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Who hasn't dreamed of going off grid, of packing everything in and travelling the world?

For the explorers, adventurers and nomads among us, the lure of the road, away from the daily grind, grows too strong and travel becomes a calling. But imagine if your dream were to travel the whole world on foot, taking you 75,500km (46, 900 miles) away from home, from your wife, your children and even your grandchildren.

For one man, these pangs of wanderlust sent him on an 11 year odyssey where he slept in jail cells in South Africa, found friendship with gang members in Guatemala and suffered the intense loneliness and stifling heat of the Australian outback.

MailOnline Travel spoke to Jean Bliveau, the man who walked around the world.

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'I had midlife crisis and had to leave my past life and find something different.

'I'd rather be eaten by lion than be eaten by society,' Jean Beliveau tells MailOnline Travel over a crackly phone line, from the house he's currently building, in a Canadian forest.

At aged 45, Beliveau who owned a neon sign factory in Montreal, was at a crossroad in his life.

While walking across Jacques Cartier Bridge one day he started to wonder how long it might take him to keep walking to New York.

Then he expanded his dream further until he had a plan to travel six continents on foot.

The Canadian's resulting journey is believed to be the world's longest uninterrupted circumnavigation on foot.

He travelled from Montreal to Brazil to South Africa to Egypt to Morocco to Europe(Portugal. Spain, France, Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany) to Turkey then Iran, India, China, Japan, Taiwan, Borneo, Indonesia, Australia (North to South) and crossed six deserts in the cartier bracelet love replica process.

After nine months of preparation, with just a trolley of camping essentials and $4000 Canadian dollars raised by his supportive wife Luce, Beliveau set off on his adventure.

He said the walk was to 'promote peace and non violence for fake cartier love bracelet sale the children of the world' and ran awebsitehighlighting different local causes that tied in with his theme along the way.

Wonders imitation love bracelets cartier of the world: In March 2005, Jean was mesmerised by the Great Sphinx and the Pyramids in Egypt

'The north end of Australia was a big challenge with the 45 degree heat in October, November and December. It was really warm and lonely on the road.

'But it was a beautiful experience, people gave me water.'

Beliveau relied on the kindness of strangers to keep his trip going. He stayed with 1600 families and slept in churches, temples, schools, parks, forests and even bedded down for the night in jail.

Remarkable encounters: Jean met four Nobel Prize winners during his journey including Nelson Mandela in Durban, South Africa, in 2003 (pictured)

'In America I stayed in jail and would sleep in the same cell as a prisoner. In a South African jail once they forgot me. They changed shifts and came over and I said 'I'm just a guest here' but they couldn't find anything on file.'

He freely admits his trip was blighted by a prolonged culture shock, especially fake white gold cartier bracelet witnessing the poverty of India and Africa where it would be a 'blessing to have a roof'.

He was heckled by children in Ethiopia which he said 'nearly broke him'.

Jean covered approximately 20 miles a day and crossed six deserts over the years. He is pictured in Shiraz, Iran in 2007

He said: 'In Ethiopia there was a culmination of nature and culture shock. It's a special place, children were walking around me and dancing and tried to talk with me. They didn't speak English and would follow me and repeat everything.

'After a couple of days of this I was so tired and couldn't have any more contact.'

He also learned the hard way not to wink at people as it was considered a sexual invitation.

Mixing with gangs in Ecuador and South Africa, he said once they realised he was walking for a good cause this protected him and earned him support from some of the world's most notorious criminals.

Jean's wife Luce, family and a few friends gathered to witness his first departing steps (right)At the US Mexico border in 2001 (left) during the early days of his adventure

He said: 'A gang member in in Guatemala gave me money as he had been a child soldier and said he'd had a bad childhood.'
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