Man who’s traveled to 103 countries reveals the worst place he’s been to
Britt Jones
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There’s something about traveling around the world- it opens your eyes to the good, the bad, and the ugly.
While many countries you’ll visit will be amazing experiences, others might not quite live up to expectations.
For one man, there were some that he just didn’t enjoy, and now he’s revealing all online for others to be warned.
Many people have traveled across the globe and shared their story, but this Redditor has given readers some surprising details about countries we know and love.
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He shared: “I’ve been to 103 countries for work and spend almost the entire year living out of a suitcase. Curious about travel, life abroad, or anything else? AMA.”
AMA, the acronym for Ask Me Anything, was taken very seriously in the comments by people who just wanted to know which countries they should be avoiding, and why.
The man, who simply donned the username ‘Boston_772’, shared that he’s been to ‘103 countries and spend most of the year on the road’, but while ‘Boston is home’, he’s only actually there a few weeks out of the year.
The rest of his time is spent traveling far and wide.
He man that explained that having moved around for years, he has ‘picked up a lot….good spots, weird stories, little tricks that make life easier when you’re never really settled’.
At first, he was asked which is the best place to go to for a ‘casual traveler’, as in, someone that’s mooching around and not hardcore roaming the world.
To this he answered Slovenia as it’s ‘one of the most underrated spots in Europe (IMO)’.
He explained: “t’s super safe, affordable (by European standards lol), and easy to get around. You get a bit of everything. …mountains, lakes, wine country, caves, castles, and a tiny slice of Adriatic coastline. "Ljubljana is clean, walkable, and truly not swarmed with tourists, and Lake Bled looks like something out of a storybook.”
Ireland’s major cities and Aran islands on weekdays were also his picks.
However, for a place he didn’t enjoy, it was ‘probably Somalia’.
When talking about the worst place he’s been to, the man shared: “I went to Mogadishu briefly as part of a work assignment, and don’t get me wrong I’ve been to some real doozies of dangerous places, but this…was the only place where I felt genuinely unsafe from the moment I landed.”
With a heavy military presence that didn’t feel ‘reassuring’, he went on to explain that he was told not to leave the building we were staying at ‘under any circumstances’.
It was also a few places where he ‘truly counted the days’ until he could leave.
With an armed escort following them from the moment they landed, he also said there were ‘no public areas we could walk through safely’.
He shared that ‘heavily armored convoys with armed guards’ escorted him to his hotel compound in Somalia, where you couldn’t go out for a walk or grab a coffee.
Scarily, he claimed he would hear ‘sporadic gunfire in the distance’ which then became background noise during his stay.
All in all, it wasn’t a place he enjoyed traveling to, and the airport was ‘legit the most on edge I’ve ever felt in an airport’.