Melbourne:
Unlike many of his counterparts who now fear to walk alone Down Under, a young Indian student has no second thoughts to spend weeks on lonely roads of Australia riding on his unicycle to raise funds for charity.
Sid Rajan, the 25-year old unicyclist, will travel from Adelaide to Sydney via Melbourne and Canberra covering a distance of 2049 km from November to December on his unicycle, sending across the message of "Australia a safe place".
His adventure unicycling called as "3 Oceans Unicycle Tour" is a part of his honours thesis for which he collects data.
Rajan has already completed the first leg of his tour in which he covered a distance of 3,700 km from Perth to Adelaide along the southern coast in two months time in June.
He will be setting out on his second tour to complete his research project that entails to find a deeper understanding of embodied experience of long distance cycle touring in relation to the space-time dimension of the experience.
"The research methodology will be auto-ethnographic and I will be using my personal experiences as a platform to develop themes about the experience, as they may be informed or developed by various theories of experience," Rajan said, who hails from Hyderabad.
Rajan feels his journey will send a strong message to Indian students residing here, who have bore the brunt of the recent racial attacks, to feel safe.
Sid Rajan, the 25-year old unicyclist, will travel from Adelaide to Sydney via Melbourne and Canberra covering a distance of 2049 km from November to December on his unicycle, sending across the message of "Australia a safe place".
His adventure unicycling called as "3 Oceans Unicycle Tour" is a part of his honours thesis for which he collects data.
Rajan has already completed the first leg of his tour in which he covered a distance of 3,700 km from Perth to Adelaide along the southern coast in two months time in June.
He will be setting out on his second tour to complete his research project that entails to find a deeper understanding of embodied experience of long distance cycle touring in relation to the space-time dimension of the experience.
"The research methodology will be auto-ethnographic and I will be using my personal experiences as a platform to develop themes about the experience, as they may be informed or developed by various theories of experience," Rajan said, who hails from Hyderabad.
Rajan feels his journey will send a strong message to Indian students residing here, who have bore the brunt of the recent racial attacks, to feel safe.
