Forbes (Asia): Historic Overland Journey From 1955 Gets Resurrected

(…) Officially called the Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition, it was the longest overland journey ever made at the time. The trip took some six months, much of that time spent traversing rugged terrain, navigating bone-jarring roadways or blazing trails across Iraqi desert or through Thai jungle. The journey would be immortalised in literature and on BBC television (…)