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Evening Standard
Travel
Lydia Swinscoe

I backpacked Nepal and India like the Race Across the World teams — here's what I learnt

“You are now leaving your comfort zone” is the tagline for the latest season of Race Across the World, and upon learning which countries the show's five teams will be travelling through, I couldn’t agree more.

While I’m yet to visit China, I’ve spent over six months travelling through India (on three separate occasions), and a month in Nepal where I hiked to Annapurna Base Camp as well as getting to know some of the same towns, and routes RATW’s teams are passing through, on their way to Kanyakumari in India.

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