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The world travel map
The world travel map
I’ve decided to include the world travel map, because I thought it would be an attractive and a transparent addition to my travels. Based on the map below, the users of Kompas Travel can have a clearer picture of where I’ve been, and what countries I have explored. However, we should never treat that map as a definitive guide to my travels.
The selected countries are highlighted in full, what doesn’t mean that I’ve been to every corner of each one of them. Some countries I have explored very well, and others not so well. For example Iraq is marked in its entirety, even though I’ve only been to Iraqi Kurdistan. I haven’t been to all the islands in the Philippines either, although travelled through Iran and Saudi Arabia very thoroughly.
In some countries I’ve been only once and I spent there only a week or two, and in the other ones I’ve been a few times and I stayed there several months. That’s why my travel reports are still the best prove of where I’ve been and what I’ve seen.
From the perspective of an adventure traveller, countries are not equal to each other. Let’s say that someone has travelled well through 8 countries and regions of Asia, such as: Kuwait, Bahrain, Brunei, Macao, Hong Kong, Laos, Cambodia and South Korea. However, all of these are either very small countries and regions or they are slightly larger but very well prepared for tourism. I have travelled the entire Indian Subcontinent and I know that the effort, dedication, commitment to travel, resistance to discomfort and also patience with people mean, that you should not consider the countries you have travelled only on the basis of numbers.
Once again I also remind you about the difference between travel and vacation. Someone flew to Bali for 2 weeks to a nice hotel, and someone else went on a 6-month expedition during which he travelled through Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi and several smaller islands. He travelled by local transport, including old buses on potholed roads and boat wrecks that wouldn’t be allowed to operate in Europe. The former had massages, three meals a day and organized trips. The latter explored the jungle, slept in a cave with bats above his head, fought mosquitoes, and had to watch out for wild animals. Superficially, however they were both in Indonesia.
Another type of tourism is travel to unstable, occupied, unpredictable and war-torn regions. In short, I still feel misunderstood but also too tired to explain to pseudo-intellectuals who graduated from higher literacy universities what travel is about.
I wish you great adventures.
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Countries and regions visited by the author of Kompas Travel; based on the above map:
Europe: Poland, Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy, France, Spain, England, Wales, Ireland, Bulgaria, Austria, Serbia, Croatia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Estonia, Greece, Malta.
Asia: Turkey, United Arab Emirates, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, China, Tibet, Hong Kong, Macao, Mongolia, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Georgia, Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Iraq (Kurdistan), Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait.
Africa: Egypt, Tunisia.
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