Tanja Katzer

Tanja Katzer was born on August 30, 1970 in Nuremberg. Tanja is a qualified travel agent. In 1991, she gave up her job and has since accompanied Denis on his world expedition “The Great Journey”. Together they have crossed the Desert of Death (Taklamakan) on foot on camels and by horse-drawn cart through the central highlands and the Gobi Desert in Mongolia – to name just a few stages of the “Great Journey”.

As an author, photographer and filmmaker, Tanja and her husband Denis publish their shared experiences in magazines and journals, give slide shows, write books and work on film documentaries for television.

Between the expedition stages, Tanja works internationally as a model or pursues her passion: painting.

Tanja Katzer was born on August 30, 1970 in Nuremberg. Tanja is a qualified travel agent. She gave up her job in 1991 and has accompanied Denis on his world expedition ever since
“The great journey“.

Together, they crossed the Desert of Death (Taklamakan) on foot on camels and by horse-drawn cart through the central highlands and the Gobi Desert of Mongolia – to name just a few stages of the great journey.

As an author, photographer and filmmaker, Tanja and her husband Denis publish their shared experiences in journals and magazines, give slide shows, write books and work on film documentaries for television.

Between the expedition stages, Tanja works as a model or pursues her passion: painting.

• 1979 South Africa
  Together with my parents, at the age of
  nine years ago to my uncle who lived in Johannisburg.
  Together we explored this wonderful country.
• 1988 Brazil
  First big photo trip in my job as a model
• 1989 Thailand
  On the road as a traveler. First contact with another culture.
• 1990 Venezuela
  I meet up with Denis, who has successfully returned from his Guyana expedition.
  has returned. As travelers, we visit Venezuela and the Caribbean.
• 1991 Start of the 30-year expedition: “The Great Journey”
  Denis and I start our life project together
  “The great journey”. By land and sea,
  with the usual means of transportation, from Germany
  to South America.
• 1991, 1992, 1993
  Germany, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Sinai, Jordan,
  Syria, Turkey, Eastern Anatolia, Iran.
  By train, boat, bus and hitchhiking from Germany
  to Pakistan. Years later, second trip to India.
• 1991, 1992, 1993 Pakistan
  On the backs of our camels, we were the first to cross the
  Europeans all over Pakistan.
  Years later, second overland journey from Europe to India.
  Distance covered 1,500 kilometers.
• 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 India
  1 ½ years with an old Indian motorcycle through South India.
  Distance covered 15,000 kilometers.
• 1992, 1993 Andaman Islands – India
  Expedition to the endangered Jarawas.
  Unique contact with someone who still lives like in the Stone Age
  Indigenous people on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. The Jarawas killed
  At that time, there were still intruders with bows and arrows. Two of the few
  Western visitors who had contact with the Jarawas were
  Heinrich Harrer and the King of Belgium in 1976.
• 1992 Sri Lanka
  Contact with a people threatened with extinction, the Veddas.
• 1994 Madagascar
  With a four-wheel drive vehicle 7,000 kilometers through Madagascar.
  Contacts with remote ethnic groups.
• 1995 Taklamakan/China
  Camel expedition through the Taklamakan Desert of Death.
  Crossing the largest contiguous sand desert in our
  Earth, the Taklamakan in western China. We march 1,000 kilometers with
  seven camels through a sea of sand. The desert of death was
  the smallest expedition in its history and without supplies
  defeated from the outside.

• 1995, 1996 Tibet
  With a four-wheel drive vehicle over the roof of the world to Nepal.
• 1996/Summer Nepal
  Elephant expedition
  We rode through the kingdom of Nepal on the back of an elephant.
• 1996/Autumn Mongolia
  Horse expedition through the central highlands.
  With a total of twelve horses and a horse-drawn carriage, we rode through
  as the first Europeans of the last century
  the central highlands and the Gobi desert of Mongolia. Distance traveled
  Distance 1,600 kilometers.
• 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Australia
  (Longest camel expedition in Australian history).
  With seven camels we crossed the Australian continent from
  South to north and from the west coast to the east coast. A daring
  An undertaking whose outcome was uncertain from the outset. It was a
  An adventure of superlatives, a journey into the still unknown interior
  of a mystical and mysterious land. An expedition that
  us to unattainable heights, but also to unimagined heights.
  depths.
• 2004 Egypt
  Photo trip to the Sinai.
• 2004 Caribbean
  Photo tour.
• 2005 Australia
  We lead through an isolated part of the Gibson Desert to the first
  A camel expedition for the first time
  with guests from Hauser excursions.
• 2005 Trans-East Expedition Stage 1
  Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania.
  3,000 kilometers by bike.
• 2007 Trans-East Expedition Stage 2
  Romania, Moldova, Transnistria, Ukraine, Crimea, Western Russia.
  4,000 kilometers by bike.
• 2008 Trans-East Expedition Stage 3
  Russia, Kazakhstan, Siberia
  4,000 kilometers by bike.
• 2009 Trans-East Expedition Stage 4
  Siberia, Lake Baikal, Mongolia
  3,500 kilometers by bike.
• 2011, 2012 Mongolia
  Horse expedition to the last reindeer nomads.
  We were the first Europeans to spend the Arctic winter at temperatures as low as
  minus 50 °C with the Tuwa tribe.
  15 months between ancient shamanism and customs.
  Between minus 50 and plus 40 °C 3,000 kilometers on horseback.
• 2015, 2017 Siberia, Mongolia, China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia,
  Thailand (Current trip – Longest unsupported e-bike EXPEDITION in the world).
  The first stage of our e-bike expedition will take us in two years
  approx. 15,000 kilometers through countries.