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A charity tour for orphan children

Trudy and Dirk Regter from the Netherlands go on a world tour in a 1915 Ford Model T, covering all continents of the world. They are making this trip with the aim of raising money for orphans worldwide.

To date, they have driven 64,000 miles across 31 countries and have raised more than $45,000 spent on children's projects in Colombia and Bolivia. An earlier trip by Dirk in 2007 from Beijing to Paris in the Model T raised more than $140,000, of which 2 children's projects were built in Mongolia. The last part of their world tour,about 10,500 miles, takes them back home to the Netherlands via Asia. If you support the purpose of this journey, you can take ownership of some of these 10,500 miles of this final leg.

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    Report 25 June

    Posted on 25 June 2014 by DirkJan

    Report of 25th June
    Report by Thecla and Benno

    We intend to go on 6 o clock in the morning for a walk through the rainforest. But when we awake it was still dark. About a half hour later it was light enough but cloudy.

    jungle

    jungle

    The noises are all around us and I feel my heat beating if we enter with our first steps in virginious wood. We get welcomed  by colorous birds while lizards run shy away.

    curious bird

    curious bird

    feather macaw

    feather macaw

    We see humming birds, many butterflies and big great spiders of 8 cm. Pace for pace we walk careful further in the wood, we won’t disturb “the holiness of the surrounding”. The magic of the wood let us whisper.  We see at the top of the jungle enormous wood giants and from a distance we hear the impressive sounds of howling monkeys. Robbery birds look up and fly slightly away.  How nice

    weaverbird nests

    weaverbird nests

    under the arms of the ceibo three

    under the arms of the ceibo three

    If we cross a little river, we see fishes and hear whistling frogs which make the sounds of the wood more impressive. A few moments later, just when Dirk’s is asking about the possibility to see here snakes, we see a beautiful coloured coral-snake on our path.
    We get quiet about the naturalness, so near by Guayaquil and that we may enjoy it together.

    forest squirel

    forest squirel

    exotic jungle food

    exotic jungle food

    After the beautiful hike we stayed on the shade of the campsite and we are waiting to the things which will come. Today we had to do some shopping and we experienced a very abandoned road which we normally don’t see. But it seems that Ecuador had to play the next game in the world championship. A shame that they play ended 0-0, so they may not play further.

    in the shadow

    in the shadow

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