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Unsere offroad / overlanding Touren im 2025

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Gemeinsam mit Ihnen wachsen wir jedes Jahr. Wie Sie wissen, haben wir uns im Herbst 2024 in Dreamscape Overland umbenannt. Damit haben wir einen Namen angenommen, der die Essenz der Touren einfängt auf die wir Sie mitnehmen – Overlanding durch Traumlandschaften, Entdecken der schönsten Bergkämme und Gipfel, Schlafen auf versteckten wilden Campingplätzen in verzauberten Wäldern, erreichen dieser über Wege die auf keiner der Karten verzeichnet sind und die oft seit Jahren niemand mehr befahren hat – außer uns.

Wir teilen mit Ihnen die pure Freude verlassene Orte (weit außerhalb der Reichweite von Handy-Empfang) zu entdecken, die fast jeden Kontakt mit der Zivilisation in der wir leben verloren haben, obwohl diese Zivilisation vielleicht nur 20 oder 30 Kilometer weiter gedeiht. Sogar unsere Tour zum Auftakt der Campingsaison haben wir „The Green Hideouts“ genannt, weil Sie genau diese Orte entdecken werden – die tiefsten Geheimnisse einer vergessenen, von Vegetation überwucherten und von Menschen verlassenen Welt. Sie ist das Ergebnis von 50 Jahren leidenschaftlicher Erforschung des Balkans, die uns eine private Datenbank mit Spuren von über 200.000 km Gesamtlänge beschert hat. Kein Konkurrent kann da mithalten!

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Our offroad / overlanding tours in 2025

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Together with you, we’re growing every year. As you know, in autumn of 2024 we have rebranded to Dreamscape Overland, taking a name which captures the essence of the tours on which we’re taking you – overlanding through dreamscapes, discovering the most beautiful mountain ridges and peaks, sleeping on hidden wild campsites in enchanted forests, reaching them along trails which aren’t present in any of the maps, which has often nobody driven for years – except for us.

We share with you the pure joy of discovering desolate places (far outside of mobile range), which have lost almost all contact with the civilization that we live in, although that civilization maybe thrives only some 20 or 30 kilometres further. Even to our camping season opener tour we have given the name The Green Hideouts, because those are exactly the places that you will discover on it – the deepest secrets of a forgotten world overgrown by vegetation and abandoned by people. It is the result of 50 years of passionate exploration of the Balkans, which brought us a private database of tracks exceeding 200.000 km in overall length. No competitor can come anywhere close!

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We have rebranded – welcome to Dreamscape Overland!

Today we have layed a milestone in our overlanding tour operator business – we are rebranding from Rustika Expeditions (Rustika Travel) to Dreamscape Overland, the brand under which all of our 2025 (and future) tours will take place. We are rebranding in order to expand and diversify our business, bringing you more of what you really expect from us. We have expanded our team of guides, and with our new tour portfolio for 2025 we are reaching out to the groups of our potential customers which we have previously ignored – on one side those who are more into travelling than driving challenges, and on the opposite end of the spectrum, those who want much more of a driving challenge in our tours. A third, hybrid tour genre we will launch a little later, and that will be tours which combine offroad driving with hiking.

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2023 photo galleries fully updated

We have updated the photo album with 5 new galleries from our 2023 tours, so that now last season is completed, and you can find it in the usual place:

Photo album

The albums which we have added are from the Ancient Trails, Secret Carpathians, Montenegro Highlands, Rhodopean Quest and Trails of Gods tours.

Our hotel accomodation offroad tours – closer look

Although we are best known for our legendary total wilderness tours, we also make hotel accomodation offroad tours, at least in Serbia. And some very good ones! But that lately seems to be slipping the attention of that large offroading population who prefer hotels to camping. What could be the reason? Maybe we have shifted our focus off those tours? Maybe you can’t believe that Serbia could possibly have decent hotels?

That is what this video is intended for – to give you a picture what our hotel tours actually look like (including the impressions of some participants), and to draw your attention to the dates of those tours.

See you for some offroading fun in Serbia soon! 🙂

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Halfseason 2022 overview – Ancient Trails and Montenegro Highlands galleries created

Our 2022 season is at full pace. We’ve had 7 fabulous tours in the Balkans countries so far, and 4 more are awaiting us in the second part of the season. We have just managed to put a few more photo albums online, which cover the Ancient Trails tour (June), as well as the two Montenegro Highlands tours (July).

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Montenegro Highlands 2022 gallery – click on image to enter

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New photo gallery added

We have just added the photo gallery from the two Homolje Goldrush 2022 tours, which took place between April 10th and 23rd 2022. Just like we always expect from April, we’ve had sun and rain, even snow, so all driving conditions were present in the tour, occasionally putting the participants before challenging tasks in the golden mountains of eastern Serbia. We also visited the Majdanpek goldmine, as well as Todor’s river, where we were demonstrated the ancient art of gold prospecting.

You can take a look at the 120 images selected for the photo album here.

 

Zwischen Winter und Frühling in ost Serbien

Sollten Sie nach Serbien reisen? Marco war 10 Mal dort, also ist dies eine Gelegenheit herauszufinden warum.

Das neue Video das gerade auf unserem YouTube Kanal veröffentlicht wurde, zeigt Ihnen wie Marco Abel Ende März 2022 die Wildnis Ostserbiens erkundete, gerade als der Winter dem Frühling Platz machte. Entdecken Sie diese spannende Landschaft und hören Sie was Marco über seine bisherigen Erfahrungen zu sagen hat.

Neuer Termin für Geheimnis der Karpaten Tour

Aufgrund des großen Interesses haben wir einen zusätzlichen Termin für unsere Indian Summer Tour durch die serbischen Karpaten eingeführt! So gibt es im Oktober wieder die Möglichkeit eine Hoteltour zu buchen – https://www.rustikatravel.com/de/secret-carpathians/

Bei den Wildcampingtouren im gleichen Gebiet im Juni und August haben wir noch freie Plätze. Während die Hoteltouren 6 Tage dauern, zeigen Ihnen die Campingtouren 10 Tage lang ein viel größeres Gebiet und besuchen auch einige tiefe Wildnisgebiete, in denen es keine Hotels gibt (die also nur bei Wildcampingtouren besucht werden können).

New videos on our YouTube channel

Winter is always a time of intense activity when it comes to writing and producing multimedia material from previous season, so this one is no exception. In the past month we’ve made several attractive videos, of which probably the one that will draw most attention is the Albanian Wild Tracks 2021 video:

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