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Chinese group traveling worldwide in RV reaches Guyana
A group of passionate young people from China and Taiwan who dared to achieve and complete their dream of travelling 200 countries driving a Recreational Vehicle (RV) reached Georgetown yesterday. They were previously in Venezuela.
What started out as a group of 12 in two RV’s has now shrunk to four as the group pursues their global travel. Their names are Wujingyi, Chun-Hung Chen, Shuotiao and Hambin Chen.
The group with their RV parked in front of the Guyana Revenue Authority building yesterday with their Guyana guide, Haleem Khan.
The lifetime journey all started on May 19, 2012 in China. Since then, the group has traveled through four continents, crossed three oceans and visited 45 countries and more than 170 cities in an RV.
Some of the countries covered included Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, USA, Mexico, Cuba, the Bahamas, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
“At the beginning, our plan was to travel 60 countries in 600 days, but we will mark two years next month, and the plans have changed. We wanted to see more. For now our plan is that we need 20 months more since we already visited 120 countries,” Hambin Chen, one of the members of the group explained. “In college I started acting and directing so I am now a director.
I am very interested in doing a documentary… This is my first production and this is just a dream we all share, I sold my house and my company and this documentary is not for business it’s just for the passion and memory. But if somebody is interested in buying it I have no problems with that either.”
“Many of my other colleagues gave up, some because they couldn’t get their VISA because for China passport, most of the countries we visit need VISA, and there was a case where somebody had a traffic accident causing them to drop out,” he lamented.
He continued: “We don’t have sponsors or any government helping us, but we have met a lot of friendly people, in Guyana we have President of the Guyana Cuba Solidarity Movement (GCSM) Haleem Khan who is helping us tremendously… we are thankful to meet good people in various countries.”
The group plans on visiting Suriname after leaving Guyana, then to French Guiana, Brazil and further afield.
The adventurers noted that their plan is to visit nearly 40 countries in the southern hemisphere in about one and a half years. Marking a new record as the first Chinese group that has visited the most countries by driving in an RV on a single trip. “In the next one and a half years, we will carry on our planned journey to visit 60 more countries.”
Their world trip has been reported by many Chinese as well as international media groups. They have more than 150,000 followers on the number one social network in China, Weibo, and Twitter alike. In the course of their journey, they continually provide professional photographs and articles to magazines, websites and newspapers.
After the end of their trip around the world, the group plans to share their entire journey, experience and memorabilia collected in an exclusive museum, and opened a photography exhibition to share with people the whole world trip.
President of the Guyana Cuba Solidarity Movement (GCSM), Haleem Khan, said that he met the group while on a trip in Cuba and recommended that Guyana be visited since it would enrich their experiences because of the six races that also include Chinese.
“Guyana can be described as a cultural melting pot. This is manifested in so many of our national festivals where Guyanese from all ethnic and cultural backgrounds turn out by the thousands to celebrate. And during their stay such information can be gathered as part of their documentary, there is something powerful and contagious about our culture which we must all cherish and be proud of,” Khan explained.
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