It was a really nice meetup and we had a lot of fun. There were in total 84 attendees and already in the course of Thursday many Niva fans arrived at the camp of the Mammutpark. With
@Moritz Jung and me, two Overland Bound members were present.
The Mammutpark is an offroad pay and play park in the middle of Germany. Many attendees also drove into the offroad course. The Mammutpark with its 130 hectares of off-road terrain is ideal for this. Minor damage such as broken shock absorbers and faulty alternators were immediately repaired together on site, recovery assistance was also naturally - a great community.
A total of 52 Niva and a few other off-road vehicles were present. Among them the visitors could spot real rarities like a Lada Niva pick-up or a Niva Baikal, an extended version which was not built ex works but by a Czech importer.
The organizers of the meeting had even come up with a few fun games. The disciplines were wheel changing for time and V-belt throwing. It was great fun and there were also great prizes to be won. While it was warm, even very warm, during the day, it cooled down noticeably in the evening and so many of the participants sat around the cracking campfire until deep into the night, exchanging travel stories and tech talking about the Niva technology.
I will certainly go to this meeting again, maybe next year and hopefully there will be a few more OB members.
And now some more photo impressions:
