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After his recent trip to Haiti, Jose Megre is very close to his objective of
knowing all the countries of the world, with 193 visited of a total of 194
(plus Kosovo which he visited some years ago). Jose Megre promises to
complete his world travel soon, by visiting Iraq, which is probably the most
difficult aim to achieve at the moment.
It is important to notice
that, the trips of Jose Megre aren’t made with the sole objective of getting
the stamp in the passport. His normal standard is to do, by car, the maximum
milage in all of them, trying to have the best knowledge of the countries
where he goes, having covered, so far, about a million kilometres outside
Portugal. Even in the last visited countries, most of them under severe
instability and traffic restrictions, he managed to drive several hundred
kilometres in each of them.
Among the 20
he visited in the last two years, most of them closed to tourism, we can
note Liberia, Afghanistan, North Korea, Nigeria, Zaire, Somalia, the very
small Nauru and Tuvalu in the Pacific, Tajikistan and Saudi Arabia, where
Jose Megre has been for three times last year, driving a total of 12 000
kilometres. This was his most recent and important discovery.
In 2007 he
made his third trip by car from Portugal to the South of Africa, this time
with destination Maputo in Mozambique. But, previously he had already
crossed 15 times the Sahara desert in six different itineraries. He knows
all the countries of Africa through these and several other trips that he
made in this continent, always by road.
Jose Megre
started to travel abroad, by car, at 13 years of age, first with his parents
and, until now, he hasn’t stopped. Beyond the itineraries in the African
continent referred, he crossed Europe and Asia for three times, making two
connections between the Atlantic and the Pacific, one in the Paris
Paris-Beijing Rally, another one in the Transiberian Train, and another that
took him from Lisbon to India, Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet by car.
In the two
American continents, he crossed for two times the United States and once
Canada, both from coast to coast. He also covered all the countries of
Central America and, for four times, South America, in journeys of about 15
000km each, always in different itineraries.
In fact,
Jose Megre’s objectives as a traveller, are not limited to know all the
countries in the world, but also, to do by car all the main itineraries of
the seven continents, crossing them from North to South and/or from East to
West. Thus, in 2005 he travelled to the Antarctica on the M.S. Explorer, a
ship that recently sunk during an identical expedition. He also covered
about 20 000 kilometres in Australia and, besides that, he visited all the
independent countries of the Oceania-Pacific continent.