10 most unusual round-the-world travels

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

On January 7, 1887, Thomas Stevens of San Francisco completed the first bicycle tour around the world. In three years, the traveler managed to overcome 13,500 miles and open a new page in the history of travel around the world. Today about the most unusual around the world.

Thomas Stevens' round the world by bike

In 1884, "a man of average height, dressed in a blue tattered flannel shirt and blue overalls … tanned as a nut … with a protruding mustache", this is how the journalists of the time described Thomas Stephens, bought a penny-farthing bicycle, grabbed a minimum supply of things and Smith & Wesson.38 and hit the road. Stevens crossed the entire North American continent, covering 3,700 miles, and ended up in Boston. There he came up with the idea of a trip around the world. He sailed to Liverpool on a steamer, passed through England, on a ferry to the French Dieppe, crossed Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey. Further, his path ran through Armenia, Iraq and Iran, where he spent the winter as a guest of the Shah. He was denied travel through Siberia. The traveler crossed the Caspian Sea to Baku, reached Batumi by rail, and then sailed on a steamer to Constantinople and India. Then Hong Kong and China. And the final point of the route was Japanwhere Stevens, by his own admission, was finally able to relax.

Travel around the world in an amphibious jeep

In 1950, Australian Ben Carlin made the decision to travel around the world in his modernized amphibious jeep. Three quarters of the route with him was his wife. In India, she went ashore, and Ben Karlin himself completed his journey in 1958, having covered 17 thousand km by water and 62 thousand km by land.

Hot air balloon trip around the world

In 2002, American Steve Fossett, co-owner of Scaled Composites, who by that time had already earned the fame of an adventure pilot, flew around the Earth in a balloon. He tried to do this for more than one year and achieved the goal on the sixth attempt. Fossett's flight was the first ever single flight around the world without refueling or stopping.

Travel around the world by taxi

Once the British John Ellison, Paul Archer and Lee Pernell calculated the costs associated with it in the morning after the booze and found out that a taxi to the house would cost them much more than the booze itself. Probably, someone would have decided to drink at home, but the British acted radically - they bought a London cab made in 1992 and set off on a round-the-world trip. As a result, in 15 months they covered 70 thousand km and went down in history as participants in the longest taxi ride. History is silent, however, about their activity in pubs along the way.

Travel around the world on an ancient Egyptian reed boat

Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl made the transatlantic voyage in a light reed boat built to a model of the ancient Egyptians. On his boat "Ra" he managed to reach the coast of Barbados, proving that ancient navigators could make transatlantic voyages. It is worth noting that this was Heyerdahl's second attempt. The year before, he and his crew nearly drowned, as the ship, due to structural flaws, a few days after the start, began to bend and broke into pieces. The Norwegian's team included a well-known Soviet TV journalist and traveler Yuri Senkevich.

Travel around the world on a pink yacht

Today the title of the youngest sailor who managed to make a solo round-the-world voyage belongs to the Australian Jessica Watson. She was only 16 years old when on May 15, 2010 she completed her 7-month trip around the world. The girl's pink yacht crossed the Southern Ocean, crossed the equator, rounded Cape Horn, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, approached the shores of South America, and then returned to Australia through the Indian Ocean.

Millionaire's bike trip around the world

75-year-old millionaire, former producer of pop stars and football teams Janusz River repeated the experience of Thomas Stevens. He turned his life around when he bought a mountain bike for $ 50 in 2000 and hit the road. Since that time, River, who, by the way, being Russian by mother, speaks Russian perfectly, has visited 135 countries and traveled more than 145 thousand km. He learned a dozen foreign languages and managed to be captured by the militants 20 times. Not life, but a solid adventure.

Jogging around the world

Briton Robert Garside bears the title "Running Man". He is the first to travel around the world by jogging. His record got into the Guinness Book of Records. Robert had several unsuccessful attempts to race around the world. And on October 20, 1997, he successfully started from New Delhi (India) and finished his race, the length of which was 56 thousand km, at the same place on June 13, 2003, almost 5 years later. The representatives of the Book of Records scrupulously and for a long time checked his record, and Robert was able to get a certificate only after a few years. On the way, he described everything that happened to him using his pocket computer, and all those who were not indifferent could get acquainted with the information on his personal website.

Motorcycle trip around the world

In March 2013, two Britons - Belfast Telegraph travel expert Jeff Hill and former race car driver Gehry Walker - left London to recreate the American Carl Clancy's circumnavigation of the world 100 years ago on a Henderson motorcycle. In October 1912, Clancy left Dublin with a fellow traveler, whom he left in Paris, and he continued his journey to the south of Spain, through North Africa, Asia, and at the end of the tour traveled across America. Karl Clancy's journey lasted 10 months and his contemporaries called this trip around the world "the longest, most difficult and most dangerous motorcycle trip."

Solo non-stop circumnavigation

Fyodor Konyukhov is a man who made the first in the history of Russia, single round-the-world voyage non-stop. On the 36-pound yacht Caraana, he sailed the Sydney - Cape Horn - Equator - Sydney route. It took him 224 days to do this. Konyukhov's circumnavigation began in the fall of 1990, and ended in the spring of 1991.

Fedor Filippovich Konyukhov is a Russian traveler, artist, writer, priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR in sports tourism. He became the first person in the world to visit the five poles of our planet: the North Geographic (three times), the South Geographic, the Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Arctic Ocean, Everest (the height pole) and Cape Horn (the yachtsmen's pole).

Russian crosses the Pacific Ocean on a rowboatRussian traveler Fyodor Konyukhov, who has five round-the-world voyages behind him, is currently crossing the Pacific Ocean in the Turgoyak rowboat. This time he decided to make the transition from Chile to Australia. On September 3, Konyukhov had already managed to overcome 1,148 km, and Australia still has more than 12 thousand kilometers of way across the ocean.

The experience of Nina and Gramp, a married couple who have been married for 61 years, is a perfect example for the novice traveler. They packed their bags and created romantic photo session.