Exclusive: French traveller Paul Tingaud has a lofty plan: to see the world without taking a single plane trip.

The 24-year-old has been successful in his solo mission so far, making it from his hometown of Paris to Kuala Lumpur in just over nine months.

After leaving in February this year, Tingaud has hitch-hiked, cycled, taken the bus, slept on trains and boarded just one boat to get from France to Malaysia without needing to hop on a flight.

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