How many places have you visited?

How many places have you visited?

Benedict Allen (Explorer) gives expert video advice on: Do you get nervous before an expedition?; How long does an expedition last?; How do you decide what expedition to do next? and more...

I don't really count most of my travels as explorations, to be absolutely honest. I've done a lot of programs for the telly, which I still think of as not exploration. People wonder why I'm called the explorer, sometimes, because they forget that I've written five or six books about early expeditions when I was utterly remote. But I suppose -- gee, I've popped all over the place, everywhere from Haiti to Mongolia, and I don't know -- I suppose I've done ten major expeditions, and about five minor ones. And they've generally been to the jungles around the world and the deserty places, and I've rattled through the South American countries, if you like, but it's not very exciting. Everyone's been to Peru, nowadays. Well, I suppose there've been ten countries in South America and so on that I've been to.