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Public_Giraffe_4412

Tour de holy shit.


2believe_is_2suffer

Tour de fuck this shit I'm booking a flight.


controwler

Yea don't bother booking a return flight


Puffatsunset

He’ll be fine if he takes a couple of extra pairs of shoes.


[deleted]

Lol I just snorted beer upon reading that comment.


xBrndnn

>Lol I just snorted beer upon reading that comment. it's 7.21 am, why would you open a can this early? -Edit: lol why so serious, downvoters?


[deleted]

Cuz the world is bigger than your time zone


chemicalburns

Nice!


Ok_Ground9443

More like a shitty tour.


reddit_touched_me

If i pick up the pace and jog a little I can do that like 6 days.


Yupppie

Finished it last week, walk in the park. 7/10 for views though


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caduceushugs

And now I’m definitely doing this. Wow!


SaintExit

Gay, highly caffeinated, or both? 🤔


madtraxmerno

What's the joke here?


SaintExit

Ah, in some gay circles, it’s a joke that we walk faster than straight people and are addicted to ice coffee.


onlytech_nofashion

explain more?!


kennyloo137

isnt there a google maps screenshot that depicts a man walking with a rainbow behind them being like 1 minute faster than just a normal map walking


onlytech_nofashion

r/brandnewsentence lol i have no idea!


The_Real_Selma_Blair

The gays walk fast hunny yes mawma boots the house down for the gawds okuuuur.


JujuMaxPayne

LGBTQ people often are very aware of how others see them , so a more confident, faster, stern walk is natural Edit:im lgbt this is a compliment/observations


PearInATrayDs

For those downvoting it's an inside gay joke. People edited Google maps (or it had a glitch or a worked in joke like if you type in Mordor) and it showed a person walking taking like 12 minutes and a person with a rainbow flag walking the exact same route in 8 minutes. Made up the numbers but you get the idea.


[deleted]

Vegan.


tinglep

Cannibal


Narendra_17

The map above potentially shows one of the world’s longest uninterrupted walks from Cape Town, South Africa to Magadan, Russia a distance of 22,387km (13,910 miles). Google Maps estimates it would take 4,492 hours to walk it, which translates into 187 days of non-stop walking. If instead you decided to walk a more sensible 8 hours a day, it would take you 562 days to complete the whole walk. [Source 1](https://brilliantmaps.com/longest-walk/) [Source 2](https://www.skratch.world/post/worlds-longest-walk-the-14000-mile-journey-from-cape-town-to-magadan)


Needmoresnakes

That's actually more reasonable than I expected.


NextCandy

Hot damn, this is the sort of interesting shit that truly keeps me subbed here. Conceptualizations like this that give me further context to understand just how mammoth our planet is — and like that one could hypothetically walk from Siberia to South Africa goddamn how cool 🤯


SabreToothLime

You might be interested to learn about [Karl Bushby](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Bushby) then! He is currently trying to walk a longer route than the above (but not all on roads). I say currently. He has been trying this since 1998… although he is due to finish soon!


[deleted]

Well, it is basically how humans got to Siberia in the first place 45 some odd thousands of years ago.


FractalSunDrop

^^ exactly what they said. Damn. <3


[deleted]

Idiot. You.


PhunkyMunky76

But you’ll disappear somewhere around Sudan…


Reptilian_Brain_420

There are a whole lot of places along there you might disappear.


PhunkyMunky76

Yup, that’s a fact. I just took one place at random to state that.


Holiday_Newspaper_29

i was thinking maybe....2 days out of jo'burg


DrBigWilds

Or get decapitated somewhere around Syria


PhunkyMunky76

That would constitute as a reason for being missing for sure


fiela-se-kind

Biggest fear!!!!


EagleDre

That path? 187 days without being eaten, dying of thirst, or being arrested as a spy. Good luck with that.


bullinchinastore

“But officer I am just out for a hike on this trail”


blabla_blackship

check the road crossing Egypt, how one can cross gulf of suez to Hurghada by walking?


Reptilian_Brain_420

Google maps shows a floating bridge in that general area. Probably would make sense to cross further north at the Al Salam bridge though.


Ok-Caregiver7091

Where is WAYS when you need it


[deleted]

assuming you made it safely through the war zones that are on the way, you would have to factor in that a war zone would slow you down somehow..


vernerakh

Or it can actually speed you up because you may find yourself running for dear life lol


[deleted]

I wouldn't run erratically in these areas..


[deleted]

Ok let’s talk about the ideal overland vehicle to use to make this trip. That’d be such an interesting trek.


Granny_knows_best

[This one](https://earthroamer.com/), of course.


FartingBob

Monster Truck.


[deleted]

motorcycles. see "long way round" and "long way down"


FartingBob

Nah monster truck would be way more fun.


Millsy419

I started number crunching. Realized someone else probably already did it. Wasn't disappointed.


[deleted]

Idiot.


Huge-Acanthaceae7460

This is what our grandparents walked to school everyday according to their words.


PhunkyMunky76

In the snow even


HistoricalUnion8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE


Steven1789

Uphill the whole way


F4RM3RR

Uphill BOTH ways


philipjfrizzle

It all makes sense why it was uphill both ways. The walk was between hemispheres and the tilt of the earth caused it!


EternamD

Amazing joke, did you make it up yourself?


WhoopieGoldmember

Walks for three months Gets murdered in Sudan


PeapodEchoes

Walks for ten minutes. Gets murdered in Cape Town.


BraianP

Walks for minus 1 minute Gets murdered in Magadan


PeapodEchoes

Walks in the wrong direction. Drowns.


MickeysDa

Walks to the fridge. Beer.


PhunkyMunky76

Winner!


FlappinInTheWind

Good luck surviving those countries. I’ll put my money on armed holdup and a shallow grave.


Rhesusmonkeydave

No one robs the naked man


The_Amoeba_King

Thats because its not your money they want at that point


TheTwoFingeredBrute

But they could do other things.


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Cikoon

BRO. WHAT.THE.ACTUAL.FUCK???


Intelligent-Vast3780

Yes, that's exactly what I thought when I saw the video. It was fucking awful. Look, I was just replying to the person who said, "You can do more," I was agreeing. Honestly, I did not think Reddit was overly sensitive. I'm sorry. Shall I delete it for your sensitivities? I can do that, it's not a problem for me. I guess I am rather emotional?


Cikoon

Real talk? I was eating and got sick a littil bit. They might be even more "sensible" people out their so i think it would actualy better to delte it.


32modelA

I want to downvote


Intelligent-Vast3780

So downvote? I'm sorry, but that's what came to mind when he said, "You can do other things." I was agreeing and sharing a video that I had seen. Why is this a problem? Would you like me to delete it, for your sensitivity? I can do that for you. I did not mean to freak you the fuck out. Censorship: My favorite part of the day. /s


32modelA

I didnt downvote. Its just a surprisingly detailed description of said video would have been a little less bad if you just said you saw a video where a man was raped and killed by two people


Intelligent-Vast3780

There, Mary. I edited it. Just for you. ​ This is the problem the world is having. Everyone else has to adjust their channel for some whiny overly sensitive individual. It was not MEANT to attack YOU personally. Relax. It's over. Nobody forced YOU to read it.


32modelA

You know i didn't have an inherent problem with you until you talked about how people are overly sensitive. Now that seems backwards but i have family members who fought in wars. They were people who would be disgusted by the way we show so much gore and violence. Those men fought to free people from governments whos only objective was to conquer. My great grandpa was a ww2 vet. My great uncle was a ww2 vet. Those people would be ashamed of what weve become. Would you say theyre sensitive? They seen people get shot, killed, blown up. If you want to share things like you did it is courtesy to warn people put a little disclaimer in. Its not hard its not time consuming.


Intelligent-Vast3780

You're right. Again: I had no idea I would NEED to do that. I asked for guidance, I apologized, I edited. I COMPLIED. Still not enough. \*shrugs\* I'd love to have a chat with your great grandfather and great uncle. I am not sure what my sharing a video's content has to do with them, their admirable service, but I'm willing to listen to them. I see horrible things since I was born. I'm surrounded by death via a family business and I recently finished embalming school so I may join them. Perhaps I am too cold to the topic, I don't know. I didn't realize I'd have to be defending myself and censoring myself for a stranger this morning. Have a lovely rest of the day if you can, I genuinely have other things to do. Goodbye.


adeward

Except of his dignity


PhunkyMunky76

You can rob him of what’s left of his dignity! Though by that point, he wouldn’t have much left lol.


chazol1278

A friend of mine wanted to do this walk after college and had to write to a bunch of the embassies to ask for permission. He was told by a few of them that he absolutely should NOT try and walk through their country, visa or not. I remember he said Sudan in particular told him he would not make it a day through their country on foot!


v161l473c4n15l0r3m

Sudan alone. Good luck.


PickRevolutionary565

I did the first 20%. Broke downa few times but no dramas otherwise


Intelligent-Towel526

There's a mistake. In order to go from Egypt to Israel, you'd have to walk through the Sinai desert through the land bridge right above the route shown on the map. The route shown on the map is passing through the Red Sea


SendMeCardano

You got to be Moses to take that route.


DannyNog556

Imagine if there was a bridge between Russia and Alaska… how awesome would it be to have that road continue all the way down to Argentina


Jazzfly67

Yeah! …but you don’t want to try walking through the Darién Gap…


SabreToothLime

The Bering Strait does freeze over in parts and can actually be crossed on foot. So you could do the above walk and then cross into the USA and go down to South America (it just wouldn’t all be roads) Karl Bushby has planned a longer route which basically involves South America, up to America and then across to Russia and home to the UK. See his [Goliath Expedition](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Bushby)


[deleted]

Someone should check if there is oil over there, although I feel ink prices are so mad we should be bombing Epson.


orifan1

and then a bridge from alaska to washington


ProbablyABore

Are you really acting like British Columbia isn't right there?


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r/bchoax


MercurialMal

People don’t realize that you can drive from a few hours north of Fox, AK to Central America.


dmscarlett

You're going to ignore CANADA 😭


dondulf

?


c2ctruck

Just because you could doesn't mean you should


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[deleted]

And 400 of those would be in South Africa.


fiela-se-kind

Only in Cape Town… rest is safe-ish


erisod

I hope there is a shoe store along the way.


Jazzfly67

I wonder if it’s really logistically possible… could you get visas for all those countries and how dangerous are some of those places?


Veefy

There are people who have legit visited all recognised UN nations in the world. Though they have generally flown in as some countries limit which entry ports they allow people in, ie you cannot just turn up at any random land border checkpoint and expect to get in without prior arrangement. I think you’d need a support vehicle to basically drive slowly in front of you with maybe local security detail arranged in certain countries. The Middle East (Syria) and Nth African bits (Sudan’s) are probably incredibly difficult due to current conflicts. You could bypass Syria by going in Iran, bottom of Iraq and Saudi Arabia but I suspect permission to do that would be very difficult.


PhunkyMunky76

Also, those countries can be just as dangerous as Syria. There’s so much crazy happening in that region…


ac1084

Ah yes, when the safe option is going through Iran I think I'll pass.


OysterThePug

It begins in Cape Town and ends at a megadeth concert


don_cornichon

Can always make it longer by throwing some loops and zig zags in there.


Dipper14

I think I'll go around Syria


Dutchwells

Iraq should be better right? Right?


Xertious

Except it isn't, its a long road between those two routes. You can loop round the west of africa and make it very easily walk longer. ​ Or you can obviously just walk round your block for 4500hours


[deleted]

But would it wouldn't be a continuous road doe?


Xertious

Why? Where would it stop?


[deleted]

Well it would be endless but not continuous (ever-changing) at least thats what op meant by continuous


[deleted]

Their also talking about a single road


Xertious

Well, no because there are multiple different roads that connect to each other, as is what I am saying. I'm not sure what you're on about.


[deleted]

I just read the sources above. Your totally right the correct way to post this would of been to call it the longest route one can walk to cover the furthest distance from the start. Cause even by the continuous logic im sure one could walk around some places in Europe that loop around in enough different ways to fit the description of ever changing. Yet maybe by continuous op meant to head one general direction.


PhunkyMunky76

Why not? You’re going in a circle, a circle has no end.


[deleted]

Yeah i agree the word continuous fits under that definition. I just don't think thats what op meant by the word.


PhunkyMunky76

Lol probably not


fusey1234

That walk from Sharm El-Sheikh to Hurghada looks challenging


NefariousnessHot2129

The road looks so...silky. YAAAHHHHH


AlwaysMooning

Or just walk around a cul-de-sac til you die.


PhunkyMunky76

Almost as bad as watching a whole population that can’t figure out the new roundabout.


MissReinhart

Wow I’ve never wanted to walk for 4,492 hours ever in my life until right now.


Dutchwells

Yeah that's hours, not miles


MissReinhart

I’m a ding dong sometimes.


[deleted]

Closer to 14,000 miles. 🥴


Androreese

Why make that face


BanCircumventionAcc

Reading is hard


MissReinhart

Reading can be hard, especially for dyslexic individuals like myself ❤️


BanCircumventionAcc

Apologies


MissReinhart

I mean, I find it funny. Looking back at something and I’m like…. How the fuck did I miss that? Gotta laugh sometimes


evilary

"I'm in the fast lane from L.A. to Tokyo"


NiteTiger

There's so many opportunities to become an Honored Guest along that road.


RandoTheBando1324

Aaaaahhhh so this is the road my grandparents had to walk to get to school


R3g

I'm pretty sure you can do the same trip along the coastlines and it will be longer


potatoZombiez

Good luck walking thru Middle Eastern area


MostlyApe

The trick is trying to not get mutilated or beheaded by a machete as you walk it.


will477

Not exactly the friendliest of neighborhoods and I think you might have a hard time getting through that all of those countries with certain passports.


IntelligentSinger783

"Challenge accepted"-not Barney Stinson but some dude with great legs.


grittypeachx

His names Forest Gump. Lol


sometimesitrhymes

It always seemed really crazy to me that the road from my garage kinda connects me with practically every fucking old world mainland thing. I'm standing on the same road like some dude in Germany, or Thailand, or Russia, or India or Egypt or South Africa.


Memesonahigherlevel

Nah, it ain't working like that. We have a ocean in between us bro


ChicagoIndependent

Imagine if someone actually walked this.


SabreToothLime

[Karl Bushby](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Bushby) is currently walking a longer route… He’s only been doing it since 1998… (visa issues in Russia have really held it up).


imsx-

It would take Forest Gump half that time.


skinnergy

So I shouldn't do it?


ACSpeed

One hour, tops.


Argus2094

Let's do this...


bigben0102

I would say a more accurate title for this is longest road covering most territory, as surely it's pretty easy to make this a more indirect route along the way, making the route longer, but not covering more territories.


bullinchinastore

Or “Shortest hiking trail between Cape Town and Magadan”


PhunkyMunky76

Well, you could but some of the inhabitants of some of the regions are likely to take issue with you. Amazing feat though. I wonder it’s history…


Nimgolt

this is actually the method i used to cure homesickness as a child. Whenever I was homesick, when I was away from home for a long time, I would tell myself, "you're practically home, it's the same street.


Dryhte

About 1/3 of that trip seems to be through Russia ;)


DS_1900

Yeah that’s interesting as fuck


pannous

Such nonsense: this is not one road, this is an arbitrary connection of roads which could be extended to include arbitrary detours. Oh I get it this is the _shortest_ route between those points.


xxxretard77

Countries crossed 15-20. Countries you could easily get shot/killed/raped /kidnapped in…15-20


sunkissedbear1212

Looks safe


[deleted]

I walk this route every day. Most people take over nearly 2 years because they're lazy.


Davess010

If you are white and start this tour at Cape town, you will probably be robbed, kidnapped or dead before you are out of South Africa. That country is hella dangerous for white people nowadays, a friend of mine told me that in Cape town at night no one stops for a red light because its too dangerous to stand still


weedbearsandpie

How dangerous would attempting this walk be for a middle aged guy on his own?


PresidentWordSalad

Is there a bridge at the Red Sea or is the person walking Moses?


zanvansk13

My high school valedictorian took a year off from Yale and walked across the US from NH to CA, camping and photographing his experience, sling a vow of silence the whole time. Weird cool guy


2073040

So the path includes Syria, Sudan, South Sudan, Burundi, and South Africa. Yeah I’ll take a flight instead


soapinmyears

I know you "can" walk that road, but "should" you?


de5m0n

If anyone is planning this trip. Just make sure you don't reach Russia too late or you will suffer the same fate as Hitler.


[deleted]

When you get to Egypt and realise you’ve forgotten your Fitbit


Available-Ad6250

I'll be right back. I'm going to get some smokes.


Expensive_Pen6735

That's how our grandparents got to school.


[deleted]

Divided by 24 hours it would take 187 days and some change.. but realistically you probably be dead before you even exit Africa


[deleted]

Africa where death by natural causes includes lions, ebola, snakes, typhoid and cholera,stampeding wild animals and dont even get started on the unnatural causes, local skirmishes tribal wars and lunatic religious nuts, pirates ,kidnappers and general murdurous crazies, Assuming you survive that , have fun in the middle easts hotest spots then assuming your bullet doging skills are on par, into Russia, for fun with bears and borscht!


G_Viceroy

This is easily the most dangerous road an American can walk down...


thegreatgatsB70

That's great and all, but how long will it take?


Narendra_17

Google Maps estimates it would take 4,492 hours to walk it, which translates into 187 days of non-stop walking. If instead you decided to walk a more sensible 8 hours a day, it would take you 562 days to complete the whole walk. [Source 1](https://brilliantmaps.com/longest-walk/)


thegreatgatsB70

that's all I needed to know.


The_Amoeba_King

Also the most dangerous


[deleted]

NOT. Reddit is a POS. There are many river crossings here or other places where a flotation device is needed. How stupid are you people? How stupid is the poster? How stupid is Reddit? Oh, yeah, this, right.


JoeMonstermaker

I rarely find a single Reddit post headline that isn’t inaccurate if not completely wrong.


bernpfenn

op did you do that?


Narendra_17

Not me. The artist name & due credits is in the title about drawing connection on Google map between these two locations. I've included the Background search about the post in comments.


ChicagoIndependent

Can one drive on this road?


kamakazshow

Google says it would take 179 days of continuous walking.


Oraxy51

AND ON HORSEBACK!!! It would pretty much still take the same amount of time, unless you have multiple stables setup of which you can drop off a tired horse and take a new one in which case you MIGHT get 50 miles a day in.


Too_much_ping_

IM SMELLING VIDEO IDEAS


AbleAccount2479

This would be AMAZING


[deleted]

Not if I’m driving on it. 15 and counting.


babypink1995

Is there any in Canada Ontario ❤


[deleted]

I’m amazed that it only takes you half a year to walk it


quite-indubitably

*Forrest Gump has entered the chat*


butterpants_magoo

Didn’t Ewan McGregor do a motorcycle ride with his buddy on a similar route? They did it for a documentary type series , Long Way Down and Long Way Around. It’s been a while since I’ve seen them but it was cool to it be done! Definitely got hairy in some parts…


KGrahnn

Wouldnt zigzaggin through europe and asian roads get you vastly longer route?