Who is the most famous traveler?

1. Marco Polo (1254 -1324) Famed for his travels along the Silk Road, thirteenth-century Venetian Marco Polo is unquestionably one of the world's most famous historical explorers. One of the first European explorers to visit China, he left Venice in 1271 and crossed the Middle East with his family.



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The record is currently held by Vaidehi Thirrupathy. Indy Nelson from Hayward, California in 2017 became the youngest person, at 24, to visit all sovereign countries, having visited all 193 UN member states in 539 days.

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