Tracing Tea, the international collaboration of four students and a film crew who have a love of tea strong enough to survive 15,000 km in three-wheeled auto-rickshaws, celebrates the 350th anniversary of tea’s introduction to Britain. The expedition will trace stories entwined with tea, tales of espionage, warfare, philosophy and medicine. Concerned that Land Rover’s...Read More
Fourteen teams of world travelers will kick of the New Year 2009 with an epic 11-day endurance race which will see them making their way across southern India in auto rickshaws. In what is hailed as “An amazing race for the clinically insane“, the 2009 Classic Run is an endurance motor rally organized by Chennai...Read More
After a flag off from the hotel driveway that led smack into the middle of typical Indian street chaos, teams were supposed to make an easy trip requiring only 3 turns to get to the next school visit. On the way, many were lost, stalled by the adventure of refueling or just misdirected by locals...Read More
The Flag off ceremony held in St. George’s Indo-English school and orphanage, a 300 year old series of buildings, set the stage with colorful tents, a RedBull arch, jugglers and speeches. Participants placed the final decorative touches on outrageously designed autorickshaws, from the Disco bottle hanging from Compact Pussycat’s rickshaw, to the bell pull used...Read More
