Think it's possible to visit all 201 countries
and 15 territories while never stepping foot on a plane?
If you answered yes, you win.
British travel blogger and filmmaker, Graham Hughes wrapped up his global odyssey this past
December and recently released a four-minute video of him in each country. It's
kind of like a video on steroids.
In between shooting one-second videos,
Hughes went on some wild adventures. This is how he described them on Facebook:
"I've fed the crocs in Australia, hunted
the dragons of Komodo, befriended the orangutans in Borneo, played with the lemurs
in Madagascar, washed the elephants in India and eaten live octopus in South
Korea."
Hughes made it out alive — and earned some
major street cred along the way. In addition to the Guinness World Records
recognizing him for "Most Countries Visited in One Year by Scheduled
Ground Transport," Hughes spent a week in a Congolese prison, was arrested
sneaking into Russia and joined a Bwiti tribe in Gabon. He even tiptoed into
North Korea, which is not exactly a popular tourist destination.
Also, in case you didn't hear, there's a new
country in the world, South Sudan. And yes, he made it there, too.
It took Hughes 1,426 days to cover 160,000
miles.
As you can imagine, a trip like this could
really leave a guy broke. But he kept his costs under $100 per day, collected
donations on his website and taped segments for National Geographic's Adventure
Channel, "Graham's World." Hughes even raised money for WaterAid, a
charity that brings clean water to some of the most impoverished nations in the
world.
I'm pretty jealous. In fact, I think it's time
to give my notice.