Elvis was voted the most popular travel companion in a poll of 1,200 gap year students.
The survey, carried out by gap year website, www.travellersconnected.com, gave participants free reign to choose whoever they liked, dead, or alive. They were not given a shortlist.
Elvis topped the poll with 6% of the vote, followed by Ghandi who received 4.3% the vote.
John Lennon, Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, The Dalai Lama, Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela all appeared in the Top 10, but Michael Palin, David Attenborough and Bruce Parry didn’t.
“Elvis being the number one choice was totally unexpected but then at least you’d never be short of a few tunes by the campfire!” said Alastair Banks, one of the website’s seven founders.
