+++ Breaking News: From Beypazari to Merzifon: Unicamels on Chinese rallye! Third flat tire! +++

Another sunny day in Turkey! We started the day with a really nice breakfast. Shortly before leaving Hauke saved a turtle from being run over by another team.

We decided to take the scenic road around Ankara (couldn’t be bothered to be stuck in traffic again) and have a look at the beautiful countryside.

Our first stop was Corum. There we got the information for our daily challenge the so called “Chinese Rallye”. A rallye where you have to follow photos as clues and fulfill missions like to buy a kilo of roasted chickpeas.

At the end was a 50 km off-road track. Due to our scenic drive we were quite late and it was already dark. The first kilometers of the off-road track were a lot of fun, Kati from Team Fehlzündung managed to burst the third tyre.


We decided to take the highway after half the track due to darkness and the fact, that another team had already broken their gearbox on the other 25 kilometers. When we arrived in Merzifon, drivers’ camp was already closed ( to many cars, not enough space) so we were advised to go to a hotel or spend the night at a spare car park. We choose the new car park which turned out to be in the industrial center.

+++ Breaking News: Unicamels nearly drowning! Croatia – Bosnia-Herzegovina – Croatia – Montenegro – Albanian – Greece +++

On the morning of day 3 we left the campground again in pouring rain to Dubrovnik. For the first time we were able to see the beautiful Croatian coast and Dubrovnik made our fans of Game of Thrones’ very happy! It’s a beautiful place with the old castle.

Unfortunately the non-raining time was limited. In Montenegro – first real stamp in our passport – it was raining cats and dogs again.

We continued driving on the shoreline of a lake and were stoked about the friendliness of the people and the beauty of the country. We got beautifully coloured Easter eggs (orthodox Easter) as a present and handed out some Unicamel cookies. After nearly swimming away in our cars due to the heavy rainfalls we entered Albania.

Regen! Regen! Regen!

Albania was very chaotic… Roads which ended nowhere, suddenly being on a highway without seeing any signs, roads full of holes, massive bumps we could not pass and confusing one way streets. Due to the much appreciated help of the locals who even escorted us, we finally found our way. We kept driving until 3.00 am and were happy to cross the Greek border without any problems to fall immediately asleep

The daily challenge: find an apple tree and take a picture turned out to be a mission. No apple trees in Montenegro (that’s what the locals told us) until we found this one…

The cars are packed and full of gas…Finally it’s the 29.04! We are heading off on on Friday afternoon to Oberstaufen.

After weeks of preparing for the trip 6 little Unicamels cantered their way to Oberstaufen, where we met a couple of old friends!

After signing in we received our rallye licence and the gps live tracker. Now you are able to see where we are driving and how many kilometers we are driving every day.

The company Scout handed out the backpacks… We got one with pirates on it. Fearless, Full of courage and adventure… Like the unicamels…
Then the Unicamels hit the dancefloor after having tasted the very yummy turkish food prepared for us! Thank you organization committee for these culinary treats.

We met old and made new friends. We got to know Gerd and Klaus-Dieter who were part of the Team Lebenshilfe and did the rallye in 2013. We feel honored as they will wave the flags for us at the starting ramp!

And then: the grand finale! Unicamel Kevin galloped on stage and sang Angels from Robbie Williams… He sure made this a night to remember for all of us.