Three daring best friends embarked on a “most inconvenient” adventure after driving more than 11,800 miles from Scotland to Iran in a tiny car with no air conditioning. That was before travelling a 1,700-mile journey to India rickshaw described as a “lawnmower on wheels".
Daniel Patton, 22, and his best friends Joe Fisher and Callum Kitson, both 23, originally mapped out the epic journey to cross 20 countries, avoiding air travel to complete it entirely in a 1999 blue Mazda they bought for just £1,050. The expedition would see them heading form Duncansby Head lighthouse in north-east Scotland to Kanyakumari, in the very south of India.
The friends, who met aged 15 at secondary school and went to university together, bought the Mazda in June 2022 from a car dealership in Leeds, West Yorkshire. They decided it was “completely unsuitable and perfect”, and budgeted to spend roughly £18,000 over the duration of the trip for the car, fuel, food, accommodation, visas and repairs.
