6am, still dark, -20°C, heavy snowfall - we are leaving Almaty heading north towards Siberia – the real adventure begins! It is day 67 of our journey to Brazil and it feels odd to think about the goal of our journey .....
The alarm clock rudely draws me out of deep sleep, it is 2am and I need a moment to come to terms with why it is ringing in the middle of the night. Then I remember
— we didn’t manage to get a garage for Pele.....
The little boy is sitting completely
naked on his camp chair in the cozy yurt, transfixed by the cartoon he is watching on the satellite TV programme. Every now and then, his energy level bursts......
In front of us, a vast white expanse looms to the horizon. Our guide Alexander points straight ahead and with some anxiety, we move onto the ice. Finally, our dream comes true – we are driving ....
The endless Siberian Taiga seems to swallow us, covered in snow and dotted with dense forests of fir and beech trees. Several hours ago we passed through the last village and there is hardly any traffic ....
Looking out of the window of our hotel room, I can see the sunrise over the Amur River, one of Siberia’s major rivers, and on
the other side — China! It is day 90 of our journey from.....
Wie sich das wohl anfühlt? Reisen bei minus 40 Grad. In Sibirien,so verrät uns Florian Keller kurz vorseiner Abreise, erwarte ihn der kältesteund, weil er hofft, spannendste, weil unberechenbarste Teil ....
When arriving from Vladivostok at the port of Sakaiminato in Japan, the ferry representative informs me that officially I am not allowed to drive a Kenyan registered vehicle on Japanese roads .....
You either love it or hate it – the experience at one of Tokyo’s Capsule Hotels. We had heard about this unique form of lodging and decided to give it a try. Shinjuku! .....
Friday night on Hollywood Boulevard – a tremendous buzz and excitement all around: people taking pictures on the Walk of Fame posing next to the star of their
favourite singer or actor .....
The early morning light sends
rays of silver through the forest
canopy, furtive monkeys shriek and catapult themselves through the treetops while countless birds give a dazzling early morning concert .....
The early morning light sends
rays of silver through the forest
canopy, furtive monkeys shriek and catapult themselves through the treetops while countless birds give a dazzling early morning concert .....
Nicaragua and Costa Rica - I had very diverging images of these two Central American countries bordering each other. Nicaragua - a country known for
all the wrong reasons: Zomoza Dictatorship,Sandinista .....
It’s 6am, the sun is just rising above the beautiful town of Cartagena in northern Co-lombia – more than 33,000km and 166 days after our start in Nairobi. We are setting out for the last part of our journey ....
Shuffling slowly through the street, the old lady carries a heavy suitcase and a small stool in her hand. She is blind and carefully
examines the ground with her long stick before making ....
Two thousand metres below, a river rages through the valley floor. The sheer cliff next to the road without
any shield whatsoever makes my stomach churn — what was I thinking when climbing onto Pele’s roof ....
11pm, it is freezing cold and I am sitting in an internet cafe on the Plaza Central, battling with agonizing internet speed. We are in Puquio, a tiny village which sits high up at 3400 meters in a remote part of the Andes in Southern Peru. .....
Day 198 and only 700km to the Brazilian border. Today, we plan to push all the way to the small Bolivian border town, and tomorrow we hope to cross the border to Brazil — four days to go to the start of the World Cup! .....
I am writing this on June 10, two days to the start of the World Cup, on the request of my editor in Nairobi. I am seated in the back of Pele, our expedition vehicle, with vast wetlands of Brazil's .....
Florian Keller betreibt in Nairobi eine Reiseagentur, nun hat er Kenia verlassen und reist per Jeep mit seinem Team bis nach Rio de Janeiro. Pünktlich zum Anpfiff der WM will er dort sein .....
Some 200 days and 44,000km after leaving Nairobi, we finally reach Rio de Janeiro, one day after the start of the World Cup. With football fans from around the world, we celebrate on Copacabana .....
Late at night in the middle of nowhere in the Brazilian Northeast, we are on our way from Salvador
to Fortaleza and decide to have a short break at a small roadside restaurant ....
June 28, 3:05pm, Downtown Recife – normally, chaos and heaving activity reign at this time of the day, but now there is not a single car on the road. Reason? The Selecaõ, the Brazilian national team ....
AHEAD, the first light of the day paints the sky in a light grey, a relief after driving the last 12 hours through pitch black darkness. We are on our way to Rio deJaneiro. It is 5:30am and we ....
Rio de Janeiro, July 13, 2014 — it
feels like an unreal dream that i am
on my way to the final of the 2014
Football World Cup, cheering for my
country as they take on Argentina. ....
When Florian Keller came up with the idea of a road trip from Nairobi to Rio de Janeiro for the 2014 World Cup, some people thought it was crazy and impractical. However,
the 41-year-old ....
