Our Head Organizer, the Game Master a.k.a. Princely Jeyachandran opens up about the last ten years of heading the Rickshaw Challenge operative. Spoiler: It all started with a wedding…. How long have you been the head organizer of the Rickshaw Challenge? Everyone has the luxury of so many things and we act superior or inferior according...Read More
The Rickshaw Challenge – Malabar Rampage 2016 has ended and some of our participants agreed to sharing their experience with our rickshaw racers to come. So, prepare yourselves and heed the warnings, because the next Rickshaw Challenge is starting in June! The interview was conducted with with Steffen Hammelmann from Team Beauty and the Beast...Read More
Day 5: With a distance of 260km from Calicut to Mangalore, a tiring day lay ahead of our participants, but the reward was something they all coveted: on Wednesday, they would finally leave Kerala and enter the state of Karnataka, where it wouldn’t be as difficult to find a cold beer after a hard day on the road. So, the...Read More
Today, our teams were flagged off from the Government School at Mallikatte, starting the route from Mangalore to Murudeshwar. Before embarking on their journey, however, our 38 participants had the opportunity to make new friends and share stories with the youngsters studying at the school. It was wonderful to see how the kids lit up...Read More
The first Rickshaw Challenge of 2016 has officially ended. A journey full of adventure, excitement and laughter, our participants will continue on their travels rich with new life experiences. And now, here are the updates of the last few days of the Rickshaw Challenge we all loved so much. Day 5 The destination being only a short...Read More
Our sixteen awesome teams are about to embark on a truly amazing adventure after spending the day in Chennai, Tamilnadu. Their first stop is the beautiful Puducherry, which is 155 kilometers from the starting point. Their last and final stop will be Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. With teams of two ranging to four, they will be experiencing...Read More
One of the toughest three-wheeled adventures in the Travel Scientists’ repertoire, the Mumbai Xpress is an ambitious feet from Mumbai to Chennai, a journey that traverses most of South India and the better part of 2000km – all during the infamous monsoon season. As our nutty teams kick off from India’s largest metropolis, are they...Read More
Seems like not even a day can go by without some action in the 2015 Deccan Odyssey, but that’s the whole point of this wonderful adventure, isn’t it? In case you were wondering about what happened in the first four days, here is our recap so you can be as up-to-date as possible. Day One:...Read More
The Deccan Odyssey is on the horizon, starting in just a month and a bit, so to hype things up a bit we want to introduce the Deccan Plateau to you. This large stretch of land, taking up most of central and south India, lies between the Western and Eastern Ghats, the Nilgiri Hills in...Read More
Everyone knows that time flies past when you’re having fun, and this year’s Malabar Rampage has been no exception. The past days we’ve spent flying up the Malabar Coast in a three-wheeled rickshaw has been an adventure, tackling blockades and strikes in Kerala to shaving foam attacks by some of our crazy Aussie participants in...Read More
