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Coconuts, potholes and hidden lagoons, today’s Rickshaw Challenge activities took our participants off the beaten track into the heart of rural India, to shore temples and sacred elephants, so far off the tourist route that you become the attraction. Day 6, Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu Based for two nights in the fishing city of Tuticorin, our...Read More

Recovering from a hectic New Years party, our teams spent most of the day in bed, while the braver members of the Rickshaw Challenge Classic Run 2015 explored Madurai’s colourful temple. After taking it easy on our rest day, the convoy of rickshaws headed down to the fishing town of Tuticorin on the coast. Mostly...Read More

On the last day of 2014, we leave Thanjavur for Madurai, exploring the epic Living Chola Temple of Brihadishwara before visiting a village tile factory and contenting with shoe stealing monkeys at Tirumayam Fort. While everyone made it to the New Year unscathed, one of our rickshaws didn’t. Day 3, Thanjavur to Madurai The road...Read More

Leaving the cyclone behind, day 2 on the Rickshaw Challenge took us away from the coast into deep Tamil Nadu, into the mysical world of ancient temples, goats that eat everything, friendly locals, terrible roads and of course, more breakdowns.  Day 2, Pondicherry to Thanjavur  After a night of partying, most of our teams slumped...Read More

Days before the Rickshaw Challenge sees in its 9th year, the Classic Run 2015 kicks off from Chennai with the tail end of a cyclone for companion. As our participants drive a rickshaw for the first time, they have to contend with Chennai’s crazy streets, heavy rains, breakdowns, among all the other obstacles that make...Read More

‘Stoopid Tall‘, a 14-foot-tall bicycle built and ridden by Richie Trimble of Los Angeles. Trimble recorded his nerve-wracking adventure with a GoPro camera that was attached to his chest.Read More

Using hand shadows without digital effects, this video has been made to promote Calcutta as a destination. It weaves through the various sights and sounds of this historic city, all the time enthralling the viewer with the fantastic morphing of the hand.Read More

‘The food is mind-blowing, the music is brilliant, the temples are inspiring and the shops are incredible. The people I met were also – without exception – extremely kind, thoughtful and very philosophical about life.’ Lost in Delhi, film by Myles Thomp.Read More

Go on a ride with team Ruby Murray from the 2009 Mumbai Xpress: “Meeting at a car park near Juhu Juhu beach, we all drove the last 800 meters to the Marriot, our finishing line, together. A very sad last part of the journey as we’d had so much fun that it was a group...Read More

The spirit of adventure that brought 27 people from from around the world together to drive three-wheeled auto-rickshaws across India finally culminated at Mumbai’s JW Marriott in on 13 August 2009. Divided into 13 teams, they braved the city’s infamous traffic travelling from Alibag in the final leg of the 2,000-km four-state rally, which brought...Read More