Sascha Grabow

Sascha Grabow - Germany

Starting to travel by himself as a 17-year-old. He visited all the 193/193 independent countries of the UN and all 7 continents, 311/330 countries and territories on the Travelers' Century Club list, 1325/1500 countries and territories on the MTP list, 1237/1301 regions on the NomadMania list, 537/1223 UNESCO World Heritage Site and spent 35 years on the road.

Sascha Grabow, born January 15, 1968, is a German adventurer, globetrotter, author, photographer and occasional tennis coach who, between 1987 and 2016, visited every country in the world, the last being Somalia. In September 2017, at age 49, Grabow became the world's N#1 traveler, amongst a pool of aspirants dominated by folks in their 70s and 80s. Both Nomadmania and TheBestTravelled, the two largest traveler clubs on the net by member base, listed him as the person having experienced more countries, territories and cultures of the world live than anyone living or in the history of man, much less someone age 50 or below. He became also the first person below age 70, 60 or 50 to rank N#1 in another person's club ever since those clubs came into existence back in 2005; while it's kind of pointless to lead your own list, consisting of the territories that you've designed or partitioned according to your own preferences and past travels. 

Right now in six out of the nine better known traveler 'rankings' the 'inventor' sits atop his own list, having published it only after thinking long and hard so as to make sure no one will be able to eclipse them in the first couple of years. 

Grabow was also named one of the top three travelers in the world, and the top traveler in the world below age 50, according to Notable Contemporary Travelers by Jorge Sanchez, which chiefly considers 'years spent on the road', even though he is 30 years younger than the two before him. He was an ATP world-ranked tennis player before starting to travel full-time. Grabow operates a website, greatestglobetrotters.com, which invites people to register their own travel histories. He's a Getty Images Photographer whose work has been used by various UN and other well-known agencies. His books, among them 'Traveling – 30 Years Around The Planet', are available on Amazon.

He almost exclusively hitchhikes, likes to climb a country's high point, tries to spend longer than a month in each country to get a good feel for the local way of life, and is fond of sailing the oceans in private vessels.

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