The 5000 Project

The Blog

The purpose of this blog is to document my upcoming travels in which I will be attempting to travel overland (car/bus/train) and by boat from bali (Indonesia) to london (United Kingdom) with no more than $5000 australian dollars.

The Challenge

The purpose for the challenge is to firstly prove to myself that it is a lot cheaper and easier to travel great distances over a lengthy period of time through asia and parts of europe than what many people assume, while at the same time ensuring that the experience is forfilling, culturally nourishing and eventful; and secondly to inspire many of my friends that it can be done while having fun and gaining a ton of perspective on life, it is simply society’s comfort barrier which restricts us from making this step.

The Travel

The purpose of the travel is to see the beauty of some of the poorer yet culturally unique parts of the world before they are assimilated by western and corporate influence.
In addition to this, the what seems to be nigh inevitable global warming scenario within the next 40 years will leave many of the world’s coastal areas flooded, with other areas suffering intense weather disruptions. I would like to take a mental snapshop of the currently blissfully beautiful world of the present day, before things turn bad.

The Author

I am a passionate traveler with a keen ambition to see and experience the world through the eyes of the people within the many different cultural backgrounds, having set forth on a similar adventure in 2008 which involved traveling overland through south east asia and china for 3.5months for $3000 and a 7kg backpack