Great piece from The Travel Word on the top 5 rickshaw adventure travel out there. ‘Get ready to tell the best stories about your time as a rickshaw pilot, because we’ve found the top five rickshaws that you are actually allowed to drive. Since 2006, the Rickshaw Challenge has been serving up rickshaw driving trips...Read More
John Bradshaw and Dylan Raw-Rees, team ‘the dragon flys’ have just returned from an experience of a lifetime in India. They were competing in the annual charity Rickshaw Challenge – an endurance event of over 1000 miles through some of the most formidable roads and spectacular scenery that western and central India can offer on...Read More
Congrats to Cris and Gilberto, team: ‘momofuku sultan brahim’ on their amazing accomplishment, winning the Rickshaw Challenge Mumbai Xpress 2011. The 14-day, 2,000 km (1,200 mile) rally which was was flagged off July, 30 in Mumbai ended in Chennai on August 12. Read more about team ‘momofuku sultan brahim’ experience hereRead More
Rickshaw Challenge – Mumbai Xpress A foreign participant (lower R) of the Rickshaw Challenge-Mumbai Xpress 2011, seen clad in a full-body suit, walks past decorated auto-rickshaws during a stopover in Bangalore on August 10, 2011. The 14-day, 2,000 km (1,200 mile) challenge consists of fourteen auto-rickshaws with 31 international participants travelling the coastal parts of...Read More
Rickshaw Challenge – Mumbai Xpress 2011′, a unique adventure on auto rickshaws with participants from across the globe, reached the city of Mangalore on Tuesday August 9. A formal function was held at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Government School, Mallikatte to mark the occasion. The chief guest and participants inspected the classroom furniture and toilets...Read More
Teams of 31 international rickshaw racers taking part in the Rickshaw Challenge Mumbai Express-2011, who set out from Mumbai on July 30 and set to reach Chennai on August 12, will leave for Mysore from Mangalore on Tuesday. The racers, who have formed 14 teams will cover 1,919km in their 14-day dash where they see...Read More
The residents of Shiv Nagar, a remote village in northern India have changed the village name to Snapdeal.com Nagar. Snapdeal’s CEO Kunal Bahl found that a $5,000 investment would install 15 hand pumps that would make it so the villagers wouldn’t have to walk miles to get clean water. The result was life-changing. The villagers...Read More
TD Waterhouse investment advisors Matthew Phillips (left) and Tristan Sawtell will be taking part in Mumbai Xpress, a two-week, 1,900-kilometer race across India in rickshaws to raise funds for Round Table India. Sawtell, 28, is an investment advisor with TD Waterhouse, and he will be competing in Mumbai Xpress – a two-week, 1,900-kilometer race across...Read More
The Rickshaw Challenge is a proud supporter of ‘the slow road to India challenge’: In these days of international travel, a journey from Nottingham to India doesn’t seem that remarkable. But when that journey involves three men crammed into a tiny rickshaw and driving nearly 6,000 miles at 20mph, it’s something of a challenge. Sanjay...Read More
Team ‘urban hikers’ describe below their experience on the latest Rickshaw Challenge Deccan Odyssey 2011 adventure! ‘Goa to Bombay. Seven Teams. Eight Days. Monsoon Rains. It’s the Rickshaw Challenge! To learn how to drive our new ride we were led to the local parade grounds or what some would call a swamp. The monsoon rains...Read More
