end, but untill then we will deliver you some impressive pictures from some special corners in this beautiful world. Thanks very much to all the friendly argenine people to support our dreams and special thanks to Jose Luis to have a lot of patience with us finishing the work.
stay tuned for more information

TAGBLATT SCHWEIZ

REVISTA SUIZA COLOMBIA

We arrived with a noisy Gearbox in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. The long drive from santiago de Chile endet up here with a lot of noise from our gearbox, we couldn`t even speak anymore with each other. The noise gets more and more, because we didn`t know where to go we posted a “help us” in a landrover forum from argentina. in short time we had many people reading it and answer some suggestions. Some offered us to come to their place and work on the car for the next week. So we do and dissambled the gearbox in the same day. One whole day of driving over 600 Kilometer and after work on the car untill 4 o clock in the morning. We found out the source of the noise. a bering was getting broken so it produces a lot of noise while turning. We have to replace these, so we will stay about one week at least in Buenos Aires to wait for the Parts. Thanks to the friendly people in Argentina so we will be in good hands again…

We are since three days at lake titicaca and been diving at 3810 meters altitude for just one dive. Because we can not fill our bottles here around. In Puno we asked the local firefighters who need to have compressed air tanks to enter the burning buildings but them as well not have the possibility [...]

New Pictures online of our travels with our friend Benno from Columbia to Ecuador our adventuring mine sightseeing and the fun we have on the road with our Swissfriends and our friend from Australia who drives with his Ford Bronco from Alaska to Fireland.
Few days ago we crossed the Boarder from Ecuador to Peru. It [...]

Tomorrow we will digging for gold in a small Goldmine in Zaruma Ecuador. Here in this famous area the spanish colonial people where digging for gold allready many years ago and at the 1900 the north americans brought some big machinery to go for more gold than ever.
There are still several mines going and they [...]

So many things where not shure in the last days, but soon we will continue our travels direction ecuador.
In Cali we waited for some spare parts from england, but the post here is not so fast so the letter is still somewhere no body knows.
We been invited to stay with a friend here in Cali [...]

Long time without news from us. too busy to write about our travels. Well arrived in columbia as you saw and on the road again with our Landrover. First of all we changed our Trailer a little bit, So we can mount our Boogie Boat on top of it and let it inflated for more easy handling. As well there are only natural Gas stations in the country but we need Propan Gas so we had to buy a bottle modificate it and put on the trailer as well. The best is check one of the new albums in the gallery. It explains more than words.
After this we made our way to Baranquilla where we was lucky to catch up with the start of the Carnevall. The 4 Hours Parade was good fun to see and the croud get`s more crazy with more aguadiente (local anis liquor). The Peninsula Guiajira atracts us to see the nontouristy places of this beautiful country so we drove with a other traveler from australia and his truck a 600Km roundtrip to the nowhere. Sandy dusty tracks and a lot of crossings where we only navigated with compas. Sometimes we meet a local to ask directions. There was no spanish anymore and the indinegous people could help us only a bit. At least we arrived at the northest point in south america. To get back to civilisation we managed to cross the green boarder to Venezuela. Only some locals told us that we are in a new country.
Lucky chavez didn`t catched us so we went directly back to the columbian side.
All the supply on the penninsula from Beer to Gasoline was from Venezuela, so that gaves us a reason to fill up our tanks and get some spare 400liter fuel for approximetly 150 dollar. Nice deal!
In the capital City we found back to civilisation.
Here we meet the Koller family from appenzell from Koyomad and he spoiled us with tasty swiss meet products, like Fleischchäs, Brotwurscht, Cervelat, Landjäger etc. The swiss bucher who is since 1961 here in columbia invited us to see his factory where the delicious and high quality products are made since 1969.
After two days of cleaning and welding the Landrover we are ready on the road again and heading direction south…
In Front of the Factory where 170 workers produce delicious swiss specialyties