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...
Interviews
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...
Nabil Kazi: Conquering the World – The Vagabond Tales
Nabil Kazi caught the travel bug early on. Helped by his own background moving to many places as a child and by international work postings, he has conquered quite a lot of the world. The face behind the blog Vagabond Tales with an active Instagram page as...
Bill Adams Adventures: One of the Few to Visit All 193 UN Countries in 2021
Bill Adams is one of only four people that we know of to have completed the 193 UN countries so far in 2021 - down from 41 in 2019! - by reaching Central African Republic in May. The face behind Bill's Excellent Adventures, he has been travelling systematically...
Exploring the World Against All Odds with Tony Giles – An Inspiring Story
Today, we are absolutely humbled at our truly special guest, the man behind the website Tony the Traveller. As you will read below, Tony Giles is so much more than a cheerful, open-minded and inherently inquisitive traveller who also has a taste for adrenaline...