To paraphrase The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, you may think it’s a long way down the Pacific Crest Trail to Mexico, but that’s just peanuts compared to what Bangladeshi hiker Saiful Islam Shanto has planned. At 10.30am local time this Friday, March 22, starting from in front of the National Parliament Building (Jatiya Sangsad Bhavan) in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, Shanto will go on a world tour on foot.
Yes, he’s planning on visiting all 93 of the member countries of the United Nations (it’s unclear if he’ll be visiting the two recognized nations of Vatican City and Palestine too) and he’s estimating it will take him around 12 years to complete the entire journey.
