{"id":562,"count":20,"description":"The Ultimate Train Challenge was a feat of sheer lunacy and adventure. Partnered with two other travel bloggers, we co-created the train-journey-to-end-all-train-journeys: 30 days, by train, from Lisbon to Saigon.\r\n\r\nStarting in Lisbon, we each had 17 days to make our way as and how we wished through Europe to Moscow, where we reunited and boarded the Trans Siberian (the longest train ride in the world) to Beijing. Hot on the heels of the longest train ride, we followed up with the fastest train ride (at the time) from Beijing to Shanghai. From there on, it was a series of (at times, painstakingly) slow trains through China and Vietnam to our final debarkation point: Saigon (Ho Chi Minh city).\r\n\r\nTo keep things interesting (if that weren't interesting enough), we spiced up the challenge with a scavenger hunt (for experiences, rather than things, given that we three were full-time travelers lugging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/the-ultimate-packing-list-for-full-time-travel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">everything we owned<\/a> along with us) and some tours and experiences along the way when we weren't choo-choo-ing along.\r\n\r\nMy Ultimate Train Challenge adventure is far from the only crazy thing I've done on trains; I also rode 16,000kms of trains in Australia, took the train across Canada, and many more long-distance epic journeys. Much of it has made fodder for my book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/travel-tips-resources\/tales-of-trains-journey-destination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tales of Trains: Where the Journey is the Destination<\/a>.\r\n\r\nPlease enjoy this collection of posts (scrolling down takes you from end to beginning) about my Ultimate Train Challenge adventure.","link":"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/category\/ultimate-train-challenge\/","name":"Ultimate Train Challenge","slug":"ultimate-train-challenge","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ultimate Train Challenge - The Professional Hobo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ultimate Train Challenge was a feat of sheer lunacy and adventure. 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