The Gibb River Road is a 670 km long road which was constructed for cattle road trains. It is only accessible during the dry season (April – October). To drive on this road, a high clearance four wheel drive (4WD) is required. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any other tourists undertaking the same trip. So I had no possibility to get a lift or to share the cost of a rental 4WD. Nevertheless, I decided to rent a Nissan Patrol and go for the four day journey on my own – including the Bungle Bungle Ranges, if time permits. When the lady at the rental agency asked me whether I had driven a four wheel drive car before, I became...

Crossing the continents by going from Chang Mai and Bangkok in Thailand via Singapore to Darwin in Australia, was – well – very much uneventful. Chiang Mai is definitely a nice city. However, it does not measure up to other sites throughout China, Cambodia and Laos. Being somewhat at the end of my Southeast Asian journey, I found this place to be far from being special (or: important). The days of the “Golden Triangle” – a description for an Opium producing region that attracted crowds of tourists – are definitely over. The government of Thailand aggressively fights against all drug trafficking and has...