Swiss husband and wife Paul and Brigitta Bohlen Jüni are not your average couple. Having met and fallen in love in the Caribbean, they went on to tour Australia together, cementing their relationship with marriage in Namibia. Their honeymoon wasn’t spent reading books on a deserted beach. Instead, they chose to go an epic 4×4 adventure through South America and finishing it off by sailing to the Antarctic on a Russian icebreaker! The end? Far from it. Click through the break to find out. (more…)
Being lost and alone in the desert for most people would be the stuff of nightmares… But for Thierry Sabine, a passionate motorcycle racer, that time of isolation getting lost while competing in the Abidjan-Nice rally in 1977 would be a moment of inspiration… Click through to read more about Toyota’s Dakar challenge. (more…)
It felt like yesterday when the gruelling Dakar 2013 kicked off. In fact, the 34th running of the classic event (and fifth time in South America) started on January 5 from Lima, Peru and ended on Saturday in Santiago, Chile. Two weeks later, after crossing three countries and thousands of kilometres in truly rough terrain, South African Toyota Imperial Team’s Hilux 4×4 stormed across the finish line to claim an overall second place finish! More after the break. (more…)