We would like to thank:
the management of Deutsche Telekom and the Federal Environment Office (Umweltbundesamt) for supporting our travel plans,
Thom Brenner and the company bit~side for designing our website and placing all the information,
Yvonne Brix for designing the inside of our land cruiser and print documents,
Rita and Heinz Vogel for their organizational help in preparing our departure and during our journey,
Jürgens Peters who arranged for the fast shipping of our vehicle,
Sabine Poews and Bettina Stein for taking care of our pet Benny,
Uschi Klarhölter and Brigitta Henseler for looking after our apartment,
Mr. Lindenau of VisumCentrale Berlin for the quick and easy help with the entry permits,
Jürgen Voigt for helping us adapt our vehicle to our travel requirements,
Dr. Bätzing-Feigenbaum for giving us good tropical medicine advice,
our family doctor Hamid Bae for compiling our first aid kit,
Mrs. Wenske of Helvetia Versicherung, Berlin city office, for fulfilling our extraordinary insurance wishes,
Mr. Többen of Többen Toyota Autohaus in Hanover for his support in optimizing our land cruiser,
the expedition outfitter teams at Globetrotter, Därr, Wittke, Bannat, Mount K, Taubenreuther, Woick, and Launche&Maas,
Erkan Karacoc for offering his garage to us temporarily to modify our vehicle,
Mouldi Oueslati for giving us valuable advice regarding the Sahara,
Ramu Sapkota of Adventure Silk Road (http://www.south-asia.com/adventure-silkroad) in Nepal for helping us organize the China trip,
David Berghof of Stantours in Ashgabat (http://stantours.s5.com) for arranging our eventful Turkmenistan tour,
Sony Deutschland for the unconventional and generous help in repairing our digital camera,
the work teams in Toyota repair shops in Katmandu, Lhasa and Ashgabat for their professional help and repair of our land cruiser,
Bernd Reimer and his collegues at the shipping company FREITAN for coordinating the delivery of the spare parts,
Michael Martin for sending our computer spare parts to Tehran. (By the way: His website on deserts worldwide is very interesting: www.michael-martin.de),
mountain guide Jürgen Geilich for taking the spare parts for our vehicle and the new VISA card to Katmandu.
We thank T-Systems International GmbH for paying for the English translation of our travel diary on our website. The English version is very important for the many visitors of our website who do not speak German, but are very much interested in reading about our trip.