This 77-Year-Old Man Has A Heartwarming & Noble Cause To Travel To 75 Countries

A lot of us believe that travelling is one of the most fulfilling and soul-satisfying ways of living life. It rejuvenates your mind when you come face to face with a world of different experiences. And while travelling remains the first love of many people, not everyone can afford to pack their bags and leave for an unknown destination anytime they want.

The situation was similar for Arun Sabnis's father, whose deep desires to explore foreign lands never came true because he was only a middle-class man bound by duty to earn a living for his family. But his son, Arun Sabnis, took it upon himself to fulfill his father's wish.   

77-year-old Arun Narayan Sabnis has been travelling the world for more than four decades, to fulfill his late father's dream. 

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Arun Narayan Sabnis was a young man of 24 when once, while shuffling through his father's album, he came across the black and white photographs of Pompeii, an Italian city buried under a volcanic eruption. That day, his otherwise stoic father told him about his unfulfilled desire to travel the world. Sabnis was moved when his father told him that he's unable to fulfill his dream as he was supporting a family of five children. Later, after the sudden demise of his father, Sabnis moved to Mumbai. It was at this time that he decided to travel the world as a tribute to his father. In an interview with the Huffington Post he said:

Let him see the world through my eyes if he could not when he was alive.

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But it wasn't an easy task. After two failed attempts to go abroad for further studies, Sabnis got lucky the third time. Ten years after he had promised to travel the world, he received the Ford Foundation scholarship and went to England for studies. He was the first one in the family to go abroad. He then travelled across Europe, Australia, USA, Canada, Greenland, and Africa. But his trip to Antarctica, on a cruise, was one of the most exciting one of them all. On their way back home, the wind blew at a speed of 100 km per hour and their cruise huge sea-waves tossed their cruise up in the air.

"The eerie feeling that you are visiting a part of the world, which is very much as it was millions of years ago and which only very few Indians have set foot on so far", he said.

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For 75th country on his itinerary, he chose Iceland. Although, most of the time he explored these new places alone as his wife is not too fond of travelling. This time he was accompanied by his granddaughter. About his tour to Iceland he said:

"I wanted to go there because I wanted to see a country that was still largely in a pre-industrialisation stage, where the nature and it's presence is so awesome, and because of this unpredictable nature, people revere it, and adjust according to the circumstances without harming nature."

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Sabnis is quite a globetrotter and likes to plan his holidays months in advance. He has travelled across most the world and still wants to see more. Sabnis' love for travel is such that even after the doctors have advised him to rest, he already has holidays for Siberia and Mongolia lined up. And just like a true travel enthusiast who's always willing to leave their comfort zone behind and explore, Sabnis has no qualms about surviving only on bread and butter, due to the lack of vegetarian food during his international trips. In his words:

If you complain, you will not be able to soak in the experiences.  

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