Lake Ngozi is an awe-inspiring emerald-green crater lake nestled within the Uporoto Ridge Forest Reserve, about 22 kilometres south of Mbeya at an altitude of 2.620 meters. Surrounded by steep, forested crater walls, it is Africa’s second-largest crater lake and one of the...
Mbeya is Tanzania’s vibrant “Green City,” nestled in the country’s southwestern highlands at an altitude of 1,700 metres. Known for its lush mountain scenery and cool climate, it serves as a major agricultural powerhouse and an important transit hub linking Tanzania with Zambia and Malawi...
We drove to the upper plateau of Jebel Samhan to stay overnight. It suddenly ends in a vertiginous drop of more than 1000 meters to the coastal plain below. Barely a ledge interrupts the vertical cliff, and it seems impossible that there should be any route down from here that...
We took the challenging Sarfait road in the morning, which links Salalah with the Yemeni border. It is one of Oman’s many impressive engineering projects. Zigzagging nearly 1000m from the Salalah Plain, it reaches the top of the cliff via 14 steep bends. A few kilometers beyond the...
We drove through the dramatic Al-Hajar Mountains Range from Nizwa to Jabal Akhdar, located on the Sayyaq Plateau. It is the highest mountain range within the eastern Arabian Peninsula, above 2,000 meters in elevation. Al-Ḥajar reaches its most significant height at Mount Shams (2,980...
On the way to the north, we stopped for a while at Voss Waterfall. Then we drove to Aurland from where we took a narrow and steep scenic route, which was not really made for trucks. We climbed up to the Stegastein View Point. This structure, which juts out 30 meters from the mountainside...