Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about The World Photo Tour

My name is Mihai Tufă, I’m 26 years old, I was born in Vaslui, Romania and I lived in Harrogate, UK. On the 16th of February 2012 I started walking on The World Photo Tour. All the journey, a little under 60.000 miles (which is a little under 100.000 km) will probably take me seven to eight years to complete, but I’m not in a hurry.

In doing so I want to contribute with a little something back to this world, fundraising for three organizations: an international one – WaterAid, a Romanian one – Princess Margareta of Romania Trust and a British one – British Heart Foundation. If you would like to donate and contribute towards reaching my 100.000 pounds goal, you can do so by clicking the corresponding widget on the right sidebar. Your kind donation will reach the charity directly.

If you want to be an angel and help towards keeping me on the road and to have more stories to read and photos to browse before you go to bed at night, you can do so via PayPal on the cause/support/donate page. I will be grateful for your kindness. Every little helps.

My route for The World Photo Tour started in Harrogate. At large, the road will take me South to London and then Dover, from where I will get on the continent in France and continue my route through Europe towards Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark. Back to Germany then, heading South-East towards Austria. The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary will follow, after which I will enter Romania, my home country. I will spend a couple of months there to get all my visas and shots so I can continue my journey. I will then keep walking towards East through Moldavia, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, the goal for the middle leg of the Asian journey being Nepal and India. From there, the route would follow the Indochina countries, towards Australia. After Australia and New Zealand, the Alaska – Tierra del Fuego leg will follow. Africa will come next, from South Africa to Morocco, following its East Indian and North Mediterranean coasts and then back to Europe: Portugal, Spain, France, then Ireland and finally, back in the UK. The whole journey will be leg powered, minus the ferries, boats or planes when crossing the oceans.

What else? I usually sleep four hours at a time.

I am happy, but what matters is being fulfilled. Huge difference.
I only eat once a day. A lot.
I can make people smile, I can make people cry, just like anybody else.
I don’t hate anyone. Just cannot do it.
I’m not great with people, nor words, nor photography, and especially nor walking. I only do what I can, what I know, what I learn.
I believe in life. I believe in people.

You can follow my adventure and ‘walk’ around the world with me either on this blog, or via twitter (@mihaitufa), Facebook, or Google+1.

Please feel free to leave comments, pieces of advice, tips and/or anything else on the adventure’s blog. I look forward to reading and the support will no doubt spur me on through the tough days ahead and will make my sunny days even brighter.

For press or any other enquiries, please follow the details on the Contact page.

Thank you for your time and support,

Mihai
Walker, photographer, writer for theworldphototour.com