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Here's why a tall vehicle may not be ideal for big trips. This is getting ours off a river boat at Manaus. The two planks from the boat to the dock had to bend about 20 cm so that the roof could clear the deckhead.

Unfortunately nothing of much use - the GPS unit was an early one and so it captured waypoints but I don't have a GPX file. We took the tarred road from In Amenas to Zarzaitine; just before the latter there's a junction south to Edjeleh, and you then keep going southwards. The road becomes a...

Exactly!

Is there any chance that we could focus on the reason behind the emission controls, and not their enforcement (or otherwise)?

Without going into the question of whether you are prepared to risk importing dangerous insects into NZ (!) you are saying that the fumigation doubles the shipping cost. When we shipped from Colombia to Australia (about the same distance, and when shipping rates were lower) the cost (average...

https://ivssuk.com/ They do a lot of shipping. We've never used them (having shipped seven times so far), however they have a good reputation. We did request a quote for our vehicle from Cartagena to India however they replied that they would not do this route.

I can't imagine any reason why it would be a bad idea to replace experienced ATF with new ATF (provided it's the right spec of course). I'm interested in seeing any reasons why it would not be a good idea.

Arriving in Argentina in mid-winter? Really? I've seen snow in TdF in summer, and have travelled in Patagonia in mid-winter - not the best time to be there. To add to the data on this thread - on our (standard) JK, over 53,000 km in Canada, we averaged 11.9 L/100 km (19.8 miles per USA Gallon)

Lots of opinions out there, however I kept an eye out for other SUVs on our recent Canada trip (53Kkm in 11 months) and outside urban areas, in terms of non-North American vehicles, we saw a dozen Geländewagen, two Range Rovers, and five Land Rovers (one with its bonnet/hood up, one on a...

Iceland is unlike anywhere else we've been (and is amazing) - looking forward to your time in the Faroes - haven't made it there yet : )

I agree fully that we all have different perspectives, needs, and preferences. I do think it useful to add mine on these comments. I've owned four Jeeps - three Cherokees (one of which covered 176,000 km in the USA and Europe) and a JK. When deciding on our current vehicle we considered a JK and...

I was thinking the same thing - if not standard (2.39 m internal) then a "Hi-top" (2.70 m internal). Bear in mind that some countries do not permit vehicle spares to be imported - there are ways around it, however you need to be aware. A couple of further thoughts: - I suggest that ATs will...

Planning on being there next year - July/August - a good time of year to be there, and we need to get away from India during the monsoon.

Thanks for your story - great to see your experience. The scenery is beautiful here - here's a photo I took which might even be from the same viewpoint: Umar's may be the same school I visited while in Murree - one of the Lawrence Colleges?

My Uncle, when he lived in Southern Africa, put seats from scrapped aircraft in the vehicle used for long distance trips. He was GM for an air charter company so obviously this helped find seats which the pilots found best.

Excellent ! Thanks for the insight. We use AllTrails for walking; need to try the others for vehicle-based tracks.

Good points - thank you. I may end up as you say tracking with the Garmin watch and downloading automatically to the laptop (or iPad, maybe). Carrying a big external battery would work but then I'm simply adding weight and volume which is not the purpose. Thanks for this. My intention is mainly...

The view from the terrace in front of the restaurant is great!

One of the reasons we use a GPS unit is to record GPX files which we download for sharing and future reference. I've learned that there are now phone applications which record GPX tracks which can be exported, so I’m looking into whether one of these could replace the GPS unit on an upcoming...

Thank you for sharing - great posts! We'll be there in July/August next year : )