Want To Travel The World But Don't Know How? Here¡¯s How To Decide What A ¡®World Tour¡¯ Is

Travelling the world is a common ambition that many share. Most people want to see the entire world at some point in their lives - but the world is actually 7 continents, 196 countries, about 25000 cities and approximately 60 lakh thousand towns. It is implausible to be able to cover each one. There are also various ways of connectivity - by land, sea and air; also by road.

It is basically difficult to agree on one set definition of ¡®touring the world¡¯. Various enterprising people have done it in various ways.

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For the water babies

there are various ways of travelling the world and the seven seas. Emily Richmond, a woman in her early thirties, has set on a solo trail to sail across the world. She took out her boat ¡°bobbie¡± almost seven years ago from the Los Angeles coast, making her way through Mexico, Costa Rica, New Guinea, Sri Lanka. She is not on a fixed schedule, and chooses to stay for short to long durations at places she likes. She considers her world tour not as one long journey, but as small short trips going on for years. She stops where she likes, and then decides on her future course.

On the other hand, Laura Dekker became the youngest woman ever to sail across the world in just two years. The Dutch girl started from Portugal, went across Panama, to Indonesia and across Africa to Australia. She scheduled about twenty six stops along her journey.

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The Volve sailing race is one of the world¡¯s oldest across-the-world sailing competitions. It suggests that participants make eleven stops across five continents over a year. These stops often change every year, therefore changing the route.

For those who may not fancy the sea much

There are other ways to get around the globe. Tom Davies, a London-based boy, completed an 18,000-mile-long bicycle journey across the world. The then nineteen-year-old took about seven months to complete his expedition. At an average speed of nineteen miles per hour, he would travel an average of a hundred miles a day. His world tour consisted of going across four continents and seven countries. He would cycle between various interconnected countries, and then take flights to the next scheduled continents, and continue cycling.

Similarly, Karol Voltemar, of the famed ¡®world bike travel¡¯, covered about 73,000 kilometers on the cycle between 2013-2016. This trip covered 64 countries. People from various parts of the world joined him during various segments of his journey.

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The Guinness book record for cycling across the world is currently held by New Zealand man Andrew Nicholson. He started from Australia, and cycled across North America, Canada, Europe, South East Asia, back to Australia - taking flights where there was no connectivity by road.

If you want to venture by foot

If this sounds like serious work, take a look at Jean Beliveu. The Canadian man has travelled the world by foot. It has taken him eleven years to cover six continents. He has visited about sixty four countries in this time, and walked across. Starting in the August of 2000, in Montreal, Canada, 45-year-old Jean walked all the way to Costa Rica. This took him a year. He then walked along the coast of South America, finally taking a flight to the tip of the African continent. He then walked up to the North of Africa, crossing on to Asia. By the seventh year of his expedition, he had travelled halfway across Asia, all on foot. He then crossed on to Australia, and from there flew into North America. Finally, he walked across it back to his homeland.

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He says he stayed with about 1600 families during this time, and used about fifty-four pairs of shoes. He had started off with about four thousand Canadian dollars. Since the money was not enough, he relied on help from strangers and claims to have even spent a night in jail. He would walk about twenty miles a day, and has gathered many rich experiences along the way.

Covering the world for leisure would be best done through flights. They are the quickest form of travel, and many lucrative ¡®around the globe¡¯ destinations have been earmarked by travelers. It may not be the most exciting form of travel, but it is the quickest. Visiting different lands is always an enriching experience. There is much diversity to witness and enjoy.

Travelling across the world is a hobby, a sport, as well as a government funded initiative. There are different routes to go across the world. These differ based on the objective of the traveler, the mode of travel, time at hand and the budget. Although, one thing is certain, that even though there is a plethora of options, it seems very difficult to replicate the cinematic exploits of travelling around the world in eight dollars, or in eighty days.