Bristol, UK-based travel company The Adventurists is known for offering more distinctive experiences than two weeks on a Balearic beach. Founder Tom Morgan was responsible for the birth of the Mongol Rally, in which teams set off from London in the cheapest, oldest car they can find and have to find their way to Mongolia any way they can. You’ll find more of these kinds of outlandish exploits on The Adventurists’ website, one of which goes by the name of the Rickshaw Run.
The general premise is that groups navigate their way across the notoriously treacherous roads of India using only a flimsy, seven-horsepower rickshaw. The write-up on The Adventurists’ website warns, “the only certainty is that you will get lost, you will get stuck and you will break down.” The chances of getting lost are increased by the fact that the journey follows an “un-route,” which means that “there’s a start line and a finish line. Everything in between is up to you.”
As you can probably tell by now, details are sketchy, and that’s just the way The Adventurists intend it. The only thing you really know is that your rickshaw adventure will be raising money for FRANK Water, a charity which works to provide sanitation for India’s poorest people. The team behind The Adventurists has as big an appetite for socially responsible initiatives as it does for eccentric travel “itineraries,” and for that they should be applauded.
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