Hitchhiking

Maxime looking out over a palm-filled canyon in Oman.

Inside a decorated truck cab in India, with the driver at the wheel.

A handwritten cardboard hitchhiking sign in Chinese characters, held up by the roadside.

I discovered hitchhiking in April 2025, when I set myself the challenge of travelling from Egypt to Hong Kong by land and sea. I consider it one of the purest ways to travel: it lets you genuinely discover new cultures, off the beaten track.

Since then, I hitchhike whenever I get the chance, and have done so in France, the US, Panama and Costa Rica.

You can find more about my 2025 journey across Asia in the daily vlogs I posted on Instagram.