Double Dutch World Safari
  • LATEST UPDATE
  • ABOUT
  • OUR JOURNEY
    • AUSTRALIA & SOUTH PACIFIC
      • AUSTRALIA
        • Queensland
        • Northern Territory
        • Western Australia
        • South Australia
        • New South Wales & ACT
        • Victoria
        • Tasmania
      • SOUTH PACIFIC
        • Cook Islands
        • The Republic of Kirabati
        • New Zealand
        • Soloman Islands
        • Tahiti
    • AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST
      • AFRICA
        • NORTHERN AFRICA
          • Egypt
          • Morocco
          • Sudan
          • Western Sahara
        • WEST AFRICA
          • Benin
          • Bukina Faso
          • Ghana
          • Mali
          • Mauritania
          • Senegal
          • The Gambia
          • Togo
        • SOUTHERN AFRICA
          • Botswana
          • Lesotho
          • Mozambique
          • Namibia
          • South Africa
          • Swaziland
          • Zambia
          • Zimbabwe 2010-2015-2016
        • EAST AFRICA
          • Ethiopia
          • Kenya
          • Malawi 2010 & 2016
          • Rwanda
          • Tanzania
          • Uganda
      • MIDDLE EAST
        • Iran 2014
        • Jordan 2010
        • Saudi Arabia 2010
        • Syria 2010
        • United Arab Emirates
    • ASIA
      • SOUTH EAST ASIA
      • Cambodia
      • Indonesia
      • Laos
      • Malaysia
      • Singapore
      • Thailand
        • BORNEO
          • Brunei
          • Sabah
          • Sarawak
          • Kalimatan
      • FAR EAST ASIA
        • China
        • Japan
        • Mongolia
        • Russia 2011-2012-2013
        • Tibet
      • SUB CONTINENT
        • India
        • Nepal
        • Pakistan
      • CENTRAL ASIA
        • Kazakhstan
        • Kyrgyzstan
        • Tajikistan 2013
        • Uzbekistan 2013
    • AMERICAS
      • SOUTH AMERICA
        • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA
          • Argentina 2017-2018
          • Chile 2018
          • Paraguay
          • Uruguay 2017
        • NORTH WEST SOUTH AMERICA
          • Bolivia 2018
          • Colombia 2020
          • Equador 2019
          • Galápagos Island
          • Peru 2018-2019
        • DAKAR 2019
          • The Race
          • The Week Leading Up To The Race & Track Inspection
          • South America & Dakar 2019 100% Peru
        • NORTH EAST SOUTH AMERICA
        • Brazil 2017
        • French Guiana 2017
        • Guyana 2017
        • Suriname 2017
      • Central America & Caribbean
        • Caribbean
          • Antigua
          • Aruba
          • Bonaire
          • Cayman Islands
          • Curacao
          • Puerto Rico
          • Saint Kitts
          • Saint Lucia
          • St Martin
        • Central America
          • Costa Rica
          • El Salvador
          • The Republic of Guatemala
          • Honduras
          • Mexico
          • Nicaragua
          • Panama
      • United States & Canada
        • United States
          • Western United States 2023-2024
          • Central United States
          • Southern United States
          • Eastern United States
          • Alaska
          • Hawaii
        • Canada
          • Western Canada
          • Central Canada
          • Eastern Canada
    • EUROPE
      • EASTERN EUROPE
        • Albania
        • Bulgaria
        • Romania
        • Poland
        • Ukraine
      • SOUTHERN EUROPE
        • Andorra
        • Croatia
        • Greece
        • Gibraltor
        • Italy
        • Vatican City
        • Macedonia
        • Montenegro
        • Serbia
        • Slovenia
        • Spain
        • Turkey
      • NORTHERN EUROPE
        • Denmark
        • Faroe Islands
        • Finland
        • Iceland
        • Norway
        • Sweden
      • WESTERN EUROPE
        • Austria
        • Belgium
        • France
        • Germany
        • Ireland
        • Luxembourg
        • Monaco
        • Netherlands
        • Switzerland
        • United Kingdom
  • Trip Planning/Vehicles & Other
    • Planning
    • Our Vehicles & Motorhomes (1981 – 2020)
    • Challenging Roads
    • Wildlife and Cultures
      • Bird-life Amazon Region
      • Faces of the World
      • Wildlife Amazon Region
      • Wildlife around the world
    • Around The World Journey So Far
    • Around The World Video Compilation
    • Our Bar & Grill In Australia 2000 – 2018
    • Our Australian Homes
  • World Video Highlights
    • Middle East Highlights
      • Saudi Arabia Highlights
      • United Arab Emirates Highlights
      • Iran Highlights
      • Jordan Highlights
      • Syria Highlights
      • Oman Highlights
    • Africa Highlights
      • Southern Africa Highlights
        • Angola Highlights
        • Botswana Highlights
        • Lesotho Highlights
        • Mozambique Highlights
        • Namibia Highlights
        • South Africa Highlights
        • Swaziland Highlights
        • Zambia Highlights
        • Zimbabwe Highlights
      • Eastern Africa Highlights
        • Burundi Highlights
        • Rwanda Highlights
        • Uganda Highlights
        • Djibouti Highlights
        • Ethiopia Highlights
        • Kenya Highlights
        • Malawi Highlights
        • Somaliland Highlights
        • Tanzania Highlights
      • Northern Africa Highlights
        • Egypt Highlights
        • Libya Highlights
        • Morocco Highlights
        • Sudan Highlights
        • Tunesia Highlights
        • Western Sahara Highlights
      • Western Africa Highlights
        • Benin Highlights
        • Burkina Faso Highlights
        • Cote D’ivore Highlights
        • The Gambia Highlights
        • Ghana Highlights
        • Mali Highlights
        • Mauritania Highlights
        • Senegal Highlights
        • Togo Highlights
    • Europe Highlights
      • Northern Europe Highlights
        • Iceland Overland in winter
        • Far Oer Islands Highlights
        • Norway Highlights
        • Sweden Highlights
        • Denmark Highlights
        • Finland Highlights
      • Eastern Europe Highlights
        • Bulgaria Highlights
        • Hungary Highlights
        • Czech Republic Highlights
        • Poland Highlights
        • Ukraine Highlights
        • Romania Highlights
      • Southern Europe Highlights
        • Andorra Highlights
        • Bosnia & Herzegovnia Highlights
        • Croatia Highlights
        • Gibralta Highlights
        • Greece Highlights
        • Italy Highlights
        • Spain Highlights
        • Montenegro Highlights
        • North Macedonia Highlights
        • Portugal Highlights
        • San Marino Highlights
        • Serbia Highlights
        • Slovenia Highlights
      • Western Europe Highlights
        • Austria Highlights
        • Belgium Highlights
        • France Highlights
        • Monaco Highlights
        • Germany Highlights
        • Ireland Highlights
        • Liechtenstein Highlights
        • Luxembourg Highlights
        • The Netherlands Highlights
        • Switzerland Highlights
        • United Kingdom Highlights
    • Asia Highlights
      • Central Asia Highlights
        • Kyrgystan Highlights
        • Uzbekistan Highlights
        • Kazakhstan Highlights
        • Tajikistan Highlights
      • The Sub Continent Highlights
        • India Highlights
        • Pakistan Highlights
        • Nepal Highlights
      • Far East Asia Highlights
        • Mongolia Highlights
        • China Highlights
        • Tibet Highlights
        • Russia & Siberia Highlights
        • Japan Highlights
      • South East Asia Highlights
        • Borneo Highlights
        • Cambodia Highlights
        • Indonesia Highlights
        • Laos Highlights
        • Malaysia Highlights
        • Singapore Highlights
        • Thailand Highlights
        • Vietnam Highlights
        • Burma (Myanmar) Highlights
    • Oceania Highlights
      • Australia Highlights
      • New Zealand Highlights
      • South Pacific Highlights
    • Americas Highlights
      • South America Highlights
        • Argentina Highlights
        • Bolivia Highlights
        • Brazil Highlights
        • Chile Highlights
        • Colombia Highlights
        • Ecuador Highlights
        • French Guiana Highlights
        • Galapagos Highlights
        • Guyana Highlights
        • Suriname Highlights
        • Uruguay Highlights
        • Peru Highlights
      • Central America Highlights
        • Guatemala Highlights
        • Belize Highlights
        • El Salvador Highlights
        • Honduras Highlights
        • Nicaragua Highlights
      • North America Highlights
        • Mexico Highlights
        • USA Highlights
        • Canada Highlights
      • Carribean Highlights
        • Aruba Highlights
        • Curacao Highlights
        • Bonaire Highlights
        • Bahamas Highlights
        • Antigua Highlights
        • Barbados Highlights
        • Cuba Highlights
        • Dominican Republic Highlights
        • Jamaica Highlights
        • Saint Kitts Highlights
        • Saint Lucia Highlights
        • Puerto Rico Highlights

Message from Robert and Clary

“Welcome to our website! This space is for fellow overlanders planning their own global adventures and for our friends and family to follow our journey. Unlike the growing number of commercial overlanders who sell stories, books, and media content, we travel the world purely for the joy of exploration—without any commercial intent. Our journey is fueled by passion, not profit.”

Colombia

As of September 2024, In 49 years we visited 144 countries around the world.

To-date 21 years on the road.

Since 2004 we drive around the world in our expedition vehicle

Initially 9 months travel and 3 months home

Since 2020, 6 months travel and 6 months home 

 

REMEMBER,

YOU NEVER NEVER KNOW

IF YOU NEVER NEVER GO

Swimming in the arctic ocean

 

 

 

Bush Camping in India
India
Do not speed
Bush Camping in Tibet at 5900 meters

98% of the pictures you see on our website are our own. When images are protected, we do our best to credit the photographer, traveller, or source. If we can’t, it’s simply “BAD LUCK.” We’re not commercial overlanders; we just want to showcase the beauty of this world and highlight the incredible places to visit.

India
Potala Palace Tibet
India
Army Tibet and Pakistan border

Traveling in an expedition vehicle overland around the world offers a unique perspective on the countries we have explored. Allowed us to connect more deeply with local cultures and environments compared to traditional forms of travel.

Dogong region in Mali (West Africa)

 

 

LIVING THE DREAM

Our Route, coloured coded for year of travel – zoom in for details

 

Off Road in Australia
Off Road in Australia
Off Road in Australia

It has been a long journey – a journey of dreaming and planning. Since 1984, We have been traveling off-road around Australia during holidays and as  member of various 4WD clubs. Robert, as a trip coordinator and organizer for hard 4WD and longer trips with the Toyota Landcruiser Club of Brisbane, has  led expeditions, including wet season trips to the Kimberleys, Cape York, and summer trips in the desert.

OFF ROAD IN AUSTRALIA
OFF ROAD IN AUSTRALIA
OFF ROAD IN AUSTRALIA

Outback Fuel station in the 80’s
OFF ROAD IN AUSTRALIA
Sharing the fuel station with local plane.

OFF ROAD IN AUSTRALIA

In 2004, we made the decision to explore Australia’s Outback and off-road tracks in detail. This led to a 4-year journey, from 2004 to 2009, that took us  deeper into the heart of the Australian landscape.

OFF ROAD IN AUSTRALIA
OFF ROAD IN AUSTRALIA
OFF ROAD IN AUSTRALIA
OFF ROAD IN AUSTRALIA

During our 4-year journey, we began to dream of an off-road adventure around the world. In 2009, we shipped our new truck from Brisbane (Australia)  to Durban (South Africa), marking the beginning of a life-changing journey. While waiting for the truck to arrive in South Africa, we rented a 4WD and traveled through Kalimantan, Borneo, Sabah, and Brunei.

Borneo
Borneo
Borneo
Borneo

Borneo
Head hunter trophy,s Kalimatan
Borneo

On January 6, 2004, when we woke up that morning to leave our house, we had a strange feeling, knowing that we wouldn’t be back for at least nine months. The rush of excitement we felt that day is something that never changes every time we buy a plane ticket, pack our bags, and head off to explore unfamiliar places.

Trouble Sudan and Ethiopia
Trouble Sudan and Ethiopia
Trouble Sudan and Ethiopia

Crossing Pakistan and Afghanistan border area with army escortr
Crossing Pakistan and Afghanistan border area with army escortr
Crossing Pakistan and Afghanistan border area with army escortr

Chinese Hummer
Chinese army border Pakistan and Tibet
Border Tajikistan and Afghanistan

That was a special day. It marked the beginning of our planned 5-year journey around the world. Our plan was to travel for a maximum of 9 months each year, allowing us to return home for 3 months each year, leaving our truck in the country we were visiting.

Ethiopia
Iran
Pakistan security guard

Tibet Bush Camp at 5780 meters
Chinese Road House
Rough tracks over 6000 meters

Meet the locals.
Rough tracks over 6000 meters
Rough tracks over 6000 meters

It is now February 2025, and we have completed exploration of Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, Russia, Mongolia, China, Central Asia, Stan Countries, South East Asia, Sub Continent, Australia, South America, Central America, Mexico,  the Western USA, Central USA, Southern USA and we are just about to start exploring the Eastern USA and Canada. To date, we’ve covered 420,000 km, equivalent to circumnavigating the world at the equator around 10 times.

Meet the locals
Rhino’s at our bush camp
Meet the locals

Our original 5-year around-the-world adventure has now expanded to at least 25 years. This timeline does not include Europe or another Australia tour 

Meet the locals in the Amazon region
Meet the locals in the Amazon region
Meet the locals in the Amazon region

The Legendary pink river dolphins of the Amazon
Meet the locals in the Amazon region
On Expedition with the National Geograpic documentary makersple

Meet the locals in the Amazon region
Meet the locals in the Amazon region
3 day Crossing of the Amazon to Brasil far North East region

Amazon Roads
Meet the local wild life
Amazon Roads

Since we began our travels in 1975, we’ve had the privilege of visiting 144 countries. The world is full of breathtakingly beautiful places, and throughout our around-the-world 4WD adventure, we’ve been fortunate to experience so much of what these countries have to offer.

Potala Palace
India
Tibet
Potala Palace

Trouble in India
Friday prayer around our truck
lhasa
Chinese Hummer

We’ve been exposed to a wide range of cultures, landscapes, and wonderful people. For the most part, the world we’ve traversed so far has proven to be a remarkably kind and welcoming place.

Meet the locals
Chinese Border
Meet the locals
Waiting at the Tibet and Nepal border

Meet the locals in Tibet
Chinese Army inspection
Tracks in Tibet.
On our way Mt Everest Base Camp Tibet side side.

We were pleasantly surprised to meet so many of you who are following our journey at various Overland Shows, Travel presentations and even in Walmart carparks across the USA.

Local wild life in Siberia
Wolves at our bush camp in Siberia
Wolves at our bushcamp in Siberia
Border Niger and Benin (West Africa)

Polar bears
Mongolia
West Africa
Mongolia

West Africa
Siberia
Mongolia

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has made our 4WD overland adventure so fascinating and rewarding. From fellow travelers and gracious hosts in countless countries to the many locals who waved, smiled, and welcomed us wherever we went, and to the over 3,000 friends, family, and strangers who have followed our travels online or through our private mailing list—thank you all. Your support has enriched our journey and our lives in countless ways.

Mongolia
St Petersburg (Russia)
Ice roads (Russia)
Eskimo

Recovery
St Petersburg (Russia)
Dinner tonight (West Africa)
West Africa

Red Square Moscow
Overnight with the locals
Snowed in overnight in Siberia
Recovery

We look forward to more years of exploration, with many more countries to visit and experiences to share. The countries highlighted in red below are those we’ve visited so far.

West Africa
West Africa
West Africa
Dogong Region (West Africa)
Filling up water in Russia.

 

 

 

 


Fun Facts

Distance Travelled 484700 Km Average 80.7KM per day
Photos Taken 51230
Current Location Panama City
Days on the road 5220
Countries Visited 143
Border Crossings 184
Tyres Changed 5
Paid Bribes 2
© Theme by Purethemes.net. All Rights Reserved.