The Solomon Islands aren’t too shabby. I love reading about far-flung places, unknown cultures and countries different to my own. But I...

The last country I visited. Can you guess which one? In my first book, How I Ran Out of Countries, I provided a list where travellers can...

From the least visited country in the world. Which one it is? Find out further down. Photo by Lexie Alford. I have been on the road the...

For the first time, a complete list of annual tourism numbers to every country in the world. Or you can read more about the top 20, i.e....

These gentlemen in Herat will face a lot of bureaucracy in order should they wish to travel extensively. You may or may not be surprised...

All but four of the world’s 50 most dangerous cities are in North and South America, judging by homicides per capita. What does this say...

Dream on. Many countries have more cities with over one million inhabitants than the US of A. The second biggest country of North America...

Have you ever been to a truly poor country? I am not going to try to define what is a “truly” poor one, but there are 26 countries with...

The world’s richest countries are much more geographically spread out than the poorest, yet there are no African or South American...

Yes, that’s it. The world’s least visited country. I once ran around it . I first wrote about the world’s 25 least visited countries in...

While I was at it with border trivia, I started wondering which two countries share the shortest land borders. The 40 island nations of...

38 island nations border zero countries. Canada borders only one while the US borders twice as many. But which country borders the most...

The world’s least visited countries are not necessarily the most difficult to get to. I am using three criteria to determine which...

Where would you not want to go on holiday? To war zones? They actually aren’t too bad. Considering. Less people are killed in armed...