After 90 years, Leshan Chinese boy 50 thousand yuan ride 18 countries to earn money by diapers.
Leshan guy Yang Huaiyu shows his visa. Hao Fei shot
Yang Huaiyu, who used to be a TV seller, has a dream of traveling around the world. In order to realize this dream, he quit his job and set foot on the road of riding with a sum of 50 thousand yuan. He traveled from Asia to Africa in a year and a half, riding 18 countries. Next year, he will start again and plan to ride 10 European countries.
he is after 90, from the countryside, high school did not graduate, do TV sales, the established life should be to earn money in the city, but he has a heart to travel around the world. A bicycle, one hundred kilograms of heavy luggage, came together for 50 thousand yuan, lasted a year and a half, he crossed Asia, Africa 18 countries. Next year, he will start his journey again, riding 10 European countries. This is the story of 23 year old Yang Huaiyu's brave dream.
the TV documentary made him move around
"when I sold TV, the show was a documentary film" Animal Planet "by BBC. Look at it every day, feel good yearning, thinking that you must look at it in person. Yang Huaiyu's dream of traveling around the world began. He grew up in a small town in Qianwei, Leshan. After graduating from high school, she came to Chengdu for television sales, earning 6000 yuan a month.
in 2010, he took a trip to the Sichuan Tibet line and used only 3000 yuan a month. This trip made him feel that it might not be as hard to travel around the world as it was not imagined. In the Spring Festival of 2011, he began preparing for cycling in Asia and Africa. His savings and friends sponsored a total of 50 thousand yuan.
he learned English for 2 months before riding. Because of poor foundation, he was assigned to study classes with his mother. "Originally, I took 4 English books on the road, but later I threw them all away." Yang Huaiyu said that along the way, he met all kinds of riders in the world and began to communicate in English.
by washing diapers for children and staying at cheap hotels abroad
, in May 2012, Yang Huaiyu left Guangxi for the first time in Vietnam. After he changed his bicycle, he could carry his luggage, tent, gas stove, iron pan, fishing rod. The luggage was weighed 100 Jin, including 2 pounds of medicine. However, Yang Huaiyu said that these drugs were not used by themselves, but they saw people who needed help along the way and gave them to them.
most of the time in the trip, he built camp and cooked meals himself. In Africa, when he meets a lake, he will go fishing with fishing rods, and then buy hot pot dishes at local supermarkets in China and cook a boiled fish. Because the local vegetables were more expensive than meat, he ate 2 jin of beef every day, and he gained 20 pounds.
in addition to tent, sometimes he will choose to stay. In the Vietnamese family, the parents also pulled out four or five daughters and asked him if he wanted to marry one. "In Thailand and Kampuchea, you can stay in the temple, have water and electricity, and you can eat chicken legs." Because of the sales background and strangers, Yang Huaiyu's strong points, almost all of his requests for lodging, have not been rejected. In Calcutta, India, he stayed in a place of RMB ten yuan a night, but the condition was to wash diapers for children during the day.
met a Japanese female rider and arrived in China for the Spring Festival
in a year and a half of the journey, Yang Huaiyu made many friends. When he was living in a youth hostel in Cairo, Egypt, he met HANA, a Japanese backpacker. Under the influence of Yang Huaiyu, HANA decided to become a rider. "I picked her up and picked up her equipment in Cairo. Unexpectedly, on the first day of riding, 70 kilometers away from Cairo, she bumped into a large truck, and everyone was free. Yang Huaiyu said, unforeseen out of the division, let two people temporarily change the journey, he settled HANA in the local family, himself with the wrecked car back to Cairo to repair. In this way, he rode with HANA for three months and rode from Egypt to Kenya. In this year's new year, HANA will go to Yang Huaiyu's home for the new year.
in addition, Yang Huaiyu also met a more than 60 year old British uncle who was also a riding enthusiast. When he was with Yang Huaiyu, he taught him English, Yang Huaiyu's words, and he wrote patiently on his hands or legs. In October of this year, after arriving in Cape of Good Hope successfully, Yang Huaiyu returned to Chengdu by plane. Now he is preparing for next year's trip. This time, he will ride Europe.