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Rallye Aicha des Gazelles
Rallye Aicha des Gazelles is an all-women’s rally through southern Morocco, the aim of which is not speed but navigating the shortest distance between points. Competitors in the nine-day rally may...
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Four-Minute World Tour: Welcome to Earth
Canadian video editor Luc Bergeron sampled almost 180 clips to create this 4-minute trip around the world. He mated the fast-paced, quick-cutting footage to a haunting song called “Wolf” by the...
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YouTube Find: Killer Catfish
Sometimes nature can be so devious. Check out how fiendishly catfish in Africa’s Lake Tanganyika prey on the neighboring cichlids. Unbelievable! Filed under: - Armchair Travel, - Videos, Africa,...
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Expeditions 7, An Around-the-World Adventure
Scott Brady, founder Expedition Portal and publisher of the Overland Journal, headed out last month on a two-year trip he and his team are calling Expeditions 7, in which they’ll cover some of the...
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2CV Moto Mash-down
A mash-up is a familiar concept: combine two disparate elements to create something new. But what if you start with one thing throw away half of it? Case in point: I came across this amazing story...
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Don’t Leave Without Me!
Sometimes you see really cute stuff on the trail, like a baby elephant running to catch up with its herd. Link trail: Dump > YouTube Filed under: - Armchair Travel, - Tanzania, Africa, FEATURES,...
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Desert Pinzgauer
Just a Pinzgauer 718K heading over the horizon in Tunisia. Filed under: - Trucks, - Tunisia, - Videos, Africa, MEDIA, PLACES, VEHICLES Tagged: 4x4, 6x6, 712, 712K, 718, 718K, Africa, desert, off-road,...
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Things You Can Do in a Land Rover: Save a Baby Elephant
Here a team from a Kenyan group called Amboseli Trust for Elephants put their Land Rover Defenders to use pulling an eight-month-old elephant out of a well. I don’t know if it’s the same baby elephant...
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Armchair Travel: Tunisia
There’s a company in the UK called Rugged Guide. As far as I can tell, they’re jack-of-all-trades overlanders. They sell ex-military Land Rovers, the have some some instructional DVDs and they...
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How to Africanize Your Photos
Couldn’t make to Africa for the big safari this year? You could still send out an awesome photo in your Christmas cards with some simple Africanization. Start with a nice sunset photo, amp up the...
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Spotted: 2013 Range Rover
Read the whole post here. I have no idea what this Dutch journalist is saying about the 2013 Range Range but, of all of the coverage I’ve seen of the vehicle’s Moroccan press junket, his video has...
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Ray Mears: Desert Survival
Here’s an informative video on 4×4-based desert survival, including tips and tricks for sand driving. It also tells the tales of others that have been trapped in the desert and made it out alive, and...
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Morocco to Mongolia by Land Rover
In 1993 three friends from New Zealand set out from Morocco on what would become an eight-year, eleven-part adventure through Africa, the Middle East, India, China, and Mongolia. In their travels they...
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Vintage Video: Honda Africa Twin
The other day I posted about the Africa Twin and its 25-year history. Today I have some vintage video for you of both the 650 and 750 versions of the bike in its glory days. The first two videos are...
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1978 Porsche 911 SC ‘Safari’
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Porsche’s dynamic and durable 911. Despite being a tarmac legend, the 911 did venture off-road on occasion. Case in point, this Porsche 911 SC ‘Safari’,...
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Petrol / Food / Beer
. I found this great video on Expo the other day. In 1995 Austin Vince and seven friends went traveling around the world on motorcycles along the longest route possible. They started in their home...
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Motonomad, Austria to Egypt on KTM 500EXCs
This promo film is amazing. Two guys, Adam Riemann and his friend Mark, ride two KTM 500EXCs 7,000kms (4,350 miles) from Austria to Egypt in 32 days days, filming as they go. They have no support crew...
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Lions – The New Endangered Species?
Ride along with Kevin Richardson and GoPro to see lions up close and personal. It’s amazing to see a person with such a close relationship with the lions he raised as young. Kevin works to preserve...
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Riding Skills: Adventure Motorcyling
The other day I posted about enduro riding techniques. This post is all about adventure riding skills. One set of resources is the video viewer above. It contains an entire playlist of 26 videos on...
View ArticleAfrican Adventure Book Kickstarter
This English couple has written a photo book about their 5-month trip, north to south, through Africa. To do it they bought an 80-series Land Cruiser which they named “Indlovu,” the unstoppable...
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