Hello,
while I am reading Jules Vernes novel "Around the world in 80 days" I started to wonder if a world tour in a similar style is still doable today.
With similar style I mean the following requestions:
- No airtravel. Planes were not invented yet so all travel was done by either ship, rail or other forms of land-based transport.
- The journey can not be prearranged. Tickets for a part of the journey can not be bought online in order to have whole planned route fixed in advance. Preferably, tickets are bought section by section.
- No depending on someone randomly taking you with you. Commercial services only. I mean that you can not be taken by a guy who is sailing across the Pacific with his private boat.
- The Journey obviously needs to be completed in 80 days.
Starting in Europe I believe it is very much possible to get to at least to Japan while abiding to the requestitions.
Crossing North-America also seemes possible to me.
However, what is stressing me are the crossings of both the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
In order to cross the Atlantic Ocean I thought about a route via Greenland. Unfortunatly, I found no ferry connections from Canada.
Other routes do not come to mind. Similarly, crossing the Pacific seemes undoable.
I thought about taking a cargo ship and I know that some companies offer to take tourists on board but I found none offering Atlantic or Pacfic crossings.
Therefore my question:
Is a world tour without airtravel still doable and if so, in 80 days?
Thank you for your help! ❤️❤️❤️
Edit: Thanks for the answers. I was aware that the Queen Mary 2 is still crossing the Atlantic but as I was unsure on spontanous you can book it, I thought about opting for a different route. The current geopolitical situation aside, it seems as the real bottleneck is crossing the Pacific. Some of you offered some ideas that i will look into.