Wednesday, December 31, 2008

The Globetrekking Mercedes W123 300TD

Traveling overland in a rugged car has always been one of my dreams. Here is an epic journey taken by a Dutchman, his wife, and their son in a vegetable oil-powered Mercedes W123 300TD wagon. They traveled 29,000 km throughout Europe, the Middle East, and North and West Africa. The pictures are beyond spectacular.

Turkey

Wales

Turkey

Turkey

Timbuktu

Syria

Senegal

Sahara

Mauritania

Mali

Mali

Jordan

Guinea

Greece

Ghana

Gambia

French Alps

Czech Republic

Burkina Faso

Albania

CKY

5 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 1, 2009 at 2:22 AM

    Wauw, let me make a small correction. It is not a German family but a Dutch one. In fact I know the owner of the kombi (in fact he is on his second ;-) ). You can read the whole story here http://300td.org/. Have a great new year. John

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 11, 2009 at 5:28 AM

    It looks like they don't have an "residence" field in ther ID card :)

    What happened to them? the last date in the blog is from 2006..nothing newer. I also have an 300TD and i'm a big fan of the bulletproof w123 in general...

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 27, 2009 at 11:27 AM

    Unkillable W123 diesel...

    Bombproof engine, no nonsense engineering...

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  4. AnonymousJune 2, 2009 at 12:20 AM

    I think he's blogging again, I see images which just weren't there a week ago.
    As I can see they still travel.

    Pete.

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 31, 2010 at 8:32 AM

    Lot's of stuff added since your post!
    He again did some more trips

    Mick N.

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