How is it to travel on a Pakistani passport, to be pulled to the side for a "random check" at almost every airport and why do people have a special soft spot in their heart for foreign travellers? Discover this and so much more in this beautifully written...
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Juan Martinez Camargo: Discover the Power of Storytelling in Travel
Juan Martinez Camargo is a Colombian traveller, photojournalist and blogger. "As a former contributor for Deutsche Welle in Germany and a freelance photojournalist for BBC Travel, I learned that storytelling can make a huge difference in how we all see the...
Radwan Ziadeh Who Visited 130 Countries on a Syrian Passport
Have you ever been pulled to the side at the border for a "random check" and then questioned before you were let into the country? Meet Radwan Ziadeh from Syria who has had this experience no less than 130 times, because this is how many countries he has...
Thomas Demetz, Traveler Balancing Work and Exploration in Panama
Thomas Demetz started with a goal of visiting the whole TCC list until, as he says, he discovered NomadMania. Thomas has left his home in the Dolomites and now resides in Panama, where he finds everything he needs. He doesn't shy away from an adventure while...
Levon Poghosyan Traveller Who Finds Humour in Every Adventure
We are continuing our LPI rubric of interviews. This time we talk to Levon Poghosyan, an Armenian who lives in Germany. He brings us a rarely seen dose of humour which only proves that he is not taking travel all that seriously, but instead he chooses to make...
Mark Vella Gera: A Maltese Explorer’s Quest Beyond the Island Nation
Mark Vella Gera is one of our rare travellers and members from Malta. His love for travel brought him to explore the "Old continent" most of all, but he is curious to see what lies beyond. Travel brings him an escape from, as he says, the sometimes more limited...
Wassim Allache: The Algerian Polyglot and Travel Expert Shares His Adventures
Wassim Allache is one of the biggest travellers we know from Algeria, which is one of the countries in the Low Passport Index ranking - in fact, the listing was Wassim's idea. The owner of Algeria Tours 16, in other words 'your man in Algeria', fluent in a...
Saeed Shahani: An Adventure Through 100 UN Countries
In January, we were pleased to launch our LPI (Low Passport Index) list of travellers and to honour them, we will be presenting a number of travellers from LPI countries in our 'short newsletters' on the 5th of each month . Saeed Shahani from Pakistan has been...
Gianni Vernetti, Found Enlightenment Through Four Decades of Exploration
Gianni Vernetti from Italy has been travelling for more than four decades. From a backpacker to a distinguished columnist and politician, his travel style may have changed somewhat but not his thirst for understanding and exploring the planet. We are extremely...
Pongtharin Tanthasindhu NomadMania’s Biggest Traveller Nominee
Pongtharin Tanthasindhu needs little introduction. One of NomadMania's nominees for Biggest Traveller 2021, he has now visited 176 UN countries, all on an extremely 'challenging' Thai passport. Pong, who is active on Facebook and Instagram, tells us about his...
Behind the Lens: Solo Female Traveler Fran McKenzie
Fran McKenzie is the face behind the travel blog Frans Photos and the Instagram profile of the same name. A solo female traveller who has been to more than 50 countries, she talks to us today about her perspective on travels. Kotor, Montenegro ...
Ben Dowson: From Hitch-Hiker to UN Master
Ben Dowson completed 193 by visiting the Seychelles in 2019. Starting off as a young explorer and hitch-hiker who famously made a headline in the Nebraskan McCook Gazette in 1987, who would have predicted he would end up becoming one of the UN Masters? Ben...