Mar 25, 2008 11:29 AM
Trabant Trek charity team helped on its way by iGO My way
After half a year of hard work, the Trabant Trek team of old motor cars and enthusiastic young people has arrived in Cambodia. The expedition, which took them across two whole continents, was greatly assisted along the way by iGO My way GPS navigation software. The eight-person team set off last summer with the aim of helping Cambodian orphans, travelling right across Europe and Asia, from Germany to Cambodia. The participants covered a total of 25,882 kilometres (over 16,000 miles) during the adventure, travelling in three Trabants - although one of them didn't make it all the way because of a breakdown. The $20,000 raised during the trip has been given to two pre-selected aid organisations, whose special trainings help orphaned children to build back their place in society.
For the first third of the journey, from Germany to Turkey, the members of the team found their way around relying on HTC P3300 Artemis PDA devices and iGO My way Europe software, donated by Nav N Go and RRC Hungary DiFo. Satellite navigation often proved extremely useful, especially in big cities, where it would have been all too easy to get lost if they hadn't had GPS.
“The start of the journey was really crazy, because we'd left all our paper maps at home, so the only tools we had for finding our way were the Sat Nav and compasses” said Zsófi Somlai, a university student and the only Hungarian member of the team, who is still in Cambodia with her team mates celebrating the successful end of the journey. “iGO My way was a great help on the European stretch, especially in those cities where the streets are quite confusing. Later on it wasn't the built-up areas that posed a problem, but the vast empty spaces. As there aren't any digital maps of Asia we had to rely on the ‘analogue’ equipment, and in the Gobi Desert the only reliable guide we had was the setting sun, because even our compasses got frozen.”
The Hungarian girl was joined on the action-packed trip by four Americans, two English people and a Spaniard. The fund-raising journey received a lot of publicity in several countries, and the Washington Post of the USA and The Star of Britain were just some of the newspapers that published articles about the trip. Although the expedition is over, the fund-raising will continue on behalf of the Cambodian orphans.
Nav N Go would like to congratulate the team on their successful completion of such a great distance, and are proud to have contributed to the overall success of the fund-raising mission.
For the first third of the journey, from Germany to Turkey, the members of the team found their way around relying on HTC P3300 Artemis PDA devices and iGO My way Europe software, donated by Nav N Go and RRC Hungary DiFo. Satellite navigation often proved extremely useful, especially in big cities, where it would have been all too easy to get lost if they hadn't had GPS. “The start of the journey was really crazy, because we'd left all our paper maps at home, so the only tools we had for finding our way were the Sat Nav and compasses” said Zsófi Somlai, a university student and the only Hungarian member of the team, who is still in Cambodia with her team mates celebrating the successful end of the journey. “iGO My way was a great help on the European stretch, especially in those cities where the streets are quite confusing. Later on it wasn't the built-up areas that posed a problem, but the vast empty spaces. As there aren't any digital maps of Asia we had to rely on the ‘analogue’ equipment, and in the Gobi Desert the only reliable guide we had was the setting sun, because even our compasses got frozen.”
The Hungarian girl was joined on the action-packed trip by four Americans, two English people and a Spaniard. The fund-raising journey received a lot of publicity in several countries, and the Washington Post of the USA and The Star of Britain were just some of the newspapers that published articles about the trip. Although the expedition is over, the fund-raising will continue on behalf of the Cambodian orphans.
Nav N Go would like to congratulate the team on their successful completion of such a great distance, and are proud to have contributed to the overall success of the fund-raising mission.
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