With the progress of science and technology and changes in transport, making our subjective that the world has become smaller and smaller, traveling around the world travel is also nothing strange thing, but you have seen riding a wheelbarrow travel people ? Yes, there is such a young guy, riding a wheelbarrow alone through the Eurasian continent.
This year just 21-year-old British boy Edward Pratt, more than a year ago from the British Somerset's own farm, riding a modified medium-sized wheelbarrow all the way east, through the European countries, warfare in West Asia, Central Asia this year At the beginning of the year finally came to China, from the northwest border of the Horgos port entry.
The British Ed made this crazy is his own reason: he hopes to ride around the world by riding a wheelbarrow, attracting more people, raising money to help those African children, buy some bags of stationery and so on.
After entering China, Ed do not have to worry about human war like the risk, but the western China terrain is very complex, there are dry and cold plateau, sandy desert, there are numerous uphill mountain road and corners, even years of driving experience Old drivers, not so easy to cope with the complex road conditions here, not to mention the wheeled treadmill torture nuts it?
Along the way, Ed's favorite place of a camping is this much higher than the ground bridge hole, no big truck through, sleep at night very comfortable. Ed also through hundreds of tunnels ranging in size, nocturnal riding is also commonplace.
The last few days, in order to be able to arrive at the scheduled time in Kunming, Ed in 25 hours, riding 210 km, the moment to rest, Ed tired paralyzed in bed.
A person's travel is more like a practice, 21-year-old Ed in this journey is the growth of life and the new insights.
Fortunately, this road Ed met a lot of wheelbarrow counterparts, and the last one is the British Will, two people in Lanzhou to Chengdu meet.
Uncle Will's plan is wearing a superman's clothes, riding the whole world, two like-minded weirdo together, really can not do anything normal. Ed and Uncle Will on the road encountered no one with the basketball, then Ed's medium-sized wheelbarrow waste tires turned out, tied to the basket, as a ball box, playing a fake basketball.
Two people also happened to meet the Tibetan people to celebrate their traditional festivals - Tibetan calendar New Year, in the Tibetan people to celebrate the New Year.
At this moment, the wheelbarrow journey continues ...