A Portuguese explorer named Vasco Da Gama was the one who opened this sailing route. A link can be found below.
The same way anybody would travel from India to Britain at that time - they would travel by steamship from India around Africa, then north through the Atlantic to England. Some probably traveled from India across the Pacific, through the Panama Canal and then across the Atlantic to England. Mass air travel across the major oceans did not really begin until after World War 2.
Ibn Battuta was the first person known to have travelled to Spain, Arabia, India, southeast Asia and North Africa
VASCO daGAMA
Vasco da Gama was the first explorer to sail around Africa and across the Indian ocean to India. He was a Portuguese.
Vasco da Gama
You have to cross the Indian ocean to travel from eastern Africa to India, but you can travel on land.
You would have to cross the Indian Ocean if you wanted to travel from east Africa to India. The Indian Ocean is huge and covers around 20 percent of the Earth's surface.
Africa
Sail from Europe, around the south of Africa, and on to India.
Indian ocean
To travel from India to England by ship takes about 22 days if traveling around the continent of Africa. It the Suez Canal is taken, that can take about 10 to 12 days off the trip.
You have to cross the Indian Ocean to travel from eastern Africa to India, but you can travel on land.
Europe, India, and Africa
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean
Tacos
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