Journey to the lost lake

Dear Nils. Thank you for the won­derful moments in the desert. This was my fourth time in the Saha­ra with NPL. And it won’t be the last time. Like every time, it was an inde­scri­ba­ble expe­ri­ence. The beau­tiful dunes and dri­ving in the sand are sim­ply some­thing spe­cial. A big thank you to Nils and Walid for the super orga­niza­ti­on and the gre­at food. A tip from me! If anyo­ne is unsu­re whe­ther this tour is for them: just book and enjoy👍 See you again Nils. Gree­tings from Switz­er­land San­dro

Breath­ta­king — Chal­len­ging — Inge­nious

Dear peo­p­le, ima­gi­ne someone riding as a pas­sen­ger on the jour­ney to the lost lake, then buy­ing an off-roa­der so that he and his wife can be the­re as dri­vers at the next oppor­tu­ni­ty. Eit­her this per­son is stu­pid or the trip is gre­at from A to Z. Both are true 😊

Arri­ved home safe­ly, but heart and soul are still in the desert. An inde­scri­ba­ble expe­ri­ence and gre­at adven­ture … and very well orga­ni­zed.

Dear Nils, we very much hope that you have made it home safe­ly and that you are doing well. We still can’t quite belie­ve that this won­derful trip has real­ly come to an end. We enjoy­ed it to the full! It was one of the most beau­tiful Tuni­sia and desert trips we have been on. The tour gui­des you cho­se are very spe­cial peo­p­le! We would have been sur­pri­sed if any­thing else had hap­pen­ed, as all our trips with you were won­derful. Best regards Rena­te and Hel­muth

I was allo­wed to take part in this tour as a pas­sen­ger with my nephew — and I have not reg­ret­ted it! It is a uni­que expe­ri­ence to get to know the desert this way. Big prai­se for the enti­re orga­niza­ti­on to Nils. It was real­ly ama­zing what the Tuni­si­an gui­des ser­ved for din­ner in the evening. The­re was not­hing to com­plain about! Sim­ply per­fect and you always felt safe and in good hands with the group. It’s an expe­ri­ence you’ll remem­ber for a long time! Thank you for that!

Dear off­road fri­ends. It was alre­a­dy the third time that I was in the Saha­ra with NPL-Over­land and Nils. And YES.…it cer­tain­ly won’t be the last time. The­re is some­thing magi­cal about the desert that is hard to put into words. My tip: Sim­ply book NPL and expe­ri­ence the breath­ta­king beau­ty of the Tuni­si­an desert with your own eyes (by car). I wat­ched the sun­ri­se every mor­ning and let my mind wan­der. One of the high­lights was the fresh­ly baked bort that the Tuni­si­an gui­des lovin­g­ly and proud­ly pre­pared in the sand oven every mor­ning. A big com­pli­ment for that. The deli­cious din­ner was also fresh­ly pre­pared over the fire every evening. After­wards, we all sat tog­e­ther around the camp­fi­re and loo­ked up at the end­less star­ry sky. Dear Nils, many thanks for the gre­at orga­niza­ti­on and the won­derful time with you and the Tuni­si­an gui­des. It was a gre­at group. I will remem­ber and dream about this trip for a long time to come. See you soon.…Sandro

I was a pas­sen­ger in the Lan­dy with Gün­ter and had no desert expe­ri­ence. My impres­si­ons of the pre­pa­ra­ti­on, orga­niza­ti­on, plan­ning, pro­ce­du­re, exe­cu­ti­on, fri­end­li­ne­ss and team spi­rit far excee­ded my expec­ta­ti­ons. Fur­ther­mo­re, I can only ful­ly agree with Wer­ner’s expe­ri­ence report. But I would like to add one more thing. Vere­na and her son Lucas put up a bra­ve fight. Not every fami­ly does that. It was a gre­at time with you all. THANK YOU FOR THAT

At this point we would like to take the oppor­tu­ni­ty to wri­te a report about our trip with NPL. Short ver­si­on — for all tho­se who don’t want to read so much — we would go on a trip with Nils again at any time. Honest, open and pro­fes­sio­nal from A to Z. For all tho­se who want to know more… Befo­re boo­king: Very pro­fes­sio­nal, indi­vi­du­al, com­pre­hen­si­ve advice on all trips. The most important thing here is hones­ty in rela­ti­on to expec­ta­ti­ons. We don’t sell what cos­ts a lot, but what you want to do! Pre­pa­ra­ti­on for the trip: Even after boo­king, always available and pro­fes­sio­nal in terms of the neces­sa­ry pre­pa­ra­ti­ons for the trip. Even when faced with the chall­enge that your own insu­rance com­pa­ny sim­ply does not want to insu­re the coun­try. Tra­vel arran­ge­ments: Mee­ting point at the fer­ry, get­ting to know each other… then the crossing to Tuni­sia and through cus­toms. Ever­y­thing went wit­hout a hitch. Of cour­se, it’s an exci­ting expe­ri­ence with such packed vehic­les. Once we arri­ved in the coun­try, after a gre­at night in the hotel with a hear­ty break­fast, we went to the gas sta­ti­on to set off in the direc­tion of the desert camp. As we were able to expe­ri­ence the tour with our 4‑year-old son, we would like to take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to say a spe­cial thank you to the who­le group for under­stan­ding the one or other break and the time he was allo­wed to do some­thing with you! Here is a clear note about tra­ve­ling with child­ren. This is not a recrea­tio­nal tour with sight­see­ing. Your kids need to have some tra­vel expe­ri­ence and be sadd­le fit. This should­n’t be the first adven­ture you go on. For us, it was a com­ple­te suc­cess with hap­py child­ren and par­ents. Saha­ra: Rea­ching the camp on the evening of arri­val is alre­a­dy the first chall­enge. Next time we’ll take the air out of the tires… :-) The first evening in the desert is spent get­ting to know the very nice Tuni­si­an gui­des, eating deli­cious food and going to bed ear­ly. The next few days begin with won­derful sun­ri­ses and end with some long days of dri­ving… But always with lots of new impres­si­ons and gre­at expe­ri­en­ces. We had a lot of fun in the tour group. Even the return jour­ney tog­e­ther to cus­toms and by fer­ry to Ita­ly main­tai­ned the posi­ti­ve mood. All in all, we had a very nice time. Now I would like to give you some very spe­cial details, which can be dif­fe­rent for ever­yo­ne: — Some very long dri­ving days, we were awa­re of that, but it must be clear. — Food: we had enough food for 10 days… But the food was so good that my wife and child hard­ly nee­ded any­thing extra — Water: We nee­ded about 80 liters. We could also have used the drin­king water from our sup­port vehic­le… Then 60 liters would have been enough for us — Fuel: We used up almost all of the 160 liters. As a petrol­head, you should defi­ni­te­ly take that into account. Now it only remains for me to say thank you once again. Thank you Nils, Artur and Walid for orga­ni­zing and accom­pany­ing us. Thanks to the par­ti­ci­pan­ts for the time tog­e­ther and not for­get­ting a thank you to our Tuni­si­an accom­pany­ing team. We look for­ward to the next trip.

The tour to the lost lake was exact­ly how I ima­gi­ne a trip into the vast­ness of the desert to be. The team around Nils is first class and pro­vi­des sound sup­port in every situa­ti­on. The vast­ness and tran­quil­li­ty of the desert did me a world of good. In the evening we had a real­ly out­stan­ding din­ner with 4 cour­ses by cand­le­light! Over an after-work beer around the camp­fi­re, we tal­ked about the day’s expe­ri­en­ces until we all fell blissful­ly into our tents. This is exact­ly how a vaca­ti­on in the desert should be. If I have any­thing to com­plain about the tour, it’s that I’ve put on 2 kilos. Thanks Nils, Artur and Vual­id, I’ll be back!

This tour was per­fect from start to finish, from top to bot­tom! Nils and his team did an excel­lent job of gui­ding us into the desert and brin­ging us home safe­ly. Fol­lo­wing the topo­gra­phi­cal gui­de­lines, it was easy at the begin­ning to get to grips with the con­di­ti­ons and the per­for­mance of our own off-roa­der. During the 8 days in which we only had desert around us, dri­ving was the abso­lu­te prio­ri­ty. Nevert­hel­ess, the­re were impres­si­ve dune land­scapes, Table Moun­tain, a lost lake, Ber­ber cave hou­ses and even spon­ta­neous excur­si­ons to Car­tha­ge or Ham­ma­met. In addi­ti­on to the excel­lent sup­port and evening enter­tain­ment, the local gui­des also show­ed us what they are capa­ble of with a rear-wheel dri­ve pick­up in the deepest desert and the hig­hest dunes. Pure expe­ri­ence and con­cen­tra­ted know­ledge was gathe­red here and gave us a good, secu­re fee­ling at all times. Nils, thank you for this gre­at expe­ri­ence. I would love to come back and look for­ward to see­ing all the par­ti­ci­pan­ts again here and the­re on the various NPL OERLAND tours. See you soon!

This tour was sim­ply ama­zing from A to Z — ama­zing team, ama­zing Tuni­si­an crew, ama­zing orga­niza­ti­on and tour gui­de by Nils, ama­zing rou­tes, ama­zing dunes — we would love to do it again.

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.

Once again it was a gre­at tour with many impres­si­ve expe­ri­en­ces. This was my second time in Tuni­sia with Nils and NPL-Over­land and it cer­tain­ly won’t be the last. Ever­y­thing was just right. From the Tuni­si­an gui­des who always pre­pared a gre­at meal and the mecha­nic who always kept ever­y­thing run­ning smooth­ly. The tent that was set up every evening was also gre­at. We could stay in it pro­tec­ted from the wea­ther and enjoy din­ner tog­e­ther, which was coo­ked on the fire. For me, every mor­ning was an expe­ri­ence, fresh bread coo­ked in the embers…mhhhh that was deli­cious. I should also men­ti­on the gre­at hotel in Sfax, which is cer­tain­ly one of the best. Dear Nils, thank you again for the gre­at trip. We will defi­ni­te­ly see you again. Best regards from Switzerland…Sandro

If you are loo­king for a spe­cial off-road adven­ture in the Tuni­si­an desert, Npl-Over­land is the right place for you: a fri­end­ly, high­ly moti­va­ted team with local gui­des, cooks and mecha­nics around orga­ni­zer Nils, uni­que off-roa­ding expe­ri­en­ces, cam­ping and typi­cal local food around the camp­fi­re. We had a gre­at time on the tour in an incre­di­bly impres­si­ve desert — memo­ries for life! Nils, thank you so much again! Your way of orga­ni­zing chall­enge, fun, cohe­si­on and impro­vi­sa­ti­on is uni­que 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼