Dry Data

Here’s a list with dry data – cool facts, or a little statistics of our traveling – I am writing our traveling because I did the most of my traveling with my husband.

I should mention that we travel slow. We like to feel the atmosphere and sense the places we’re traveling to.
For us it’s not a race around the world or about counting countries.
We travel because it’s in our veins to travel and to get to know other cultures and history.

My first country: Germany in 1970, (less than a year old)

My latest (not visited before) country: Chile in 2014

Number of countries and territories I visited: 78

Dry Data - © curiousKester.com | Kirsten K. Kester

1970 at border to Eastern Germany

(bold words, indicates I’ve been there but a post is yet to come – bold and linked words, indicates I’ve been there and a post is available)

Africa:
Botswana, Ceuta (Sp), EgyptLesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, NamibiaSouth Africa,  SwazilandTunisiaZambiaZimbabwe

America:
North AmericaCanadaMexicoUnited States of America
North America The Caribbean — Cuba 
North America   Central AmericaBelize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
South AmericaArgentina, Bolivia, Brazil, ChileParaguayUruguay, Venezuela

Asia:
Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, ChinaHong Kong (before it bacame Chinese in 1997), India, IndonesiaIsraelKazakhstanKyrgyzstan, LaosMalaysiaNepalRussia (including the Europe part), SingaporeThailand, Turkey (small part in Europe), Vietnam

Australia & Oceania:
AustralasiaAustraliaNew Zealand 
Melanesia
Micronesia
Polynesia — Easter Island (Chile),

Europe:
Andorra, AustriaBelarus, BelgiumCroatiaCzech Republic, Denmark, Faroe Islands (Den), FranceGermany, Gibraltar (UK), GreeceHungary, IcelandItalyLuxembourgMaltaNetherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, SwitzerlandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Vatican City
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At the map below you can get a quick view where I have been



 

The northern most place: 70°N
Troms, Norway

The southern most place: 54°52′S
South of Ushuaia, Argentina – National Park Tierra del Fuego

The highest place: 4863 m
near Licancabur volcano, Andes mountains, Chile

Number of countries we’ve spend less then 24 hours in: 5
Belarus, BurmaMozambique, Ukraine, Vatican City State

Number of countries I visited two times: 7
Argentina, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Zimbabwe

Number of countries we visited more than three times: 18
Australia, Belgium, Botswana, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Namibia, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, USA

Number of cars we bought: 3

Number of kilometers we drove in own car: about 180.000 km.

Number of times we ran out of gas: 2

Number of accidents: 4

Number of times we got robbed: 2

Number of cameras we lost, (either stolen or forgotten): 4

Number of times we had to bribe the police: 0

Number of times we cleared out a bank for money: 1

Number of times with malaria: 1 each

Number of times with dengue fever: 1

Number of times with salmonellae: 1 each

Number of times I went to the hospital: 6
AustraliaMalaysiaNew Zealand, Thailand, USAVenezuela

Number of times I went to see a doctor: 13
Australia x 4, Chile, Iceland, India, Germany, Honduras, Mexico, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Thailand

Number of flights, (long-distance flights back and forth are counted as one): 99

Number of flights on private plane, helicopter, micro light: 8
Australia, Brazil, El Salvador, Kazakhstan, Mexico, South Africa, USA

Number of train trips, (we are not talking subways ;): 50

Number of boat trips: still counting ..

Number of chickens we must have eaten: 10,000,000,000 each

I have been a member of Travellers Club of Denmark since 2008

In 2009 I received Egholm Award from Travellers Club of Denmark.
Egholm Prize is awarded to spread the desire to travel and spread information about travel, foreign countries and cultures.

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