{"id":285,"date":"2018-03-04T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2018-03-04T07:00:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T07:00:03","slug":"who-is-was-the-worlds-greatest-traveler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Who is\/was the world&#8217;s greatest traveler?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2006, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/the-10-greatest-travellers-of-all-time-6104262.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wanderlust<\/a> asked a selection of experts to pick the person who they believe has most changed the way we travel. There list of top 10 best travelers of all time was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FRIDTJOF NANSEN (1861-1930)<\/li>\n<li>CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451-1506)<\/li>\n<li>XUANZANG (602-644 OR 664)<\/li>\n<li>IBN BATTUTA (1304-1368 OR 1377)<\/li>\n<li>APHRA BEHN (1640-1689)<\/li>\n<li>CAPTAIN JAMES COOK (1728-1779)<\/li>\n<li>CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882)<\/li>\n<li>SIR RICHARD BURTON (1821-1890)<\/li>\n<li>YURI GAGARIN (1934-1968)<\/li>\n<li>MICHAEL PALIN (1943-)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/matthew-kepnes\/2014\/02\/10-most-legendary-and-infamous-travelers-in-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matthew Kepnes<\/a>\u00a0came up with another list of 10\u00a0amazing adventures who paved the way for future explorers and inspired generations of wanderlust. There were four names that made both lists, but six new names in the frame.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fridtjof Nansen<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Colombus<\/li>\n<li>Xuanzang<\/li>\n<li>Ibn Battuta<\/li>\n<li>Marco Polo<\/li>\n<li>Lewis and Clark<\/li>\n<li>Ernest Shackleton<\/li>\n<li>Freya Stark<\/li>\n<li>Ernest Hemingway<\/li>\n<li>Neil Armstrong<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For space exploration Neil Armstrong instead of\u00a0Yuri Gagarin. Modern day traveler and national treasure\u00a0Michael Palin had been dropped in favour of Ernest Hemingway.<\/p>\n<p>And a woman had made the list &#8211; Freya Stark,\u00a0\u2018the last of the Romantic travelers.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Moving on to 2017 and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/lists\/ten-famous-travelers-throughout-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Stone<\/a>\u00a0lists his top 10 travelers through history.\u00a0Xuanzang and Ibn Battuta are still on the list. So is Freya Stark, who is joined by Isabella Lucy Bird and\u00a0Kira Salak. Michael Palin also makes a return.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>XUANZANG<\/li>\n<li>IBN BATTUTA<\/li>\n<li>THOMAS JEFFERSON<\/li>\n<li>HOMER<\/li>\n<li>STRABO<\/li>\n<li>ISABELLA LUCY BIRD<\/li>\n<li>FREYA STARK<\/li>\n<li>BRUCE CHATWIN<\/li>\n<li>MICHAEL PALIN<\/li>\n<li>KIRA SALAK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Who would you say are your top travelers?<\/h3>\n<h3>Who currently influences you to travel?<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-287\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/02\/pexels-photo-414916.jpeg\" alt=\"pexels-photo-414916.jpeg\" width=\"1880\" height=\"1253\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2006, Wanderlust asked a selection of experts to pick the person who they believe has most changed the way we travel. There list of top 10 best travelers of all time was: FRIDTJOF NANSEN (1861-1930) CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451-1506) XUANZANG (602-644 OR 664) IBN BATTUTA (1304-1368 OR 1377) APHRA BEHN (1640-1689) CAPTAIN JAMES COOK &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=285\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who is\/was the world&#8217;s greatest traveler?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,2],"tags":[50,51,52,53,54],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-travel","tag-explorers","tag-freya-stark","tag-michael-palin","tag-travelers","tag-worlds-greatest-traveler"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who is\/was the world&#039;s greatest traveler? - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=285\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Who is\/was the world&#039;s greatest traveler? - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Back in 2006, Wanderlust asked a selection of experts to pick the person who they believe has most changed the way we travel. 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