Ondjiva, Angola – Windhoek, Namibia. Namibia is weird and wonderful – but our trip comes to a sudden halt: one of our Honda CRF300 Rallys has an engine failure.

Pointe-Noire, Congo – Ondjiva, Angola. Mountains, beaches, gravel and good food: Angola has everything a motorcycle traveler can wish for.

Ntam, Congo – Pointe-Noire, Congo. In Congo, our motorcycles continue to misbehave.

Idenau, Cameroon – Ntam, Congo. Crooks, corruption, sputtering engines and beautiful landscapes: Cameroon throws a lot at us.

Akraké, Benin – James Town, Nigeria. Traveling through Nigeria is an intense experience. We hurry eastwards.

Dahomey, Benin – Akraké, Benin. It’s only a quick visit to Benin, but an enjoyable one.

Dzodze, Ghana – Dahomey, Benin. We’re in Togo for a short time only and battle bureaucracy – but that’s not the fault of the Togolese.

Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast – Dzodze, Ghana. Ghana is the second English-speaking country of our trip – and maybe the most Christian of them all.

Nzérékoré, Guinea – Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast. Perfect tarmac and some astonishing sights: Ivory Coast is quite different from Guinea.

Fongolembi, Senegal – Nzérékoré, Guinea. Guinea is beautiful but provides us with a few unforeseen challenges.

Sabi, The Gambia – Fongolembi, Senegal. A constitutional crisis looms in Senegal, changing our plans slightly.

Toubakouta, Senegal – Sabi, The Gambia. A small country with a big river and beautiful nature. We like it.

Saint-Louis, Senegal – Toubakouta, Senegal. Not more of the same: Having left the Sahara behind, Senegal feels different from the countries we’ve been to on this trip so far.

Bir Gandouz, Morocco – Saint-Louis, Senegal. Mauritania is one of the world’s least visited countries, so we didn’t really know what to expect – besides sand. And there is plenty of sand indeed. It’s still the Sahara, after all.

Tafraout, Morocco – Bir Gandouz, Morocco. As we make our way south, the landscape changes completely: We enter the Sahara.

Genova, Italy – Tafraout, Morocco. A looong ferry ride lies behind us. We start to explore Morocco – and are impressed by its beauty.

Berlin, Germany – Genova, Italy. After months of planning, we’re officially on our way.

From Berlin to Cape Town, that’s the plan. A damn good one if you ask us (but we might be slightly biased).

Mount Fuji, Japan - Tokyo, Japan.
Woohoo!
 

Sakaiminato, Japan - Mount Fuji, Japan. Japan is unique - and a great country to explore on a motorcycle. If you escape the traffic. 

Six months, Germany to Japan, with two brand new motorcycles: KTM 1290 Super Adventure R and KTM 1090 Adventure R. On a trip like this, your bike becomes your partner. Scenes from a happy marriage.

Vladivostok, Russia - Donghae, South Korea - Sakaiminato, Japan. On our last days in Russia, we get in trouble with the law - but manage to catch a ferry.

Magadan, Russia - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia - Vladivostok, Russia. Since we started this trip in April, we got used to riding our bikes almost everyday. But there's no road leading out of Magadan except the one we came on. So we slightly changed our traveling mode.

Yakutsk, Russia - Magadan, Russia. Between the world's coldest city and Magadan lie 2000 kilometers of dirt road: We head east on the famous Kolyma Highway, also known as Road of Bones.

Irkutsk, Russia - Yakutsk, Russia. Less cities, more nature: the landscape gets lonelier. Still we're far from being isolated on these dusty gravel roads. The Siberian people are very friendly to us. Especially the bikers.

Altanbulag, Mongolia - Irkutsk, Russia. On our return to Siberia it is hot and sunny. Lake Baikal is huge and enormously beautiful. And cold enough to remind us, where we are.   

Khyargas Lake, Mongolia - Altanbulag, Mongolia. We continue to cross Mongolia on the middle route. The gravel is great and the sand, well, it's part of the adventure. Mongolia surely is one of the highlights of our trip so far.

Kosch-Agatsch, Russia - Khyargas Lake, Mongolia. No streets, no fences - in Mongolia you can go wherever you want. It's the perfect place for motorcycling. But nobody said it was easy.

Semey, Kazakhstan - Kosch-Agatsch, Russia. Berlin is only 626 kilometers away from Kaliningrad but we chose the long way to Russia: After 20.000 kilometers we're finally there. Siberia is green, vast and beautiful.

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan - Semey, Kazhakstan. Kazhakstan is a country of straight roads and big distances.