List of countries Michael Palin has traveled to
Listed are all the nations and territories that Michael Palin has traveled to in his journeys As of 2007: Around the World in 80 Days, Pole to Pole, Full Circle, Hemingway Adventure, Sahara, Himalaya, and New Europe. The names of the nations listed are what they were known by at the time Palin visited them, as well as the flags shown.
Place |
Journey(s) |
Highlight(s) |
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New Europe |
Visited with Edi Rama, the 2004 World Mayor of the Year, in Tirana |
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Sahara |
Ventured into the country three times during the journey; one of only three countries (USA and India are the others) that Palin traveled into three times in the same journey |
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Pole to Pole |
End of the journey |
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Full Circle |
Appeared in a cameo role in the popular soap Home and Away; finished second in a cow race; held a baby crocodile in his hands |
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Around the World in 80 Days |
Forced to go by coach in Innsbruck to Venice after railway strike |
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Himalaya |
End of the journey; discussed Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize |
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Himalaya |
Last view of the high Himalayan peaks |
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Full Circle |
Freak train derailment upon entry into La Paz |
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New Europe |
Chatted with one of the youths that had a vision of the Virgin Mary at Međugorje |
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New Europe |
Visited with Gypsies in the city of Plovdiv |
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Full Circle |
Flagged down a train near Vancouver, British Columbia; participated in an outdoorsman festival |
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Pole to Pole, Full Circle |
Kissed the toe of an Indian on a statue of Ferdinand Magellan in each of his trips to Punta Arenas |
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Around the World in 80 Days, Full Circle, Himalaya |
One of only two countries (USA is the other) that Palin visited in three journeys |
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Full Circle |
Toured an emerald mine |
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New Europe |
Reunited with the captain of a ship he took from Madras to Singapore in 80 Days |
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Hemingway Adventure |
Chatted with an old friend of Hemingway's, aged 101 |
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Pole to Pole |
Attended a wedding; chatted with British military at the base at Akrotiri |
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New Europe |
Attended a social gathering with Taťána Kuchařová, Miss World 2006 |
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(North Korea) |
Full Circle |
Crossed the border in a building in the DMZ |
Around the World in 80 Days, Pole to Pole |
Cairo: first city Palin visited twice on his journeys |
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New Europe |
Receives hirudotherapy treatment in Tallinn |
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Pole to Pole |
Palin arrived right after the overthrowing of Mengistu |
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Pole to Pole |
Relaxed in a sauna outside of Helsinki and sat on Santa Claus' lap on the Arctic Circle |
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Around the World in 80 Days, Hemingway Adventure |
Where Palin first traveled outside of the UK in 80 Days (Orient Express transfer across the English Channel; discovered the apartment Hemingway lived at in Paris is occupied by another American |
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New Europe |
End of the journey Visited many cities in the former |
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Sahara |
Start/end of the journey |
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Around the World in 80 Days, Pole to Pole |
First country Palin visited in two journeys |
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Pole to Pole |
Brief stopover at Nord Base after setting foot on North Pole |
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Around the World in 80 Days |
Palin visited nine years before the transfer of Hong Kong from the UK to China |
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New Europe |
Participated in a fashion show in Budapest |
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Around the World in 80 Days, Himalaya |
One of three countries (Algeria and USA are the others) Palin ventured into three times in one journey (Himalaya) Chatted with an astrologer in Bombay Was a special guest at a play in a Shimla theater Interviewed the Dalai Lama |
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Full Circle |
Picked tea leaves at a tea plantation |
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Around the World in 80 Days, Hemingway Adventure |
Served as a spazzino, a temporary helper with the Venetian sanitation department; visited a World War I memorial |
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Around the World in 80 Days, Full Circle |
sang in a karaoke bar; visited with Japan's first loyal Monty Python fan and set a personal record for money won in a horse race |
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Pole to Pole, Hemingway Adventure |
gave his inflatable globe from 80 Days to schoolchildren in the village where he filmed The Missionary and went up in a hot-air balloon while on safari; witnessed a circumcision ceremony of the Maasai tribe |
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New Europe |
Saw the Ventspils telescope in Riga |
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Sahara |
visited with World War II veterans at a key battle victory at Tobruk |
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Around the World in 80 Days |
passed through on the Orient Express |
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New Europe |
Stayed in the same villa Leonid Brezhnev did at Palanga |
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Full Circle |
Visited an orangutan reserve |
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Sahara |
Visited Toumani Diabate in Bamako; ate with the Dogon people in 134°F temperature |
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Sahara |
Encountered participants in the Paris-Dakar rally |
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Full Circle |
Attended a lucha libre match |
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New Europe |
Saw a children's play that told of the problem of [...] trafficking in the country |
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Sahara |
Visited a hammam after injuring himself in a soccer game in Tangier |
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Himalaya |
Crossed the border with India, which ran right though a Konyak hut Palin was staying in; did calisthenic exercises that spanned the countries |
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Himalaya |
Trekked up to base camp at Mount Everest |
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Full Circle |
Got in the middle of freshman orientation ritual at the University of Otago in Dunedin and later noted he was the only one "...who didn't have [...] all over him." |
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Sahara |
Visited the Cure Salee nomadic festival in the town of Ingal |
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Pole to Pole |
Panned for gold in the Karasjoka River |
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North Pole |
Pole to Pole |
Start of the journey |
Himalaya |
Start of the journey Attended a polo match at the Shandur Pass between teams from Chitral and Gilgit |
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Full Circle |
Traveled the Amazon River |
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Full Circle |
Judged the Miss Bella Pacifica pageant in Zamboanga; drove his own jeepney |
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New Europe |
Interviewed Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa Observed the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau |
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Around the World in 80 Days |
Drove to the border whilst trying to meet up with the crew in Dubai |
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(South Korea) |
Full Circle |
Witnessed a wedding in Seoul |
(FYROM) |
New Europe |
Sailed on Lake Ohrid |
New Europe |
Spent a day with lumberjacks in the Maramureş Mountains |
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Full Circle, New Europe |
Sang with the Pacific Fleet Ensemble; attended National Day festivities in Kaliningrad Oblast |
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Around the World in 80 Days |
Drove from Jeddah to Dubai in one weekend |
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Sahara |
Visited Goree Island, where many slaves had their last sight of Africa |
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New Europe |
Sailed with a yacht club in Belgrade |
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Around the World in 80 Days |
Caught a vessel going to Hong Kong in the night |
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New Europe |
Visited the Tatra Mountains |
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New Europe |
Start of the journey |
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Pole to Pole |
Palin visited months after apartheid was abolished |
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Hemingway Adventure, Sahara |
Attended the Festival of San Fermin and the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona; toured the enclave of Ceuta |
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Pole to Pole |
Traveled the distance from London to Oxford in 24 hours while traveling from Khartoum to Gedaref |
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Around the World in 80 Days |
Passed through on the Orient Express |
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Pole to Pole, Hemingway Adventure |
Took the world's oldest ferry from Kigoma down to Mpulungu, Zambia; saw Mount Kilimanjaro |
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Himalaya |
Toured Potala Palace in Lhasa |
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New Europe |
Observed National Day festivities in the capital of Tiraspol |
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Sahara |
Revisited the places where he and Monty Python filmed Life of Brian |
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Pole to Pole, New Europe |
Stayed in Pera Palas, where Agatha Christie wrote [...] on the Orient Express; stayed at a cave house in Göreme |
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Hemingway Adventure |
Saw where Hemingway's planes crashed in 1954 |
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New Europe |
Reunited with a man he met on a train in Pole to Pole |
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(what are now , , and ) |
Pole to Pole |
Palin visited right before the collapse of the Soviet Union |
Around the World in 80 Days |
Caught a dhow across the Arabian Sea to Bombay |
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Around the World in 80 Days |
Where Palin began/ended his first journey (Reform Club) |
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Around the World in 80 Days, Full Circle, Hemingway Adventure |
Start/end of "Full Circle" and "Hemingway Adventure" One of only two countries (China is the other) that Palin visited in three journeys One of only three countries (Algeria and India are the others) that Palin traveled into three times in the same journey (Full Circle) |
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Full Circle |
Went through the Củ Chi tunnels |
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Sahara |
Met with a member of the Polisario Front |
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Pole to Pole |
Palin visited right after the ouster of Kenneth Kaunda |
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Pole to Pole |
Chatted with members of the BBC- the Bulawayo Bowlers Club |