{"id":17698,"date":"2025-04-13T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/17698\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T23:00:11","slug":"ive-been-to-every-country-in-the-world-these-were-the-7-worst-world-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/17698\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been to every country in the world &#8211; these were the 7 worst | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A travel vlogger who has visited all 197 countries in the world shared his seven worst from his adventures. Drew Binsky is known for travelling to extreme destinations, and he shares &#8220;stories about inspiring people, hidden cultures, and wild adventures in faraway places&#8221; on his hugely popular <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/youtube\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a> with 5.28million subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>After visiting every single country, he reflected on his experiences in a 20-second video that whizzed through his least favourites, summarising his experience in a few words. <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"The huge African country that&#039;s massive \u00a3216m road boost\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2022124\/africa-chad-mayo-singako-am-timan-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chad in Africa<\/a> was number one, simply stating he &#8220;nearly died twice,&#8221; and in an orginal post in 2018, the vlogger explained he had some of the &#8220;worst days&#8221; of his life in N&#8217;Djamena, where he had a &#8220;miserable time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: &#8220;Never in my life have I been more scared, threatened, or attacked (both verbally and physically) than in this hot, dusty, beaten-down deserted city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was in a disastrous police chase on a motorbike and I also was attacked by a dozen people for taking 1 photo inside a minibus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He concluded he didn&#8217;t &#8220;hate&#8221; Chad, realising that unlucky situations can make or break an experience in any country.<\/p>\n<p>The next on the list was Nauru, a tiny island in Micronesia, northeast of <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Australia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australia<\/a> and northwest of Tuvalu which he described as &#8220;dark and eerie&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Although his ranking completely contradicts his original post in 2019, when he said it was his &#8220;155th country, and maybe the most interesting one yet&#8221; adding &#8220;NAURU IS AMAZING!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Africa&#039;s pretty country that&#039;s the perfect March holiday with 34C\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/travel\/articles\/2023204\/africa-holiday-march-the-gambia-temperatures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Gambia, Africa,<\/a> came next due to &#8220;verbal harassment&#8221;. In a video from his visit in 2019, he wrote: &#8220;We&#8217;ve spent the past 2.5 days here and it&#8217;s been a very interesting experience to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love the people and the nature &#8212; they are both world class. But something doesn&#8217;t feel right to me about the society&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"The world&#039;s &#039;deadliest lake&#039; that caused 1,700 fatalities in seconds\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2032052\/africa-lake-nyos-tragedy-cameroon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameroon<\/a> made the list because it was &#8220;beyond chaotic&#8221;. He visited Douala in 2018 and said the political situation was &#8220;a lot worse than I imagined&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He was &#8220;not a fan&#8221; of the touristy island of St Vincent either, as he believed it was &#8220;overpriced&#8221;. The <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Cost of living\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/cost-of-living\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cost of living<\/a> is comparable to western Europe, on average four percent lower than in UK, according to figures comparison site Numbeo.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"&#039;I visited an underrated country in Africa - it&#039;s a unique paradise&#039;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/travel\/articles\/2035524\/africa-underrated-country-sierra-leone-tourism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sierra Leone<\/a> rounded off his list, saying he was scammed $300 at the border d for not having a cholera shot. In a separate video, he reported the Sierra Leone Anti-Corruption Commission said they arrested the suspects and offered a refund of the money within 24 hours of the video being uploaded.<\/p>\n<p>Then came Bahrain, which despite being accompanied by a joyful picture, he said was &#8220;extremely boring&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A travel vlogger who has visited all 197 countries in the world shared his seven worst from his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2530,2522,11839,2519,12,2531,183,1014,26,11838],"class_list":{"0":"post-17698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-cameroon","9":"tag-chad","10":"tag-dangerous-countries","11":"tag-drew-binsky","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-st-vincent","14":"tag-travel","15":"tag-travel-advice","16":"tag-world","17":"tag-worst-countries-in-the-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114333143793038099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}