Singapore to Denmark overland solo | 26,000km, 18 countries, 3 months | All roads lead to Noma
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2017
- From April 2016 I travelled from Singapore to Denmark overland solo over 26,000km, 18 countries and 3 months to visit the four-time world's best restaurant, Noma. You can read more about my trip at www.allroadsleadtonoma.com. A year ago today I arrived at the restaurant.
It had always been a dream of mine to visit Noma, so when a friend jokingly suggested we try and get a table, I said "yeah, and I'll get there by land" (I was studying in Singapore) ...and then I realised I wasn't joking. I decided to go all-out and make a website for it.
How much did it all cost? About $4,500 AUD ($3,500 USD) for 3 months on the road. This includes accommodation, travel, visas, gear and food. Keep in mind I was travelling very cheaply: hostels, hitch-hiking, couchsurfing, street food - I slept outside a few times, so that was free.
Was the meal worth it? Yes!! Without a doubt the best meal I've ever had - check out my blog post about it for pictures (allroadsleadtonoma.com/day-93-....
Thanks to everyone I met along the way - whether I met you in a hostel or you let me sleep on your couch or you gave me a ride, the most memorable parts of this trip were the people I met.
I do not own any of the soundtrack, property and rights for audio go to Depeche Mode and Iggy Pop.
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*gets to restaurant*
*note* "sorry closed for good."
Gets to restaurant
Reception - do you have a reservation ?
Lol he fucked up
Well at least he enjoyed the 18 countries trip
*Ends life*
Probably are better food on the way. So it's all good
this route sounded so familiar, especially the destination. Then I remembered, we were stuck together all night on the turkish-bulgarian border waiting for our broken-down train and ended up doing shots of jack.
nice to see you made it to Denmark.
There's nothing quite like duty free liquor
@@ThatGuyYouArent
So how did you ask your supervisor to let you go on vacation this long???
😂
I mean if you work in a company, no way someone can be on leave for vacation this long.
Unless your self employed.
We all dreamed of this moment that we can travel around the world without having to worry about work and other things but only few people can make it.
We're all jealous of you guys, man.
Just remember this.
Most people are not as free as you, man.
And it's a shame 😞
@@norpriest521 Here in Australia if you save up your annual leave over a few years you could easily do a trip like this.
Mandated by law, all employees at any business are given at least 4 weeks of paid leave a year if the employee is working full-time.
Some business even give more days/weeks to entice people to work for/stay at that business. How much you're paid depends on the employment contract and your industry's Modern Award (a workplace agreement put in place by the government).
Your paid annual leave accumulates as you work and accrues over the years, if you want you can take the 4 weeks in a block or take a week here and there or if your company allows it you can save it for longer trips (although some companies "strongly persuade" you to take at least 2 weeks of leave so it doesn't accrue as much).
Leave has to be approved however by your company but once it is your company can't just revoke the approval and they cannot refuse a request without a valid reason. If you quit or even if you're fired your company has to pay out any outstanding leave.
Also your company cannot fire you without a valid reason and taking leave definitely isn't one, if your company has been found to have breached workplace agreements they can be fined and sued by the government on behalf of you, on top of having to backpay what they owe to you.
@@KordasNJR Yeah most private companies here expect you to take the 2 weeks I mentioned and also the 2 over the Christmas/new year period (you don't have to but and can take leave without pay if the company shuts down over that period) so most people don't accrue that much, however most will let you to not take that and accrue it if you put a request in a year out for leave for say 6-8 weeks so the most I've seen anyone in the public sector take is 8 weeks. However public sector doesn't care as much so you can accrue it over decades and take years of leave at a time
Wait, so you two know each other?
Love how simple this is. We’ve all seen so many overproduced cinematic vlogs, and this just felt so much more down to earth 😅
Yeah, he filmed like and average traveller and made a 6 min video out of it.
yeah I went into this hoping it wasn’t one of those “epic” overproduced gopro vids and I’m glad it wasnt
yep, or a daily vlogs from the trip, I like content that I can consume that fast :)
Thank you! It was a lot of fun to travel. I hope the video gave the same impression ☺️
On the contrary, I respectfully disagree - if I’d embarked on such an epic trip and come out of it with just these lazily patched together clips, I’d feel pretty disappointed. Huge missed opportunity.
My dad: This is how we went to school back then
😂
Uphill both ways...
You are a balkan guy :)))
Headwinds and uphill both ways, 1 meter of snow, 1 ski and 11 younger siblings, carrying the youngest on the right hand and fighting the wolfs with the left hand, for meal we smelled the piece of potato what was passed to me when father died.
The real feat here is being able to clip it down to 6 minutes. KUDOS!
😂
0:11 The route
0:13 Leaving Singapore
0:15 Bangkok
0:16 Lumpini park, Bangkok
0:18 Train out of Bangkok
0:19 Bangkok - Siem Riep
0:20 ...and hungover Eastern Europeans
0:22 Bangkok - Siem Riep
0:23 Angkor Wat tuk-tuk
0:24 Fish Market
0:24 Buddhist temple
0:26 Probably illegal
0:27 Saigon scooters
0:29 Canals
0:30 River boat to homestay
0:33 Saigon
0:35 34 hrs Saigon - Hanoi
0:40 Vietnam - China border
0:42 e-biking around lake Erhai (Dali)
0:49 Around Shaxi
0:51 Cycling around Shaxi
0:56 Bai Long Tan/White Dragon Pool
0:57 34 hrs Kunming - Beijing
0:58 Mu Tian Yu - Great Wall
1:03 Da Dong Roast Duck
1:05 Beijing Trans-Siberian departure
1:08 China - Mongolia border
1:11 Ulaanbaatar
1:12 Terelj National Park
1:24 Arm-wrestling the locals
1:34 Ulaanbaatar parade
1:39 Mongol horses
1:40 Bouncing through the steppes
1:45 The 'mini didg'
1:48 Goat party
1:50 More steppe
1:52 The 'mini Gobi'
1:55 Entering Russia
1:57 Pigeon mating dance
1:58 Lake Baikal
2:10 Irkutsk - Krasnoyarsk
2:12 'Middle of Siberia' (Krasnoyarsk)
2:15 Stolby National Park
2:30 61 hrs Krasnoyarsk - Moscow
2:46 Finally in Moscow!
2:53 Bored accordion player
2:56 Fountains
2:58 The Kremlin
2:59 More fountains
3:00 Somewhat large
3:03 Kremlin interior
3:06 I am super under-dressed
3:08 Hello, fellow kids
3:12 Gorky Park
3:14 Moscow summer
3:16 31 hrs Moscow - Vladikavkaz
3:22 Hitching the Russia - Georgia border
3:25 Kazbeg church
3:26 Stepantsmida and the Caucasus
3:28 Chaotic Tbilisi
3:30 Georgian Countryside
3:39 Georgia - Azerbaijan border
3:45 Thanks, Graham
3:46 Georgia - Azerbaijan border
3:48 Woof
3:50 Mestia
3:58 Entering Turkey
4:02 Mount Nemrut
4:08 Hitching 8 hrs Malatya - Kayseri
4:10 Thanks Gökhan!
4:13 Cappadocia
4:18 Cheeky chickens
4:24 Uçhisar citadel
4:26 Dawn hot air ballon
4:39 Underground City
4:42 Pamukkale
4:49 Hierapolis
4:51 Hitching to Fethiye
4:53 Kabak - paradise!
4:59 The Mediterranean - first ocean since Vietnam!
5:05 Kabak
5:10 Hitching with Cansu
"Hello"
"We are in Turkey"
"and I can not English"
"very well"
5:18 Ferry to Istanbul
5:19 TV guy
5:21 Blue Mosque illuminated
5:22 Blue Mosque
5:26 Market
5:28 Police on the phone to mum
5:29 Ferries
5:32 Fish market
5:33 Iftar meal
5:35 Pide wizard
5:37 Bulgarian sunflower fields
5:38 Opera practice
5:40 German football victory
5:42 Couldn't get a ride hitching
5:43 Slept in field
5:45 Lubchu the pigeon trainer in Skopje
5:51 Skopje - Belgrade
5:54 Budapest
5:55 Prague
5:57 Berlin
6:01 Germany - Denmark ferry
6:02 At long last...
6:04 Denmark!
6:07 Meeting friends at the restaurant
6:10 Made it!
Great job👌
This comment is under rated wow 👌👌
I’m wondering why he didn’t include Malaysia in this video. Like seriously travel from Singapore to Thailand by the waters? That’s almost impossible. The irony is that he already said this is all overland. So he must’ve been to Malaysia
@@AdibBusku he probably didn’t take many pictures of some places. Being the Czech person i am, I was waiting for pictures of Czech Republic after seeing it on the route but I only got 1 picture of a place that i’ve never been to. It was good video overall though, and it was kept short.
Who is the most impressive guy in a restaurant?
The Waiter. He just brings so much to the table
😂😂😂
r/woosh
@Johnston Steiner you dont get the joke
Yo thats a pretty decent one for a date
You suck
26.000km overland..... starts off in a boat.............
There are no walkway crossing from Singapore to Malaysia :)
Never Lucky m8
Well you can take bus or private hire taxi.... I went to Singapore once and took a bus to Johore to explore the city of Johore Bahru as part of my trip there
Travels solo 26.000km around the world....gets corrected by the internet police for using a slightly different video title.
There's SBS Transit bus service 160 and 170 that goes from Singapore to Malaysia, but only in Johor Bahru.
BoneDisturbed no
I’m 16 and i also want to travel the world when i’m older. It’s one of my biggest dreams ever since i was little. This just inspired me even more!😍 the world is so beautiful and I can’t wait to discover the beauty of this world❤️
Heyyy Im 16 too and I just feel the same. I want to make a giant road trip from my home to morrocco and then from there all the way to China and Singapore, maybe Indonesia. Of course with visiting all those places in between. That's my biggest dream
My favourite sub-genre on UA-cam is just seeing people travelling across continents.
and im too lazy to order chinese
can't even say "chop suei" ?😂😂😂
@@ltong1999 you can't even spell it 😂
Okay okay, I will write it properly, in the original, 雜碎!
😋😋😋
Sooo, no copy strike for the music used in this video?
@@ltong1999 雜碎 means "miscellaneous" 😂😂😂😂
i love the way this video was edited, i never lose my interest
Truly inspiring! No unnecessary commentary and introductions, just great footage and a true sense of adventure. So simple yet so much was packed into it!
Georgian countryside looks like the place they shot the Windows XP wallpaper at.
it was actually a Californian hill that was used as the windows XP wallpaper
Georgia is much prettier and dramatic than that
@@aaronlane8276 And now its overgrown, unmaintained, and trashed by these "famous" 15 follower "instagram stars" taking pictures on it aka sitting on the grass, jumping around, taking shits left and right. Classic American tourist attraction.
My dream would be to do:
- Pekin > Berlin
- Vancouver > Montevideo
- Marrakesh > Cape Town
Vancouver to Montevideo is just a little difficult, because there's a space in Central America, with no road connections.
Yeah it's basically just a drug area that there's no feasible way to get through
@@theMark5445 someone did it. He went from Argentina to the us
Same here only the last one tho from Marrakesh to Cape Town.
you can transport your car from Panama to Columbia via ferry. And yes there is no road through Darien gap
Your small clips for important moments depict you video graphed using a mobile and were more focused on ENJOYING the trip rather than flying drones everywhere over everything 😛.
I love how this captures the essence of these different places in such a organized, chronological way, thanks for uploading!
Great video - Brings back memories. In 2001 we did almost the same exact trip, the other way round, by bicycle! Didn't have a video camera back then, though. That's why I like this video.
bruh moment
Don't pay any attention to anyone who bad mouths or second guesses you. It was your trip not theirs. You are an inspiration to those of us with a passion to see the world. Thanks for posting this
The first video I've seen this year that made me smile this much :) Thank you.
This is amazing. You saw more on this journey than the majority see in a lifetime
Georgia is truly beautiful
That irony when the author of this comment is Georgian :d
I ❤️🇬🇪👍
Fantastic video. Pictures are so clear and makes you so happy just watching it. Great job and thanks for sharing.
One of the coolest videos i‘ve ever saw
I can see you really enjoyed Turkey
I guess because he got lots of "konukseverlik". I've never met a turk who wasn't konuksever.
I can not English :D
Teşekkurler!
I can not English nothing olması lazım very Well yanlış olmuş
* Englishes like a pro *
Sen miydin o 😄
Evet ama İngilizcem var trollüyoduk fjjdjfjd Alex'le 3 gün beraberdik anlaştık bi' şekil :d
Oh dude that's awesome! thanks for all the good pictures
what a birthday treat awesome vid!The day u published this is my birthday!
This is amazing!! I’m from Singapore and this is such goals for my graduation trip!! Gonna start saving up :P
Thanks Gökhan!
Avradini o nasıl bir isim la
Ladies and gentlemen, that's how people travelled in pre Covid times. Missed this time so much and wait till all boarders will open
Very beautiful video ! Quite quick and not boring ! Congrats
What a beautiful world we live in. All of the great culture you've seen; I envy you!
Turkey was definitely on your bucket list, liked every bit of it
I love this. Love how it was filmed, edited, everything.
Wow that was great!!! Really enjoyed that!!!... and the music was great too!! Well done btw!!!
Legend says he's still travelling back to the place where he started.
5:19 Nihat Hatipoğlu
This is extremely motivating! Thank you for sharing your amazing story!
Very nice and honest video. Thanks for sharing your journey!
Dude I've just watched your video and it's just amazing 😍
I just wanted to know how do you do to do this? Is it expensive? How long does it takes to be organised? How did you deal with your work/studies?
I would love to travel like you did
Hello fellow kids!
Wow great adventure! New friend here with big like and bell
Really well done! Amazing journey and perfect editing.
@Alex Adamson I'm impressed with your journey.
Brother how did you apply for entering Visa from All these countries ???
Adam singapurdan gelip NİHAT HATİPOĞLUNU İZLEMİŞ VAY AQ
Edit: (Ben daha üsküdar dan kalkıp sultanahmete gitmeye üşeniyorum 😂)
Baja hatipurlülakasr aekális balavais a kshavauied ükskdy & ajahakabsksbsua
alex kesin cenabetlidir o sırada. :D
Hahahha
Ben oyun oynarken toilette gitmeye uşeniyorum:)
Ugly language
awesome video. You made it look easy but we know that's probably not the case. Thanks for sharing the best moments of the journey, it's truly inspirational!
Great video man, thank you for uploading it
How the heck do you organize this kind of trip? And how expensive!?
Hi, I want to learn how to organize a trip like that too.
ua-cam.com/video/y1JhjFWvMO0/v-deo.html maybe this video will help you
I don't think he planned it out fully, he probably winged most of it
Supongo que improvisando
Nice watching your video.
I'm planning to travel the other way round next year. We are going to visit relatives in Krasnojarsk and I want to take the transsiberian to Beijing, with stops in Irkutsk and Monggolia as well!
Do you have any tips like what to see and where to stay?
I can highly recommend Irkutsk, especially in the summer. I stayed in the Belka hostel in Listvyanka, a beautiful wooden building. Make sure you try the smoked omul and golomyanka, they're amazing. I wrote more about that here: allroadsleadtonoma.com/day-33-irkutsk-lake-baikal-and-smoked-fish/
In Mongolia I stayed at the UB Guesthouse (hostel of choice for Peace Corps volunteers), which was great. Would recommend a Terelj National Park overnight trip, and something longer if you have time (usually either west to the steppes or south to the Gobi)
Beijing, make sure you eat chuar with a large Tsingdao!
You're stopping in Irkutsk?
That's my city!
Liked and subscribed: We were planning a similar trip for this fall. Your video really makes us hope somehow we can still do it. We really enjoy all the people we meet along the way. Great video
Inspiring, I’ve just finished a month solo trip in Europe with interrail. Respect
dapechmode kept me here
What a small world
Dope video! I bet that was so much fun
Love the video! Love the oldskool music!
Your path was a bit too northernly, was expecting India to pop out. (Also, your whole journey is so sunny, and having arrived in Denmark... *clouds of depression* )
So awesome!! Would it have been possible to cut through Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan?
Yup, I think it would have been possible - but I was on the Trans-Siberian. I'd love to go to central Asia, I think I'm going to try the Mongol Rally next year!
Really nice video. I have never been to any of these places but thay look nice and friendly. Thank you.
This looks incredible. Well done. Hope you had a great experience.
Is there someplace where your itinerary can be seen, and maybe what it cost in each place?
This is as close as I have to a budget: allroadsleadtonoma.com/the-plan/budget/
Outside of those fixed costs, though, I'd estimate about $20USD/day averaged over the whole trip - $15USD/day in Asia, up to $30-40USD/day by the time I reached Scandinavia
@@ThatGuyYouArent Your page seems to be broken. Can you provide a replacement please, if possible.
@@RoSi4You Thanks Robert - I got slack with WordPress and the site got overrun with malware. I've uploaded a backup - it should work correctly now: www.allroadsleadtonoma.com
Turkey looks,it is best part of journey
yav e
How said my turkish guide - there are 2 most beatiful places on Earth - motherland and Turkey.
Definitely better than most places in Russia
Turkey?😂😂lol is dirty and stinks everywhere
Sons of a bitches stop shitting my country. Turkey doesnt stink and we dont kill anyone; morons!
Well done mate!
Amazing. I subscribed. Just for this MOTIVATING... SIMPLE
STRAIGHT 2 the point Video
💯💯💯
Mediterranean is not an ocean...
pipois its a sea:))
caspar valentine Oceans are giant masses of water that seperate continents far apart. The Mediterranean is a sea.
It’s connected to the Atlantic, so it may be a sea but it’s still technically apart of the larger Atlantic ocean
MemeingfulSiblings the Atlantic and Indian ocean are also connected so does that mean that those are the same ocean?
@@LeoN-nu7ch the Pacific ocean too
Dammit im so jealous of you
An experience you will treasure for the rest of your life. Well done.
This is sooooo amazing and an inspirationnn!!!!!
1:59 This woud be a bountiful wallpaper =D
Yeah, I can definitely see that as a wallpaper everywhere. Very bountiful. ☺
4:54 would be beautiful too
you mean pigeons?
@@commentersatoshi8148 4:58 / 4:59 seem to be better spots
Hi from Antalya :)
Greek and armenians ancestrial homeladn
@@Hussar-bt8sv There is no more greek or armenian in Turkey (except 10-15k).
@@Hussar-bt8sv invaders got invaded
Great vid! Congrats on a great trip.
This is so inspiring! ❤️
"The Mediterranean Ocean"... The Vietnamese Ocean?
He meant Pacific with Veatnamese i think but Mediterranean is not an ocean.
Ocean is not ocean in english
Yes its a sea
Its ok dude, he's not brown
Silk Road 2.0
Im literally proud of you
Congratulations👏
Amazing video Alex :)
I wonder how much money you need for a trip like this one
4000 AUD according to his link
You gave chicken meat to CHICKEN?! 😂😕😲
:))))((((:
This is absolutely amazing!
This is so cool. Thank you
Awesome video!
When and how did you research where you were going to stay each day? Any tips for a first time traveler/backpacker hoping to do a similar kind of trip? Also, how was your time spent abroad in Singapore? What University did you stay at and would you recommend studying abroad there?
Very convincing! Few more questions-
When did you have time to travel so much during the academic semester? I read you traveled all over SEA during the exchange.
Was it fairly feasible to go somewhere new each weekend? Any places would you recommend for only a spring semester trip?
At what point in the application process did you decide where you were going to live (on campus)? Finally, what classes did you take and are there any you recommend taking?
The trick is optimising your timetable - I only had classes Tues-Wed-Thurs, so I effectively had a 4-day weekend every week. And there are quite a few opportunities to travel longer: mid-semester break, recess week ('exam study' week), mid-year break, public holidays etc. I was lucky, though, in that I was studying on pass/fail, so my GPA didn't transfer back to my uni degree in Australia. I just had to pass my subjects in Singapore - which I did!
100% top recommendation is Penang, Georgetown. Best food in the world, in my opinion. The southern Thai islands are also very nice - Koh Tao, Koh Phangan, Koh Samui etc. Hoi An in Vietnam, the Hai Van pass. Sapa and Hanoi up north. Tioman Island in Malaysia is super close and very pretty, too.
There's a housing application *about* 1mo before you arrive in Singapore (can't 100% remember exactly when it was). Stay in UTown if you get in to NUS. If you're studying business, consumer behaviour is excellent, as is negotiations and bargaining. Can also highly recommend new venture creation and new product development. Get involved with clubs on-campus - radio is fun. Food in Japan is also a fun class. Hope you get in!
What made you decide to go through turkey instead of poland?
More exciting route than just passing by a shithole/mexico of europe
Poland is the Mexico of europe?
Yea that seems a bit harsh.
I realised I'd be in Moscow with about one month to go, so I could either spend that month going through Belarus/Poland/exploring Russia more or head south through Georgia and Turkey. I really wanted to see Turkey, so that's the path I took. It ended up being one of my favourite countries.
I would love to visit Poland one day though, it looks like a lot of fun
Yeah, why insult Mexico.
I travelled overland from the UK to Thailand in 1972 and back to UK. I was away 6 months. The whole trip including flying in and out of Burma (because no land border entry at that time) cost me £350.
Amazing how you managed to condense all this down to 6 minutes!
Greece watching you visiting almost all neighbor countries 🇬🇷 : *Am I a joke to you?* 😅
05:04 Mediterranean is not a ocean. Its actually a sea
Which is connected to the Atlantic Ocean.
@HT also connected to the Red Sea
@@nab.7250 Do we really have to be explicit ?
This looks so amazing!
Only just seen this video and it’s amazing. Was hoping Cappadocia/Uchisar would be on here and they were. One of the most beautiful places i’ve ever been to
"Overland"
Later in the video: "Ferries!"
AngelPandaEarth using ferries in Istanbul to cross the Bosporus is very common. Some take them daily on their way to work. It’s not like crossing an entire ocean. Look at a map and you’ll see.
Half of your journey in Turkey . Welcome !
Good stories you motivated to going to travel too!
Great video, love the Depeche Mode, and the Passenger by Iggy Pop! This trip must have taken a lot of planning.
you also been in bursa?
thats my hometown xD
I was in Bursa this summer, wonderful city, lots of history as well! Merhaba from a Norwegian!
MyTrickyTricks i live in Norway aha
Bursa'nın neresindensin?
@@uygar173 Mudanya belediye
@@TheBaris02 Dedem de orada yaşıyor, gerçekten güzel ve sakin bir yer şanslısın dostum :D
I like the sharp turn south to avoid ukraine and Belarus.
haha
I don't think that it was the point. I'm Ukrainian, travel a lot (not these 2 years, of course), for now I have visited about 45 countries. And I can assure that both Ukraine and Belarus are quite interesting. Our region can't be compared with Georgia and Turkey, it's quite different, yet we have a lot to offer as well.
Congrats buddy. I hope someday to make at least half of this trip :)
Wowww..so amazing..eventho hv passed 5 yrs but still relevant. Hv dream to do but many commitment. You made it..!
Wow your so rich and where is malaysia photo !!! 😁😁😁
He skipped the trash so no Malaysia.
Malaysia is Mordern, From Singapore to perlis Maybe Only use Highway
In the thumbnail it looks like she went through malaysia
@Rikiishi Its something against a country,not the race.
@Rikiishi Ok
#1 highlight: pigeon mating dance
That's Russia for you.
As a singaporean I’m truly touched that you would come so far to visit the restaurant
Great Vid Man 😎