Vladislav Ketov is a person who has really developed and implemented a project of the first trip made really around the world (land) along the coastline of the continents. This was a cycling trip lasting 20 years! Unaccompanied he traveled to Europe, Africa, south and south-east of Asia and both Americas (except Arctic coast) and left behind 144 000 km.
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The trip started in 14th, May, 1991 from Leningrad. The main transportation mode was a bicycle as the most affordable kind of eco-friendly transport.
The trip becomes even more unique as Vladislav has no money. During his traveling he earns by drawing portraits.
He tells that in all countries he was welcomed and people were kind and hospitable.
For 20 years the bike was stolen only once. Guess in which country? Bingo! In Russia!
The key problem was money and documents. It took 5 years for procurement of visas in 93 countries, Vladislav has 10 passports.
In 1991 Vladislav left his wife and two sons for 9 years in St. Petersburg …
In 2003 the tourism-sport union of Russia appointed Vladislav to a grade “Outstanding traveler of Russia” for making this “unique, first in the human history trip around the globe along the coastline of the continents”.
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nice
Awesome!
Crazy!
The wife and kids must of drove him nuts to leave for 20 years.
Probably. She must be a nuclear nagger.
Wow! Very impressive!
Nice to see a Canadian flag on his bike too!
Very very cool.
That’s really impressive.
once met a man who started cycling from gb, down to gibraltar, via the coastline to cape of good hope, india china and then to his homeland japan where i met him. at that moment he had about few hundred kilometers to go until hometown. he had been on the road for 3 years and had his bike stolen more than once
What is the Canadian city indicated on the far east of the North American continent? My Russian is terrible, but I think it says Nataskuin, is that right?
Natashquan
He passed by Irak and Pakistan, in these times?
We need shots of him riding it over the oceans!
I wish to be his bike seat
Heinz Stucke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_St%C3%BCcke
The original “around the world bicycle guy”
Congratulations! English Russia is now banned on the Internet. I had to route through a darknet to get to this website.
Seriously? I just type in englishrussia.com (form Latvia)
Rasputin
can you show or tell me how English Russia is banned on the I-Net ? I can not access it from work but i can from home and wondering if what you say has something to do with why i can not access from work
thanks
He is only kidding. The site is not banned anywhere. This is an ongoing joke here now, so don’t take it seriously. You probably can’t access it from work because your employer has put a ban on all sites that have nothing to do with your job; a very common practice.
Lol
MT, i’m also sorry to inform you that Santa Clause doesn’t exist
Why hasn’t he been to Australiayet? It has awesome scenery for bike riding and he hasn’t ridden the coastline of every continent until he’s done Australia
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you have obviously never heard of Heinz Stücke. Started riding around the world in 1962 and so far has cycled more than 539,000 kilometres and visited 192 countries. russian arse kicked by a German yet again
Still smarting from the aschloch kicking the Russians gave Germany in WWII?
LMAO!
englishrussia.com is now banned……so is the north side of Russia and Canada ridable?
Give this guy a small DSLR and an 18-200 and hes got another income source. He could take pictures of so many things
Hi This is a excellent outdoor site and found the page helpful,this will my events specially when im trying to win,cycling is the sport and no wonder why it has exploded in the last decade.
I envy him and his life.
Will the day come to me when I’ll leave my bike trails
on the five continents of this globe.
From a bit of over sea bike tourist of Japan.