Feb 2, 2011

If you visit Thessaloniki these days, ask for Noesis Tech Park to see our car and more exciting exhibitions from the future

The trip of the Greek couple in the Land Rover Discovery, gets more and more exciting. After the safaris in Tanzania, they traveled through Uganda and Rwanda to Burundi and D.R.Congo before heading to the north, towards Addis Ababa, Khartoum and now for Cairo.
The last days of the year were difficult as exciting for the Greek journalist of 4Wheels magazine, Akis Temperidis, and his companion, choreographer Vula Netu, who drive through Africa for the last 270 days. The Greek expedition spent many days in East Africa for different reasons. They visited famous National parks, like Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Masai Mara and Amboseli. They crossed Rwanda and visited the genocide memorials of this hopeful country. They watched live the famous drummers of Burundi in Bujumbura and they had the best wildlife experience of their life, after a visit to the Kahuzi-Biega National park in D.R.Congo, for the mountain gorillas.
After this long painful trip, Akis and Vula drove back to Kenya, during the pre-election period. They left the country right before the elections that resulted in a bloodshed, as many feared in the most developed country of East Africa.

In Ethiopia, the Greek couple arrived safe and sound. After they drove to the Omo valley, in order to meet the Mursi and Mbanna people, they hit the road to Addis Ababa where they spent some days, waiting for the year 2008 to come and the complicate to issue visa for Sudan. After they got the visa, Akis and Vula drove towards Khartoum and from there to Wadi Halfa, where they got the old ferry to Aswan dam, through the lake Nasser. The Greek couple now heads to Cairo and from there to Alexandria in order to find a boat to cross the Mediterranean sea. They are expected to return to Greece at the beginning of February, for a break before the second stage of the trip, to South East Asia and Australia.

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Jan 1, 2011

You lost us a bit, we know, but we are settling down so our every day life is not as exciting as during our world trip. But no, this is not so true. If you see our life from the outside its pretty exciting.

Dec 16, 2010

Maybe you didn’t realised it but we feel as if we travel, as if we breath again since we landed at Dar es Salaam last Monday. We met our beloved friend Costas Coucoulis here and all his staff at the HQ of Saadani Safari Lodge.

On Tuesday we joined Mark Evans, the General Manager of Saadani Lodges and drove together to Saadani River Lodge, 110 km. north of Dar. It was a nice drive after Bagamoyo, a former slave trade center and fishing village today and a tricky one at the last section towards the lodge, which is built in the pristine jungle of Wami river.

This is a fabulous place which we are honoured to run with Vula as soon as it gets inaugurated, hopefully in the next month. We stayed three nights there in one of the hi end cottages overlooking the river and took an idea of the huge effort to create a lodge in this remote heaven of Africa.

We already feel excited and stressed with our new job. Our people here welcomed us in the best possible way, so hard work is the only way to please them for the trust they show to us. One of the most inspired, exciting lodges in all Africa is created here and we are already part of a great team that worked for a year or so.

A success story is in front of us, which means a great effort for both of us but the opportunity to live in the African bush is the best reward. We will keep updating the site from time to time till the new “theworldoffroad” will be inaugurated. Vertigo Studio works on the phase II of our site in Greece, so stay tuned folks!_A.Temperidis

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Dec 16, 2010

Aerial view of Wami River and Saadani River Lodge, Tanzania

Next Sunday Dec 5th we fly from Athens to Dar es Salaam. We decided to leave Greece for a while and go to work for a new project in Tanzania, a luxury safari lodge situated on the bank of Wami River at Saadani National Park. The name of the lodge is Saadani River Lodge and we are going to manage it as soon as it opens – possibly right after Christmas. This seems to be the perfect job in the world and a new challenge for both of us. Thanks to our good friend Costa, we decided to take a new turn in our lives and go to live in the pristine, tropical nature of Tanzania. In a way this is a new phase for TheWorldOffroad. From there we will keep up the good spirit and this website alive as well. Stay tuned!_A.Temperidis