Happy Easter from Munich! Frohe Ostern aus München!

We are really back! When we landed it still felt a bit like landing on just another airport again. Sitting in the train home already started to feel a bit more German, but only when we were back in our flat and had our first German ‚Brotzeit‘ did it start to sink in that the year is truly over.

It will probably take another few weeks until we will be able to reflect properly on everything and we will then post a welcome back review for you :). Until then: It feels great to be home again.

Lieber Opa Täve,

wir wünschen Dir von Herzen alles Liebe und Gute zum 90ten Geburtstag! Wir sind gerade zurück auf dem Festland. Wir haben an deinem Geburtstag auf den Galapagos Inseln am Strand gesessen und an Dich gedacht.

90 Jahre zu werden ist eine Meisterleistung und dabei noch so gut auszusehen erst recht! Wir bewundern Dich für dein bewegtes Leben und wünschen Dir auch weiterhin viel Gesundheit und Lebensfreude. Wir freuen uns Dich bald wiederzusehen.

Alles Liebe,

Mathias und Natalie

Merry Christmas everyone!! We wish you all a relaxing holiday time with family and friends and send all our love to you from the Argentinian Lake District.

Natalie & Matze

We are on the road again! Our trip from the reserve in Limpopo region brought us through Kruger National Park.

We drove in at lunch time and had a campsite in the park booked to stay overnight.

We passed lots of buffalos and elephants and the other obvious antelopes. All went well until we hit a road block: a massive elephant bull was walking on the road looking quite upset and making a whole caravan of cars drive backwards trying to make space, including us.

It took about 30 minutes until there was a small side road where all cars backed into and the elephant finally walked past. Now we were in trouble though, as we had little time left to reach the campsite gate before they close.

Luckily we managed to get there 10 minutes before closure. We had some quick pasta for dinner and went right to sleep, as we had to get up at 4:30 to start driving again at 5:30. Despite some familiar sounds of spotted hyaenas during the night, we slept well and managed to leave on time.

We had 2 more hours of driving left in the park until we reached the southern exit. We had some beautiful rhino sightings in the morning light and also saw the tiniest baby warthogs ever!

After that it was a very long drive to KwaZulu-Natal where we went to go hiking in the Drakensberg mountain range. After 13 hours of driving, many road works, hundreds of potholes and one hubcap and many nerves less later, we arrived in KwaZulu-Natal!

Our first stop was the Royal Natal National Park, where we went fortday hike the following day. As I am writing this we just finished our second hike and are about to go on the third. We will post all about the hikes soon.

After 1 1/2 days journey, we finally arrived in the wilderness reserve in South Africa and already saw some zebras and giraffes on our first drive today :). Looking forward to two unforgettable weeks in the wilderness!