If you’ve got $20,000 for a bus pass and some time to kill, two Indian entrepreneurs have a deal for you: an eighteen-country ten-week trek across 12,000 kilometers of highway and byway from Delhi to London.
The two, calling themselves Adventures Overland, have pitched it as a hop-on, hop-off experience, but it’s not clear how long you’d have to wait to hop on again if you let the bus go somewhere along the route from India, Southeast Asia, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, China and several ‘stans’ of Central Asia.
Although the bus will be a luxury vehicle with room for only twenty passengers and their footroom, most nights will be spent at luxury hotels along the way, part of the reason for the big ticket price, which includes all guides, visas, fees and meals. The wheels on the bus go round-and-round…for a long time!
It does not sound like a very direct route. Delhi to London via Thailand? And, yes, a timetable would be handy if you are waiting at the bus stop.
I wonder under which country’s legal terms the ‘contract’ would be drawn up. Sounds highly aspirational, possible but I don’t think I’d want to be the tour leader.