PANGEA ONE WORLD EXPEDITION
After the successful 25,200km Gondwanaland Expedition undertaken in 2006 – from the Indian Himalaya to Cape Agulhus, the southernmost tip of Africa – the celebrated explorer and author Akhil Bakshi now sets out on the 35,000km Pangea One World Expedition – an overland journey from the Arctic to the Antarctic.
Starting from Deadhorse Creek on the Arctic Ocean in Alaska, the four-month journey will end at Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America
"Gondwanaland Expedition: March 24 - June 28, 2006"
the Gondwanaland Expedition will explore
areas that comprised the mega-continent of Gondwanaland when India was a
part of Africa 265 million years ago. The expedition, to be undertaken in
three jeeps, will start from Kanya Kumari, the southern tip of India,
and end at Cape Agulhas, the southern tip of Africa traversing
United Arab Emirates, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia,
Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland
and South Africa over a four-month period.
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A
12,000 km motoring expedition across the old Silk Road through
Uzbekhistan, Kazakhastan, Kirghiztan, Chinese Turkestan, Tibet and Nepal
that renewed the old cultural and academic links between the people
of this region and India.
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expedition report
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A
10,000 km motoring expedition across Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar and
India that refreshed the national memory with the sacrifices made by the
soldiers of the Indian National Army. Undertaken to commemorate fifty
years of India's Independence.
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A 18,000 km motoring expedition and mass-contact programme across Sri
Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, India and Pakistan that promoted peace
and development in South Asia.
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