A man has become the youngest traveller to visit every country. Picture: Thinkstock Source: ThinkStock WHAT begins in Afghanistan and finishes in Zimbabwe?
The adventures of the youngest person to visit every country in the world.
The massive trip took 24-year-old UK traveller James Asquith five years and cost over $200,000.
But he didn't mind, he wasn't in a rush. After taking his first trip as a student in 2008, James gave himself until the age of 25 to complete the feat, the UK's Telegraph reported.
It was when he reached Egypt that he decided he wanted to visitall 196 countries in the world, including unstable nations.
He raised the funds for his trips by taking part-time jobs in bars and hostels along the way.
His timing wasn't always spot-on though.
"I loved the adrenalin that went with it - but I always seemed to pick the worst timing to visit a lot of the countries," James said.
"I went to Libya three weeks after Gaddafi fell, Afghanistan two weeks after the terrorist bombings in Mazar-i-Sharif, but generally I just found a local and tried to get an insight into each country.
"The longest I spent anywhere was six months in Africa. I travelled overland from Senegal to the Congo and then over back up through the east.
"There were lots of small countries and tricky border crossings, [and I was] putting trust in some people that drove me as much as three countries at a time."
And he hasn't finished yet. Next on the list is Tahiti, Easter Island and Antarctica. By the way, they're not technically countries.
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