To undertake a trip like this there obviously has to be something driving you to undergo such a time consuming and challenging project. For me its several things. First and foremost my motivation is to get a real and unfiltered glimpse of the world. To experience the complexety, the negatives and the positives about countries and the humans who inhabit them. We are thaugt by the media to fear countries such as Iran and all the «Stans» beacuse of secular incidents and the actions of these countries governments. But do governments of a country really represent the rest of the population? I refuse to believe so. Our fear of the unknown shows how much power the media has to make us fear something we have very little knowledge about. We pretty much only hear the negative news from many coutries and never hear about the positive things that happens in the same place. The goal with this blog is to give you a glimpse of how i experience the countries i travel trough as a whole.
Another big motivation is to experience what it was like to travel the world before we had any form of motorised transportation. We say these days that the world has become small. You can go to any remote outpost on earth within 24 hours thanks to our highly developed and efficient aircraft industry. But what about everything in between? I think overland travel using your own power to move will give a greater understanding of just how diverse, complex and massively vast our planet is.
I have based my route through Asia on the ancient silk road. This ancient trading route stretched from China all the way to southern Europe via Istanbul. The carvavans on the silk route exchanged obviously silk and other material things, but it also exchanged knowledge, religion, craftsmansship and culture. To cater to the travelling caravans locals created caravanserais along the route. A caravanserai is a building where travelers had shelter, could buy food and had opurtunity to exchange goods with each other. Many of these caravanserais still stand today, some renovated and some in dispair. I hope to visit many of these sites along the way to create a better understanding of what kind of hardship people went through to get from A to B in ancient times
Norway to Nepal 