SINGAPORE — A 27-year-old Singaporean man has gone viral with his social media account of a bicycle journey stretching about 4,800km from his home in Tampines to southern China.

Videos on his Instagram profile “dhnrjb” showed that Friday (June 28) marked the 114th day of Mr Ramadhan Rajab’s solo adventure.

He had spent the past three months travelling across Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and China on two wheels.

Mr Ramadhan first posted an Instagram video on April 14 documenting “Day 1” of his journey, writing in the post that he had been “wanting to share this once-in-a-blue-moon ambitious journey” with his followers.

In the video, he said that he had already gotten lost “multiple times” when he first entered Malaysia that day, even with the help of Google Maps, and had to cross a small “river” to get back on track.

Since then, he had posted about 40 more videos about his biking voyage, with most of them amassing more than 100,000 views.

In the comment sections of these videos, followers praised his courage and many expressed their desire to embark on a similar adventure themselves. 

One wrote: “Mad respect and absolutely inspired by your sharing!” 

Another said: “You are my inspiration! I’m a cyclist myself but not that adventurous… so I’m living vicariously through you.”

Curious about his escapade, many also asked Mr Ramadhan questions on the finer details of his trip — such as how he planned where to stay and how he was able to answer nature’s calls.

Speaking to Malay news outfit Berita Mediacorp on Thursday, Mr Ramadhan said that he has completed most of his trip by doing things spontaneously, and finds the cheapest accommodation using Google.

He also occasionally goes directly to an accommodation to ask for a place to stay for the night.

He told an Instagram user that he would relieve himself anywhere that is “isolated”. For bigger business, though, “that’s still a problem (until) now in rural areas”, he wrote in his comment. 

“Many times I’ll just tahan (endure).”

Mr Ramadhan also encountered more than his fair share of mechanical faults with his bicycle that included punctured tyres and malfunctioning gears. 

To fix these problems, he relied on a mix of his own knowledge, YouTube videos, Google, and the generosity and expertise of many bike shops along his path.

Though his adventure had come with many unexpected challenges along the way, Mr Ramadhan often shared with his followers the nuggets of the wisdom and serendipity that he had gleaned.

In a video taken around the 60th day of his trip, he said that he had experienced a bout of food poisoning after gulping down a sugar cane drink in Cambodia, which led him to rest at what appeared to be a wooden hut by the side of the road. 

There, he met a South African woman who had been cycling in the opposite direction who also stopped to rest — and they struck up a heartfelt conversation.

On the encounter, Mr Ramadhan said: “Bumping into a fellow cyclist is like meeting a long-lost family member. In that short moment, we exchanged a bit of our lives, our cycling experiences, the good and the bad.

“And it’s through the shared passion of adventure that we have that makes the conversations so fun and memorable.” 

Mr Ramadhan is now on the final stretch of his journey, and no, he would not be cycling back to Singapore.

He told Berita Mediacorp that he will return to Singapore from Kunming in southern China by plane on July 4. 

TODAY has reached out to Mr Ramadhan for comment.