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A small Citroen with the hydraulic suspension on high position came surprisingly close to a true 4WD, - on some of the worst roads of Swaziland, Botswana, SWA/Namibia and the South African Republic.
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Joining friends (and other individuals..) from a club for expedition travels for some rough expeditions, cruising through heavy sand, unviable rocks, and nothings of a track. Heavy challenges for the 4WD drivers, and equally for the cameras on board.
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Sidesteps from skin diving expeditions to the Red Sea. It was the ideal time - the Israelis were just to leave, and the Egyptians had not yet started to destroy the great wilderness by hotel chains and other touristic trash.
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| COSTA RICA | "A 4WD with high ground clearence is essential" was stated in the excellent Moon Travel guidebook for a track down to the Pacific coast. Thank goodness the economy size rental car did not know about this... | |
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The Wild West meant freedom, nature and adventure. Again some inferior rental cars went beyond their virtual capacity, surviving gigantic forests, endless deserts, rocky gorges, and, pretty close, a number of swamps. Sadly the former "land of the free" is in respect of visitors still suffering from a time of political disability and abuse.
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Donkey tracks as the only access to the last refuges of a rare species birds of prey and many other endangered species - again a must for a high clearence cross country vehicle. Science meets adventure...
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| ROMANIA | The "Wild East of Europe" offers unexpected freedom, responsibility and selfsufficiency. Despite many centuries of cultivation the country still bears the adventure to discover it's strong and undestroyed nature. | |
| KARPATIAN MNTs. | 4WD competitions in the way of an expedition to the unknown: to the Karpatian mountains in all their beauty and remoteness - and a big touch of freedom in this world so often ruled by a bunch of shabby burocrats. (Film Information) | |
| UKRAINE | A torture for the trucks close to the limits of the possible... The winter was just loosing it's grip towards a mixture of ice, mud and puddles - certainly a guaranty to meet some widely unspoiled wilderness. | |
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An area creating ambiguous feelings - half seems destroyed by exploitation, half forbitten. But there are still regions which allow a reasonable amount of freedom, as remote and difficult to access that you need a 4WD too.
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| COMPETITIONS | Adventure Trophy 1997 and Expedition Trophy 1999 - as well as some other similar events in Romania - were covered by CAM 3001 so far, the first in a huge five camera enterprise, the latter ones including an even increasing bunch of very specially adaptated equipment. - True tasks for the expedition vehicles - and for the film team as well. | |
 
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| Here was a LINK to that ... | association for individual travelling mentioned above |
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