343 days. 17
countries. 19 planes. 58 buses. 18
boats. 6,237 photographs. In just four
minutes and fifty seconds photographer Kien Lam takes viewers on a trip around
the world. The video from Lam has taken
You Tube by storm.
Lam quit his job as a financial analyst in San
Francisco, packed his camera and took off around the globe. Lam combined 6,237 photographs into the
time-lapse video.
Lam paid for the trip out of his own pocket and
saved money by staying at hostels.
On KienLam.net the photographer writes, “This video
was a collection of scenes from my travels in 2010 and 2011. As much as I wish
I could have traveled to an additional 100 countries, time and budget
constraints meant I had to choose between one country versus another and
believe me when I say that the decision wasn’t always easy.”
“I wish I had the foresight to start doing this with
the very first country I visited. I would have been able to, at the very least,
add Australia, Vietnam, Italy, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany,
Hong Kong, and a couple others to the mix,” Lam writes.
Lam says he didn’t plan the trip or an itinerary.
“I had a direction I wanted to head and a goal of
following the sun to get as many warm days as possible. 2010 was a particularly
cold year in San Francisco and I just wanted to wear shorts and flip-flops as
many days a possible to make up for that.”
“I would usually figure out my next destination when
I was ready to leave my current one. Sometimes it was a particular dish, sight
or story that brought to the next city and sometimes it was the company I kept
and our desire to travel together for just a bit longer.”
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