Babis Bizas

Babis Bizas - Greece

He visited all the 193 independent countries of the UN and all 7 continents, more than 1 200/1 301 regions on the NomadMania list and spent 40 years on the road.

Babis Bizas (born Charalampos Bizas; 16 September 1954) is a travel writer, explorer and tour operator, and one of the most travelled persons in the world. He was born in Arta, Epirus, Greece. He participated in an expedition to the North Pole in May 1996. Almost 18 years later, in December 2014, he landed in the South Pole, becoming that way probably the only one Greek to have visited both Poles. By 2004 Bizas had visited all 194 sovereign countries  of the world at that time. He is currently a member of the RGO (Russian Geographical Society) Русское географическое общество.