Magni­fi­cent land­scapes, lots to dis­co­ver. Gre­at group. Super orga­niza­ti­on, despi­te the absence of Flo. Thanks to Niko­la.

Diver­se land­scapes, stun­ning views and gre­at over­night stops. Lots of dri­ving fun and adven­ture through a washed away road or a dama­ged bridge. Niko­la and Tom did a gre­at job of gui­ding our lar­ge group, even in the event of a break­down.

After tra­ve­ling the Bal­kans twice with Nils and NPL in recent years, this year it was the High­lands in Mon­te­ne­gro. First of all: — It was a real­ly nice tour. At the begin­ning we had some con­cerns due to the group size of more than 10 vehic­les, but ever­y­thing work­ed out won­derful­ly. The local gui­de Niko­la cho­se beau­tiful rou­tes and gre­at cam­ping spots and gave us lots of infor­ma­ti­on about the coun­try, peo­p­le and cul­tu­re. In addi­ti­on to the cont­act with local far­mers around the camp­fi­re every evening, he even estab­lished a radio con­nec­tion to the ISS — inte­res­t­ing. Nils in his inde­scri­ba­ble man­ner and Tom as co-gui­de took care of the group and cohe­si­on — as always very plea­sant and rela­xed. And as well as lear­ning about the coun­try, peo­p­le and cul­tu­re, we lear­ned a lot about repai­ring fan belts, fuel pumps and fil­ters, gears­hift lin­k­ages, star­ter motors etc.. A big thank you to Patrick, the mecha­nic in the group, who always found a solu­ti­on, regard­less of the brand. Once again, it was gre­at fun and the days went by far too quick­ly. Many thanks to the gui­des and see you next time …

A gre­at tour whe­re ever­y­thing went real­ly well and the descrip­ti­on of the tour on the npl web­site was cle­ar­ly excee­ded for me. After our arri­val, we spent 8 days away from civi­liza­ti­on bet­ween dunes and gra­vel roads. The sup­port and com­pa­ny pro­vi­ded by our gui­des was exem­pla­ry, with “half board” in the desert, as break­fast and din­ner were alre­a­dy included in the tour packa­ge. We ate every evening in a com­mu­nal tent set up espe­ci­al­ly for the tour par­ti­ci­pan­ts. In the mor­nings and evenings, the gui­des ser­ved fresh­ly baked flat­bread in Bedouin style and at night the­re was a star­ry sky to dream under. I had ever­y­thing I could wish for on an off-road tour through the desert and, of cour­se, our vehic­les some­ti­mes got stuck, but this was hand­led pro­fes­sio­nal­ly by all the par­ti­ci­pan­ts, every sin­gle one of whom I would like to see on my next off-road tour. Thank you Nils for this won­derful expe­ri­ence, it was my first tour with you, but almost cer­tain­ly not my last, inclu­ding a repeat of the Tuni­sia tour.

It was a gre­at tour that lived up to the descrip­ti­on. We were a group of six cars in total, two of which we alre­a­dy have, with very nice peo­p­le and a thoughtful gui­de Tom. The first few days of our tour were easy ter­rain with beau­tiful views. Tom took us to very nice places to spend the night, whe­ther wild camp or camp­si­te. Some of the ter­rain on the last few days was a litt­le more chal­len­ging, but thanks to Tom, even the­se pas­sa­ges were mana­geable. All in all, a suc­cessful and enjoya­ble vaca­ti­on. Glad­ly again with npl-Ober­land