Top 10 Journeys

1. Staying warm inside the Trans-Siberian Express in winter

2. Any Nepali bus ride. The theme park thrill of a bus with no brakes swinging around a mountain road is awesome. The feeling of still being alive on arrival is even better.

3. The train from Beijing to Pyongyang. The excitement of entering the Hermit Kingdom brings out the child in the most jaded traveller.

4. Addis Ababa to Nairobi on a truck. Watch the mountains give way to low lying tribal lands and later, admire vast expanses of nothing as you bounce along one of Africa's worst roads.

5. The vomit-inducing ferry from Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar. OK - the journey here is awful but the reward of arriving is so fabulous that even getting there seems like fun later.

6. Exploring Nepal's jungles on the back of an elephant

7. Watching the sun rise as you cross the Andes in a rickety old bus

8. Ignoring the cynics and cruising the Yangtze as it winds through the Three Gorges

9. Embedding your nails in the dashboard as a capable driver takes on the countless hairpin bends of the Sani Pass, connecting Lesotho to South Africa

10. Emptying ash from your boots on the Ruta de los Volcanes hike in La Palma

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"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move" - Robert Louis Stevenson