29 Jan 2025

Heading Off: A rickshaw race through India's west coast

From Afternoons, 1:45 pm on 29 January 2025

India is one of the most exciting, challenging and vibrant countries you can visit, but would you choose to spend two weeks of your life in a rickshaw to see it?

Kiwi adventurers, Ellen Richardson, Fiona Sandford and Clair Scott with their rickshaw in front of the Jaisalmer Fort in India.

Kiwi adventurers, Ellen Richardson, Fiona Sandford and Clair Scott with their rickshaw in front of the Jaisalmer Fort in India. Photo: Supplied/Clair Scott

Clair Scott did. Along with her friends, Fi & Ellen she has just completed the Rickshaw Run, which took them some 3000km along India's west coast in what they describe as a "glorified lawnmower with wheels."

Clair Scott and friends on the latest Rickshaw Run along India's west coast.

Clair Scott and friends on the latest Rickshaw Run along India's west coast. Photo: Supplied/Clair Scott