From the very beginning, it was important to us to offer every rider maximum freedom while at the same time minimising the risk of getting lost. In addition to the map material, each motorbike was equipped with a navigation aid. For the first 15 years or so, we used road books specially prepared by us for each tour, just as they were used on the big desert rallies such as the Dakar. This system was quite exciting for the participants, but also quite time-consuming for us and had to be constantly maintained and updated, which was not always possible, especially when routes had to be changed at short notice.

As we now have perfect routable GPS maps available to us in southern Africa and the GPS devices from Garmin have become absolutely reliable and easy to use for everyone, we switched our navigation completely to this system. Initially we used the Garmin 60 CSX or 78 for a long time, but now our entire fleet is equipped with the Garmin Montana 700i, on which the respective tour route is precisely pre-programmed and can be called up for each individual day. The features of the new Garmin Montana are impressive: it is very robust and has a large touch display that is easy to read, especially in sunlight, and is trackable so that every rider can be found quickly in an emergency.

While we still used both a road book AND GPS during the transition period, we now rely exclusively on electronic navigation devices.

Even on the small paths of Kaokoland we have had the best experiences and there is virtually no chance of getting lost, let alone getting lost.