"The day-to-day enjoyment was way more important and the interactions (with people) too.”
“But after a couple of months of travelling, the world record aspect of it was not the important part because it’d take a long time to complete all countries and a lot of money too. He admitted: “Yes, it’s very self-indulgent, and I’d be very honest and say I thought it’d catch people’s attention by doing something unusual. Jennings, who learned bagpiping during boarding school in UK, told Bhutan Times that setting the world record as being the first person to bagpipe the world was no longer as important anymore. His first destination? Tunisia.Ī post shared by Ross OC Jennings on at 5:04am PDT With only 3,000 British pounds in his pocket, he quit his job in three months and began his kilted adventures. Realising that someone had beat him to it, he said: “So now I have to do the whole world, because no one has done that.” However, after some research, he found a photo from 1921 of a piper standing next to a penguin in Antarctica. He then formulated the idea that he’d be the first person to play bagpipes in Antarctica. “I started thinking that night that if they could do it, why can’t I do something like that”, said Jennings. “They did cool things like skateboarding across Australia or swimming the Mississippi River, and that was literally their job title. At that time, he was working at a tech start-up there after graduating from a bachelor in Chinese and Economics.
Jennings, who also speaks fluent Mandarin after spending eight years in Shanghai, said he was inspired to travel the world when he met a group of adventurers at an annual travel adventure show in London in 2014. Wanted to be first person to bagpipe in Antarctica So he invited us and that’s how we ended up in Bhutan,” explained Jennings, who travels with his two co-founders, Chris Parkes and Travis Bluemling, of Three Wheels Co., a content creation company.
“Karma Dorji of Druk Heritage Tours asked us if we’ve been to Bhutan before and we said no. When asked how did he end up in Bhutan, Jennings said he was approached by Druk Heritage Tours who chanced upon him on Twitter sometime last year.
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"(This is where) a Scottish man does not feel out of place!”, said Jennings, who explained that the Scottish kilt used to look a bit more like the gho in the past but these days, they now wear jackets instead of a full robe.īesides receiving comments on his ‘new gho’, Jennings told us that some Bhutanese have also asked what type of instrument he’s playing, although he also said many people are exposed to bagpipes because of Scottish movies, such as Braveheart. “People here aren’t wondering ‘why are you an ugly woman’, because over here, everyone is thinking whether I’m wearing a different type of gho. Jennings, who has an Instagram following of over 23,500, told Bhutan Times that his experience here has been wonderful simply because “this is the only country in the world where people do not think my kilt is a skirt”. He also visited Tiger’s Nest and Punakha. Jennings ended up performing for them too. The half-Scottish, half-Irish was recently in the Kingdom for eight days, where he managed to pipe at Bayta Primary School in Phobjikha, Wangdue and for HRH Princess Kesang Choden Wangchuk in Thimphu.ĭuring his tour here, he also played at the valley below Cheri Monastery, where he met a local film crew who happened to be shooting a movie. So far, he’s on to country number 82 - Bhutan. The 28-year-old is attempting to play the instrument in every country in the world in his white top, kilt and knee-high socks. One such guy is travel blogger and bagpiper Ross OC Jennings, otherwise known as The First Piper. There are many people who travel the globe attempting world records of various sorts.
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