Ajay Reddy
Introduction
I travel. Usually in not so regular
ways and usually on small budgets. And many times with a challenge in mind. I
also start travel challenges. I try to do one big travel challenge every year,
besides more frequent shorter trips. In 2010, i did a month long hitchhiking trip
in the north-east of India (blog at hitchhikingindia.com),
2011 was the year of a sponsored roadtrip by Skoda and a failed plan for an autorickshaw
ride on the east coast of India (eastcoastride.in).The
latest travel challenge I started is called go-UNESCO. The challenge is to
travel to all the UNESCO world heritage sites in Indiain 2012. 50 people from
across India participated and wrote their experiences on the website http://gounesco.in.
My motivation
I like adventure sports a lot.
However, most adventure sports cost a lot of money - which I am usually short
of. So, I took to the next most interesting thing - adventure travel. Traveling
on tight budgets does give you some adventurous experiences. The motivation
behind go-UNESCO was a tweet with a picture at a UNESCO heritage site. The text
there said - "How many have you been to?". And I thought, why not do
this as a challenge - that's how it started.
I am proud of
The go-UNESCO
project is definitely my favourite achievement. It's incredible to see so many
folks joining up for the pure joy of traveling and without any other incentive.
That I was able to provide a spark, makes me very happy. The team has travelled
over 2,00,000km all together now.
Roadblocks
Money, time and like minded travel
partners are the main challenges.
How it all plays out
I usually post my travel plans on couchsurfing.org. If it is a long travel
plan, I post the overall plan on indiamike.com
as well. I prefer to travel with one or two people only and avoid big groups.
Some of my friends are good travelers
and fun to travel with. But I travel and stay with strangers too as that gets
me to know more people and hear their experiences too.
How I recover from all the travel
There are very few types of travel
that require a recovery period, but my hitchhiking trip did require on. So i
did what relaxes me the most - travel some more!
My motto
Travel more, the world is not enough.
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