(CNN) — Would you journey midway internationally by bus?
The bus will cross 18 international locations over a interval of 70 days, with passengers hopping off to marvel on the pagodas of Myanmar, hike the Nice Wall of China and wander historic cities together with Moscow and Prague. The picture above is an illustration from Adventures Overland, depicting what the bus would possibly appear like.
Adventures Overland was based by entrepreneurs and enthusiastic vacationers Tushar Agarwal and Sanjay Madan.
“It’s a completely incredible journey,” he says.
Since founding Adventures Overland, Agarwal and Madan have organized three India-to-London expeditions, during which vacationers deliver their very own vehicles and journey in a convoy. The duo has additionally organized driving journeys throughout snowy Iceland and over frozen lakes in Russia.
They’ve had some unimaginable experiences, however Agarwal and Madan have been eager to do one thing a bit completely different with their newest tour.
“There are lots of people, vacationers, who wish to expertise these overland journeys, however they do not wish to drive,” says Agarwal. “So, we got here up with the thought of placing collectively a bus during which folks can sit comfortably and go on lengthy distance journeys. And that is how the thought of the Bus to London was born.”
Cross-continental odyssey
Adventures Overland founders Sanjay Madan and Tushar Agarwal have accomplished this journey on multiple event.
Courtesy Adventures Overland
The inaugural Bus to London journey is ready to happen in mid-2021, Covid restrictions pending.
“One of the best time to do that journey is between April and June, as a result of that is when the climate is favorable to begin the journey from India by way of to Myanmar, and to cross the excessive mountains of China and Kyrgyzstan,” explains Agarwal.
This street journey would not come low cost — Agarwal says it’ll value round $20,000, however you possibly can decide to simply do a part of the journey, which is split into 4 legs.
Plus, you possibly can choose whether or not you wish to begin within the UK or India — as soon as the bus reaches London, outward passengers will journey again by air and the car will flip again round, kickstarting a return journey with a brand new group of 20 vacationers.
Agarwal guarantees it’s going to be the journey of a lifetime, describing how unimaginable it’s to see countryside morph and alter in entrance of your eyes.
“That is type of an expertise you possibly can solely have if you’re doing these sorts of overland journeys,” he says.
He provides that previous contributors on Adventures Overland’s self-drive model of the expedition have included vacationers as younger as 5 and as previous as 75.
“It is a tried and examined route,” says Agarwal, who stresses it is designed to be as secure as attainable, including that native guides additionally be part of the occasion as every border is crossed to help with journey logistics.
Since saying the thought, Agarwal and his crew have been inundated with messages from vacationers all over the world — some 40,000 folks have registered curiosity to date.
“We have been anticipating a superb response, however we weren’t anticipating a response just like the one which we have obtained,” Agarwal says.
For anybody dreaming of becoming a member of the crew on the 70-day journey, he advises approaching the journey with “an open thoughts” and “open coronary heart.”
“It is a life-changing journey, one thing that folks will all the time keep in mind and they’ll cherish it endlessly.”
