Helen Keller(1880-1968) once wrote: “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing”.
I could have stayed at home, gone to the library, watched documentaries, spoken to people and explored the World from the comfort of a chair in familiar surroundings. However loosely translated from the Danish scientist, Piet Hein, I have read: “one must travel in order to understand that the World is round”.
With a background in logistics I have spent many hours planning the most optimal route in order to visit every country in the World. Well; here is the master plan by sequence and while it might not be pure genius it is the basics of what I am basing my travel plans on. Sure I might deviate from it a few times – but this is more or less how I have imagined to work my way through 203 countries:
(The dates below reflect the date at which I have spent 24 hours in the country. Not always the date I leave).
|
sequence number |
Country |
|
1 |
Denmark - done 10/10 2013 |
|
2 |
Germany - done 11/10 2013 |
|
3 |
Netherland - done 12/10 2013 |
|
4 |
Belgium - done 13/10 2013 |
|
5 |
Luxembourg - done 14-15/10 2013 |
|
6 |
France - done 16/10 2013 |
|
7 |
England - done 17/10 2013 |
|
8 |
Wales - done 18/10 2013 |
|
9 |
Ireland - done 20/10 2013 |
|
10 |
Northern Ireland - done 21/10 2013 |
|
11 |
Scotland - done 22-24/10 2013 |
|
12 |
Spain - done 27/10 2013 |
|
13 |
Portugal - done 28/10 2013 |
|
14 |
Andorra - done 03/11 2013 |
|
15 |
Monaco - done 05/11 2013 |
|
16 |
Italy - done 06/11 2013 |
|
17 |
Vatican City - done 19/08 2017 |
|
18 |
San Marino - done 08/11 2013 |
|
19 |
Liechtenstein - done 10/11 2013 |
|
20 |
Austria - done 11/11 2013 |
|
21 |
Switzerland - done 13/11 2013 |
|
22 |
Slovenia - done 16/11 2013 |
|
23 |
Croatia - done 17/11 2013 |
|
24 |
Bosnia & Herzegovina - done 19/11 2013 |
|
25 |
Serbia - done 20/11 2013 |
|
26 |
Hungary - done 22/11 2013 |
|
27 |
Slovakia - done 23/11 2013 |
|
28 |
Czech Republic - done 24/11 2013 |
|
29 |
Poland - done 25/11 2013 |
|
30 |
Lithuania - done 07/12 2013 |
|
31 |
Belarus - done 08/12 2013 |
|
32 |
Russia - done 09/12 2013 |
|
33 |
Latvia - done 12/12 2013 |
|
34 |
Estonia - done 13/12 2013 |
|
35 |
Finland - done 14/12 2013 |
|
36 |
Sweden - done 16/12 2013 |
|
37 |
Norway - done 17/12 2013 |
|
38 |
Faroe Islands - done 06/01 2014 |
|
39 |
Iceland - done 08/01 2014 |
|
40 |
Greenland - done 19/02 2014 |
|
41 |
Canada - done 19/05 2014 |
|
42 |
United States of America - done 23/05 2014 |
|
43 |
Mexico - done 06/06 2014 |
|
44 |
Belize - done 12/06 2014 |
|
45 |
Guatemala - done 16/06 2014 |
|
46 |
El Salvador - done 18/06 2014 |
|
47 |
Honduras - done 20/06 2014 |
|
48 |
Nicaragua - done 25/06 2014 |
|
49 |
Costa Rica - done 02/07 2014 |
|
50 |
Panama - done 05/07 2014 |
|
51 |
Colombia - done 19/07 2014 |
|
52 |
Ecuador - done 27/07 2014 |
|
53 |
Peru - done 31/7 2014 |
|
54 |
Bolivia - done 16/8 2014 |
|
55 |
Paraguay - done 19/8 2014 |
|
56 |
Chile - done 13/9 2014 |
|
57 |
Argentina - done 19/9 2014 |
|
58 |
Uruguay - done 24/9 2014 |
|
59 |
Brazil - done 28/9 2014 |
|
60 |
Guyana - done 16/10 2014 |
|
61 |
Suriname - done 22/10 2014 |
|
62 |
Venezuela - done 27/10 2014 |
|
63 |
Trinidad & Tobago - done 01/11 2014 |
|
64 |
Grenada - done 12/11 2014 |
|
65 |
St. Vincent and the Grenadines - done 15/11 2014 |
|
66 |
Barbados - done 26/11 2014 |
|
67 |
St. Lucia - done 10/12 2014 |
|
68 |
Dominica - done 14/12 2014 |
|
69 |
Antigua - done 19/12 2014 |
|
70 |
St. Kitts & Nevis - done 23/12 2014 |
|
71 |
Dominican Republic - done 11/01 2015 |
|
72 |
Haiti - done 14/01 2015 |
|
73 |
Jamaica - done 19/01 2015 |
|
74 |
Cuba - done 08/02 2015 |
|
75 |
Bahamas - done 24/02 2015 |
|
76 |
Morocco - done 07/04 2015 |
|
77 |
Western Sahara - done 14/04 2015 |
|
78 |
Mauritania - done 16/04 2015 |
|
79 |
Senegal - done 18/04 2015 |
|
80 |
Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) - done 30/04 2015 |
|
81 |
Guinea-Bissau - done 22/05 2015 |
|
82 |
The Gambia - done 25/05 2015 |
|
83 |
Mali - done 04/06 2015 |
|
84 |
Guinea - done 11/06 2015 |
|
85 |
Sierra Leone - done 15/06 2015 |
|
86 |
Liberia - done 18/06 2015 |
|
87 |
Côte D'Ivoire - done 27/06 2015 |
|
88 |
Ghana - done 29/06 2015 |
|
89 |
Togo - done 18/07 2015 |
|
90 |
Burkina Faso - done 21/07 2015 |
|
91 |
Niger - done 26/07 2015 |
|
92 |
Benin Republic - done 29/07 2015 |
|
93 |
Nigeria - done 10/08 2015 |
|
94 |
Cameroon - done 26/08 2015 |
|
95 |
Chad - done 31/08 2015 |
|
96 |
Central African Republic - done 09/09 2015 |
|
97 |
Gabon - done 28/09 2015 |
|
98 |
Congo Republic - done 08/10 2015 |
|
99 |
São Tomé & Príncipe - done 21/11 2015 |
|
100 |
Equatorial Guinea - done 23/01 2016 |
|
101 |
Democratic Republic of Congo done 15/03 2016 |
|
102 |
Angola - done 22/03 2016 |
|
103 |
Namibia - done 27/03 2016 |
|
104 |
Botswana - done 02/04 2016 |
|
105 |
South Africa - done 06/04 2016 |
|
106 |
Lesotho - done 11/04 2016 |
|
107 |
eSwatini (Swaziland) - done 17/04 2016 |
|
108 |
Mozambique - 23/04 2016 |
|
109 |
Zimbabwe - done 29/04 2016 |
|
110 |
Zambia - done 12/05 2016 |
|
111 |
Malawi - done 23/05 2016 |
|
112 |
Tanzania - done 30/05 2016 |
|
113 |
Comoros - done 21/06 2016 |
|
114 |
Madagascar - done 02/07 2016 |
|
115 |
Seychelles - done 23/07 2016 |
|
116 |
Mauritius - done 12/08 2016 |
|
117 |
Burundi - done 17/10 2016 |
|
118 |
Rwanda - done 20/10 2016 |
|
119 |
Uganda - done 25/10 2016 |
|
120 |
South Sudan - done 04/11 2016 |
|
121 |
Kenya - done 08/11 2016 |
|
122 |
Ethiopia - done 20/12 2016 |
|
123 |
Somalia - done 30/12 2016 |
|
124 |
Djibouti - done 09/01 2017 |
|
125 |
Sudan - done 07/02 2017 |
|
126 |
Eritrea - done 31/03 2017 |
|
127 |
Egypt - done 19/04 2017 |
|
128 |
Malta - done 07/05 2017 |
|
129 |
Tunisia - done 04/06 2017 |
|
130 |
Libya - done 25/06 2017 |
|
131 |
Algeria - done 03/07 2017 |
|
132 |
Albania - done 22/08 2017 |
|
133 |
Greece - done 26/08 2017 |
|
134 |
North Macedonia (Macedonia) - done 30/08 2017 |
|
135 |
Kosovo - done 04/09 2017 |
|
136 |
Montenegro - done 08/09 2017 |
|
137 |
Romania - done 11/09 2017 |
|
138 |
Moldova - done 16/09 2017 |
|
139 |
Ukraine - done 20/09 2017 |
|
140 |
Bulgaria - done 25/09 2017 |
|
141 |
Turkiye - done 29/09 2017 |
|
142 |
Cyprus - done 12/10 2017 |
|
143 |
Lebanon - done 14/12 2017 |
|
144 |
Syria - done 04/03 2018 |
|
145 |
Jordan - done 03/04 2018 |
|
146 |
Iraq - done 19/05 2018 |
|
147 |
Kuwait - done 24/05 2018 |
|
148 |
Iran - done 29/06 2018 |
|
149 |
United Arab Emirates - done 09/07 2018 |
|
150 |
Oman - done 16/07 2018 |
|
151 |
Yemen - done 19/07 2018 |
|
152 |
Qatar - done 25/07 2018 |
|
153 |
Saudi Arabia - done 07/08 2018 |
|
154 |
Bahrain - done 08/08 2018 |
|
155 |
Israel - done 09/09 2018 |
|
156 |
Palestine - done 16/09 2018 |
|
157 |
Georgia - done 02/10 2018 |
|
158 |
Azerbaijan - done 06/10 2018 |
|
159 |
Armenia - done 11/10 2018 |
|
160 |
Afghanistan - done 26/10 2018 |
|
161 |
Turkmenistan - done 28/10 2018 |
|
162 |
Uzbekistan - done 04/11 2018 |
|
163 |
Tajikistan - done 08/11 2018 |
|
164 |
Kyrgyztan - done 11/11 2018 |
|
165 |
Kazakhstan - done 16/11 2018 |
|
166 |
Mongolia - done 27/11 2018 |
|
167 |
Pakistan - done 15/12 2018 |
|
168 |
India - done 30/12 2018 |
|
169 |
Nepal - done 26/01 2019 |
|
170 |
Bhutan - done 02/02 2019 |
|
171 |
Bangladesh - done 05/02 2019 |
|
172 |
Myanmar - done 15/02 2019 |
|
173 |
Thailand - done 22/02 2019 |
|
174 |
Laos - done 02/03 2019 |
|
175 |
China - done 06/03 2019 |
|
176 |
North Korea - done 13/03 2019 |
|
177 |
South Korea - done 29/03 2019 |
|
178 |
Japan - done 10/04 2019 |
|
179 |
Taiwan - done 27/04 2019 |
|
180 |
Vietnam - done 10/05 2019 |
|
181 |
Cambodia - done 15/05 2019 |
|
182 |
Malaysia - done 30/05 2019 |
|
183 |
Singapore - done 08/06 2019 |
|
184 |
Indonesia - done 29/06 2019 |
|
185 |
Brunei - done 10/07 2019 |
|
186 |
Philippines - done 25/07 2019 |
|
187 |
East Timor (Timor-Leste) - done 02/09 2019 |
|
188 |
Papua New Guinea - done 05/10 2019 |
|
189 |
Solomon Islands - done 24/10 2019 |
|
190 |
Kiribati - done 26/11 2019 |
|
191 |
Nauru - done 01/12 2019 |
|
192 |
Fiji - done 16/12 2019 |
|
193 |
Marshall Islands - done 30/12 2019 |
|
194 |
Micronesia - done 15/01 2020 |
|
195 |
Palau - done 20/01 2022 |
|
196 |
Australia - done 02/04 2022 |
|
197 |
New Zealand - done 21/06 2022 |
|
198 |
Samoa - done 22/08 2022 |
|
199 |
Tonga - done 13/09 2022 |
|
200 |
Vanuatu - done 18/10 2022 |
|
201 |
Tuvalu - done 10/01 2023 |
|
202 |
Sri Lanka - done 11/05 2023 |
|
203 |
The Maldives - done 24/05 2023. SUCCESS!!! |
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