A man who has traveled to every country in the world has opened up about “one of worst” cities he has visited.
Drew Binsky, an Arizona native, has achieved an extraordinary travel feat: visiting every country in the world, according to his website.
After quitting his teaching job in 2015, the vlogger embarked on an adventure, documenting his travel experiences on his popular YouTube channel, which boasts a staggering 5 million subscribers.
Binsky hopes his platform helps people “become a better traveler and save money,” adding: “I want to be the #1 resource for you when you think about traveling, and I strive to be a role model for the high school/college kids who aspire to become travelers.”
The YouTuber’s adventures have been filled with extraordinary experiences, such as encountering cannibals on Papua Island or navigating China’s “world’s narrowest city”.
However, he found his visit to Conakry, the capital of Guinea, to be the most shocking, sharing that it is “one of the worst” countries he has been to “by far”.
Check out the video below:In a video titled “Ranking the top 20 best and worst cities on earth,” Binsky explained that he was “stopped by two policemen” 10 minutes after arriving in the city.
His friend remarked: “The whole city is insane!” while the explorer added: “When I arrived there, there was a coup…there were policemen lined up on the streets with big shield and bulletproof vests, like war was about to break out.”
The YouTuber then revealed that an official had “ratted them out” without providing much further context, before sharing: “Now our driver, poor Marlin, he has to deal with all this crap. He’s negotiating with them.”
He then disclosed that their chauffeur had to pay a $20 (£16.25) “bribe” to be allowed to continue their journey in the vehicle. “We got in the car and we drove off, ended up going to the next checkpoint ahead,” he added.
Out of all of the 197 nations he has visited around, Binsky said Conakry was “by far one of my least favorite places in the world,” before listing the problems he had experienced.
“The entire city smelt like trash. It was like sewage everywhere and like, I have a high tolerance for dirty places and I’ve seen a lot of things around the world…but Conakry was noticeably the worst,” he said.
“People there were not very friendly at all. In fact, I tried to sit down at a restaurant and then some dude kicked me out for reasons that I don’t know why,” he claimed, adding that the city felt like “one of the most unsafe”.
Despite the overall atmosphere, Binsky did experience a positive moment with a visit to a local mosque. “Other than that, I found nothing going on in the capital of Guinea,” he added.
“And it’s probably a place that I will never visit again,” he concluded in his review.
