He began his epic journey to 194 countries with a visit to Holland in July 2002 and finished his mission in Kosovo in May of this year – six years, ten months and seven days later – with plenty of drama along the way.
Mr Samaddar, an Indian national who now lives in Dubai, said of his trip to Afghanistan: ‘The hotel where I stayed in Kabul was blown apart an hour after I left my room.
‘I have travelled through regions with bullets flying thick and fast all around. It’s a miracle I didn’t get killed.
‘In East Timor, I stayed without food for three days and had to pay a local lad a few hundred dollars for some bananas.’In Nauru, my flight was cancelled eight times and I had to overstay for one-and-a-half months.’
For his next trick, he’ll change his name to Wowbagger, and pay a visit to absolutely everyone, everywhere, to insult them.
Should have done it dancing, he’d have been able to make a youtube video and be famous…
@ Rustamm:
hahaha.
Damn… I was thinking that exact same thing when I was looking at the pic.
Pax, amor et concordia.
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Vince, for that he’d need to become immortal first.
I bet there are not a lot of people that can claim to have visited every single counrty in the world, that is some feat and I bet cost a bob or two!
As much as this is a remarkable achievement, I can’t help but find myself thinking…why? Ok, it is impressive to have visited every country in the world but it would make you a nightmare at dinner parties with endless exclamations of: “I’ve been there!”
Why start with Holland in the first place? Presumably to get the drug taking and pornography bit out the way? What does he do now? Will he be employed by tourism agencies or will he go back to doing what he did before which seems to be nothing as he had ample time to explore the globe,
Fair play to him and the jealous part of me will subside…in time.
This used to be my lifes ambition, but have had to resign myself to the fact I’m unlikely to have the money to do it!
Good for him – I hope he does tell lots of stories and shares his experiences.
I’m inclined to agree with John on this:
“I can’t help but find myself thinking…why? Ok, it is impressive to have visited every country in the world but it would make you a nightmare at dinner parties with endless exclamations of: “I’ve been there!”
Impressive and fun it might have been, but he does sound as if he is going to be the very worst kind of “travel bore”.
You know the type, they don’t go on “holiday”, they “travel”, and boast about their experiences roughing it with the “colourful locals” with only a few hundred pounds in their pocket and annoy everyone in Indian restaurants back home by loudly exclaiming in a posh voice, “Of course, you know they don’t really eat food like this in India?”
I hate rich-but-roughing-it travel bores at the best of times, but he must be a nightmare!
@ Siohan M. They really don’t eat that food in India… And I guess he would know… He is Indian.