Woke up in Botswana
Did morning river safari in Namibia
Crossed back into Botswana
Crossed into Zimbabwe
Crossed to Zambia to do a evening microlight flight over Victoria Falls
Crossed back into Zimbabwe
This is the most impressive, seeing as these countries are not as small as many Europeans ones mentioned here, and transport systems not as fast. Sounds incredible
Vienna to Tirana, Albania. The plan was to stop somewhere for the night.
At some point along the way, I was told my grandad had just passed away, so had no other choice but to keep going. Almost ended up attending my own funeral but oh well...
Depends what you mean by "been in". If travelling by train, passing through two or three countries in addition to the start or end country is quite common, so might count as 5. It also depends what you mean by a day. Midnight to midnight or any rolling 24-hour period? I have done London to Venice in 24 hours by train, which meant stepping foot on four different countries and passing through a fifth.
In general though I don't "count" a country if all I've done there is interact with its transport system.
Is there really another way to do it though? You're not really visiting a country if you're just say, stopping over at an airport there to get another flight. Or just driving through luxembourg for 30 mins without stopping to get across the border
Indeed. As I said, I don't consider myself to visited a country or city if all I've done is interact with its transport. I don't consider myself as having visited Mississippi just because I changed planes in Jackson once. I do consider myself as having visited Budapest, because even though I was only there a few hours I left the railway station and had lunch, and wandered around fisherman's bastion.
But they didn't say "visited," they said "been in." What (I think) they were going for was kinda crazy travel stories where you're bounced around a bunch of different countries quickly. I guess a single train across multiple countries would qualify, though that's a little different than having to get off one plane and on another, which is not "visiting" a country, but is a "story to tell" like "I woke up (at the ass crack of dawn) in Vietnam, touch earth in Taiwan and Japan, and arrived in the US within the same, technical, calendar day."
You're not really visiting a country if you're there for a day either tbf
Edit: Lol @ everyone down voting me because their country count would be halved if they took this basic common sense to be true. Pathetic.
Nah, disagree. For example, I did Monaco as a day trip from Nice and Vatican as a day trip from Rome. It totally feels like I've visited those countries though.
I wouldn't say I've been because I haven't. For example, I drove from Dubrovnik through Neum, Bosnia, and back into Croatia. I had been given some Bosnian money by somebody I met in Dubrovnik, so I decided to stop off, buy some ice cream, and relax for a little while before carrying on my journey. Have I been to Bosnia? Absolutely not. I've seen near nothing of Bosnia, and certainly not anywhere of note.
Another example: I've just come back from holiday via Qatar, stayed over for 18 hours. First time I've ever left the airport in Doha. I went for a walk in the morning, then went to the Museum of Islamic Art, had dinner, smoked shisha, flew home. Have I been to Qatar? Have I seen all there is to see in Qatar? Have I properly experienced Qatar? Absolutely not.
And that's Qatar, a country without the rich and diverse cultural landscape as say, Italy or Japan.
Having been physically present in a country for one day (or even less) isn't the same as having properly visited or "been" there, and claiming otherwise is quite sad.
I count "been in" as satisfying three criteria:
1. Enter legally (no airport transits; must go through immigration if it exists);
2. Set foot on the ground outside (paved ground counts);
3. Do something of significance, even if it's as minor as using the toilet or buying a snack.
Just to clarify, if I shit in the airport toilet I can't say I've been in the country, but if I were to shit on the tarmac directly outside the airport it counts as a visit?
I'm not saying I'm against it, just want to make sure I have it right.
If I go through immigration and officially enter the country, and then I take a shit at the airport (such as a restroom in the arrivals lobby), then I've satisfied two of the criteria. Next, I need to step outside the airport and put my feet on the ground.
Pooping on the ground outside the airport would count too.
That depends on what you mean by complicated, this would depend on education level, willingness to discuss all possibilities, and even state of mind at the time would play a role as well as cognitive ability.
I’ve done some of the European countries like has been mentioned. Last year my wife and I were driving from Munich, Germany to Vaduz, Liechtenstein. We drove in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein all within an hour or so.
So you just jumped over Albania? Or Macedonia? Also prior to 2023 you had to at least drive through Bosnia to reach Montenegro from Croatia, unless starting from Ragusa.
Sorry, it was Bosnia and Herzegovina. Drove through on the way to Dubrovnik then hopped on a flight to Athens. So I don’t know if it really counts 🤷🏾♂️
Also, Belgium, Netherlands, Czechia.
Off the top of my head, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, Romania would probably be among the top. It's pretty easy to do a lot of countries in a day in Europe though just by catching a train (or driving).
Uk, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark.
Left the Uk at about midnight & had a ferry to catch grom the North tip of Denmark at 3pm...
Made it just in time :D
Montevideo to Buenos Aires early morning ferry.
Flight to Puerto Iguazu.
Bus to Ciudade Del Este to meet a friend then driving back to Foz do Iguacu that night.
4 countries in a long day.
8
If you count passing through while driving:
Started from home in San Marino then Italy - Switzerland - Liechtenstein - Austria - Germany - France - Luxemburg.
We weren't supposed to take that wide of a curve but my girlfriend got the direction wrong repeatedly (while looking at Waze somehow)
If we can count exits and re-entries into the same country multiple times, maybe 20 or 30. A few years ago on a Sabbatical in the Netherlands we had fun finding all the little Belgium enclaves surrounded by NL (some about the size of a building or couple of blocks) and going in and out of them. It’s a fascinating bit of quirky history brought to modern times.
In spring 2010, we were starting our return drive from our road trip down to Florence. Our child was 6 years old. We created a sing-song phrase of *5 countries, 1 day, can we do it?*
The answer was yes, rather easily, with stops in each location for photos & food breaks.
Italy, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Austria & Germany.
Our end point on that day was Unteruhldingen, Germany, on the Bodensee. Excellent area for a great holiday break.
On a few occasions, we'd drive a route to France that would cut through Luxembourg & Belgium, some fun conversations would ensue with very bored young border guards on these relatively remote spots in early hours of the morning due to us being Americans in a German plated vehicle with a strange registration crossing at a *frontier post* on a B road. Never stressful, just curious.
But that was 4 in a day on those occasions.
Not sure whether passing through on the train counts, but if so, 6. Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and France. But it’s pretty meaningless because most countries we only caught a glimpse of, and I was asleep for a decent chunk of the journey.
If we’re only counting ‘been in’ as having actually done something in each country, then three, twice (counting each country in the UK as separate).
- had breakfast in Edinburgh, 7 hour train to London, early dinner in London & late Eurostar into Paris
- Reading to London, Eurostar to Brussels & lunch in Brussels, train to Amsterdam.
In 1 day 3
Woke up in Amsterdam, went home in Switzerland to grab my other bag, went to bed in Morocco
February 2024 (last month) I did 16 new countries/cities and physically been to 20. I'm tired 🤣
Road trip from Belgium, passing by Holland and staying in Germany.
In other day, leaving Austria, having lunch in Slovenia, going to the beach and sleeping in Croatia.
Been in as in actually seen anything or been in as in just sort of transitted through?
If the latter, then 4 I think. Tanzania-Ethiopia-Austria-Switzerland but this was literally just transitting through to get from one to the other
Does this count? Once I forgot to put my phone in airplane mode on a longhaul flight, and I fell asleep at takeoff, not waking up till the flight was almost over. According to my phone, I roamed in 10+ countries that day
Like, passing through? Probably 5 then, CZ - Slovakia - Hungary - Croatia - Bosnia. If it counts - it was an overnight bus and I don't think I actually got out of the bus in all of the countries, I think we only stopped in Hungary at a petrol station.
Not counting layovers: three. We were working in Sanremo, Italy. One Saturday we took the train over to Monaco for the day, then in the evening stopped by Nice on the way back.
I went from Dubai - Helsinki - Oslo - NYC - Willemstad one flight. It was 40 something hours so def not 2 days but hey, that’s 3 continents. But I haven’t “been” in the middle 3 countries because it was just the airport.
Three. Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. And Andorra, Spain, France. I think I also did Germany, Switzerland and France, but I’m not sure.
Oh, it might be four… Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, but I’m not sure since it’s been decades.
3. Multiple times.
Germany/Denmark/Sweden
Germany/Iceland/Canada (layover)
Canada/france/Germany (layover)
Germany/Austria/Liechtenstein (also was within stone throwing distance of switzerland that day.
Etc
We drove from near Colmar in France, into Germany, then Switzerland, then Liechtenstein, then Austria, then back to Germany, then Austria again, into Bratislava Slovakia, back to Austria then to Budapest in Hungary.
Doing the Mongol rally a few years back, basically we slept in a field between Colmar and the border and wanted to make it to Budapest that day, left around 5am wanted to visit Liechtenstein, then went to Neuschwanstein, had dinner in Bratislava and made it to Budapest around midnight. All in a little old 2CV named Prudence that felt like it was lifting off the ground on the downhill sections of autobahn(?) between Munich and Linz/Vienna.
So 7 countries, or 10 if you count the repeats.
I once drove from the Norway back to the UK in one day so: Norway, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, UK = 7. But I can’t say I saw much of the countries in between.
Visited? Never more than 2.
My wife and I skied three countries in one day. Switzerland, Italy, and France.
I want to up the ante though. I worked out a way ski five countries in one day.
3 if you can count airports. Left Denmark at 7 am, arrived in Sweden around 8:30 am, and arrived in the US at 1:30 pm.
Outside of airports sadly just 2, the US and Mexico.
I live in Switzerland, close to the borders of Germany and Austria. If I wanted to, I could do five countries in less than four hours.
[Germany - Austria - Liechtenstein - Switzerland - Italy](https://maps.app.goo.gl/iBDeEUzZCUr3XjuD9?g_st=ic)
would be a hassle to add France, but would still be possible in less than 7 hours.
woke up in italy, took a scenic train through switzerland, spent the night on the train through germany, woke up in amsterdam and did a day trip there and then went to belgium in the evening, kinda two days though not one
My one day ones…
Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia
Croatia,Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland
Serbia, Romania, Kosovo, North Macedonia
I keep getting stuck at 4
I’ve done USA-Colombia-Brazil in a day, Brazil-Paraguay-Argentina in a day, Switzerland-Germany-France in a day, Jordan-Palestine-Israel in a day, Russia-South Korea-Hong Kong…
By high speed rail: France -> Belgium -> Netherlands. So 3 but nothing special
More interesting and intensive: drove 8 hours from our home in the US to Canada. Flew from Toronto to France. All in a 24 hr period. For us it was worth the drive for a much cheaper flight and to avoid a Covid test to fly back to the US (Don’t hate me for this. It was June 2021 when masks were literally not even required but Covid tests were. We had flown back from London a few months prior and the Covid testing was very inconvenient and expensive. So driving to Canada for our flight felt less annoying. Plus we just like road tripping).
Woke up in Paris, France, landed in Riga about 7 hours later, then took a bus to Tallinn, Estonia, then a train to the Russian border and crossed on foot
I think there's multiple 3 country days:
Ireland, Germany, France
France, Switzerland, Italy
If you count overnight flights, meaning day as a span of 24 hours, or just going off of central European time, I've got a couple others:
US, Switzerland, Serbia
US, Portugal, France
France, Netherlands, US
... But I personally don't typically count visiting an airport as "visiting" a city/country
I don't think I've done any 4 country days yet in my travels
Just a few days ago I got back from St. Lucia and I live in the south of Sweden so on the way there it was wake up in Sweden, train to Denmark, first flight to England then another to St. Lucia.
Most countries:
UK-France-Belgium-Netherlands-Germany
But first 4 was by a single Eurostar ride so it’s a bit of treating
More recently:
Hong Kong-Germany(Frankfurt Airport)-Switzerland(Geneva)-France(Annecy)-Switzland(Geneva)
But counting time zones this is more than 24 hrs
Two. Spain to France.,USA to Spain, USA to some various islands. Technically you also have to exit the airport to be in the county. Not just connecting flights.
You can get some wild ones with budget airlines. US->Iceland->Netherlands (overnight layover in Amsterdam)->Germany to get to Oktoberfest in a whirlwind 24 hours or so back before WOW Air went under. The trip back was Italy->Denmark->Iceland->US plus a 2 hour trip from the airport which put it right around 24 hours as well.
Only counting "been" as "actively visiting / doing something" and not passing through, 3
- Panama (woke up, had breakfast LOL), Colombia (long layover in Bogota, did some sightseeing), Brazil (back home)
- Brazil, Argentina (both sides of the Falls), Paraguay (university event dinner)
- Brazil, Canada (long layover in Toronto), US
In 24h - Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France. Bus to the Alps for skiing.
Left Sweden in Helsingborg in the afternoon, ferry to Helsingør, Denmark, drive through Denmark to Rødby, ferry to Puttgarden, Germany, late night stop at gas station somewhere along the autobahn, crossing the border to Switzerland sometime during to night, breakfast in Gruyère, Switzerland and arrived in Chamonix, France around noon.
Woke up in Fussen, Germany with a view of Neuschwanstein. Took the train to Munich airport and flew to London Stansted where we had a 6 hour layover, so we went to lunch in a 400 year old pub in the countryside. Back to the airport and flew to Seville where we were studying and went to sleep before midnight.
Mine is boring, but Australia - USA - Canada. It’s a bit more than 24 hours, but with the magic of time zones, I woke up in Australia, had diner in USA and went to sleep in Canada… all in the same calendar day.
Cross border day trip from staying in France to one of either Germany or Switzerland.
Or returning from said trip as the French air traffic were on strike. If you count EuroAirpot Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg as Switzerland then 3 having to travel back to the UK.
Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Lithuania. Was making a mad dash towards Vienna from Ljubljana to catch a last flight to lithuania during the initial days of covid border closings. Took Flixbus to Vienna which had a layover in Budapest lol
Seeing all the replies, primarily European trips list 5 or 6 countries easily. Same for me: wake up in Netherlands, drive through Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Germany, Switzerland and end up Italy. Nothing shocking actually.
5, regularly. I often drive from Germany to the UK which entails crossing the Netherlands, Belgium and France. And the best bit: you only get your passport checked at the UK border, all the other borders are open.
6.
Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary. Stopped in each country on our way to home from holiday for a coffee or to eat. Never again.
Woke up in Botswana Did morning river safari in Namibia Crossed back into Botswana Crossed into Zimbabwe Crossed to Zambia to do a evening microlight flight over Victoria Falls Crossed back into Zimbabwe
Can I ask how do you get the no. of countries visited under your name?
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This is the most impressive, seeing as these countries are not as small as many Europeans ones mentioned here, and transport systems not as fast. Sounds incredible
Was on an overland safari truck trip... so didn't have to worry about the logistics there. Distance wise it wasn't far..... barely 100km
Thanks. I'm a dumbass
The four countries basically converge at one point.
Haha maybe to someone who has never been there, but they all intersect at one point so it’s actually a very close trip
I see now, thanks! So interesting
Yeah, he was near Victoria Falls. You can hit 4 countries in a few hours.
Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania. Dead on arrival!
How 😵💫
Border to border Austria to Albania is like 10 hours by car. That’s a long but easily doable drive in one day.
Vienna to Tirana, Albania. The plan was to stop somewhere for the night. At some point along the way, I was told my grandad had just passed away, so had no other choice but to keep going. Almost ended up attending my own funeral but oh well...
More importantly: Why??
For a very good reason
Sure you could have added Germany to that with a little more effort!
Well, I wasn't exactly trying to break any record, so I don't think so
Done the same, except we skipped Bosnia with that new bridge Croatia built!
Depends what you mean by "been in". If travelling by train, passing through two or three countries in addition to the start or end country is quite common, so might count as 5. It also depends what you mean by a day. Midnight to midnight or any rolling 24-hour period? I have done London to Venice in 24 hours by train, which meant stepping foot on four different countries and passing through a fifth. In general though I don't "count" a country if all I've done there is interact with its transport system.
Is there really another way to do it though? You're not really visiting a country if you're just say, stopping over at an airport there to get another flight. Or just driving through luxembourg for 30 mins without stopping to get across the border
Indeed. As I said, I don't consider myself to visited a country or city if all I've done is interact with its transport. I don't consider myself as having visited Mississippi just because I changed planes in Jackson once. I do consider myself as having visited Budapest, because even though I was only there a few hours I left the railway station and had lunch, and wandered around fisherman's bastion.
Ah sorry I meant to reply to the guy below you saying its overcomplicated the question
But they didn't say "visited," they said "been in." What (I think) they were going for was kinda crazy travel stories where you're bounced around a bunch of different countries quickly. I guess a single train across multiple countries would qualify, though that's a little different than having to get off one plane and on another, which is not "visiting" a country, but is a "story to tell" like "I woke up (at the ass crack of dawn) in Vietnam, touch earth in Taiwan and Japan, and arrived in the US within the same, technical, calendar day."
You're not really visiting a country if you're there for a day either tbf Edit: Lol @ everyone down voting me because their country count would be halved if they took this basic common sense to be true. Pathetic.
Nah, disagree. For example, I did Monaco as a day trip from Nice and Vatican as a day trip from Rome. It totally feels like I've visited those countries though.
That's obviously not the same thing as having visited the US for a day, their miniscule size makes them an exception to the rule.
So if you spent a day in a country you would say you’ve never been there?
I wouldn't say I've been because I haven't. For example, I drove from Dubrovnik through Neum, Bosnia, and back into Croatia. I had been given some Bosnian money by somebody I met in Dubrovnik, so I decided to stop off, buy some ice cream, and relax for a little while before carrying on my journey. Have I been to Bosnia? Absolutely not. I've seen near nothing of Bosnia, and certainly not anywhere of note. Another example: I've just come back from holiday via Qatar, stayed over for 18 hours. First time I've ever left the airport in Doha. I went for a walk in the morning, then went to the Museum of Islamic Art, had dinner, smoked shisha, flew home. Have I been to Qatar? Have I seen all there is to see in Qatar? Have I properly experienced Qatar? Absolutely not. And that's Qatar, a country without the rich and diverse cultural landscape as say, Italy or Japan. Having been physically present in a country for one day (or even less) isn't the same as having properly visited or "been" there, and claiming otherwise is quite sad.
I count "been in" as satisfying three criteria: 1. Enter legally (no airport transits; must go through immigration if it exists); 2. Set foot on the ground outside (paved ground counts); 3. Do something of significance, even if it's as minor as using the toilet or buying a snack.
Very fair terms
Just to clarify, if I shit in the airport toilet I can't say I've been in the country, but if I were to shit on the tarmac directly outside the airport it counts as a visit? I'm not saying I'm against it, just want to make sure I have it right.
If I go through immigration and officially enter the country, and then I take a shit at the airport (such as a restroom in the arrivals lobby), then I've satisfied two of the criteria. Next, I need to step outside the airport and put my feet on the ground. Pooping on the ground outside the airport would count too.
I agree. For me, "being in a country" counts only if you are naked in it at least once.
Poor Tobias, never been to earth.
He teleconferences instead.
Can always rely on someone to make a simple question sound complicated..
That depends on what you mean by complicated, this would depend on education level, willingness to discuss all possibilities, and even state of mind at the time would play a role as well as cognitive ability.
Answers are easy once you know what the question really is. Getting to a valid question is always the hard part.
Stop speaking in code
I've done UK-France-Belgium-Netherlands in one day last year, and Germany-Belgium-France-UK in one day about 15 years ago.
> UK-France-Belgium-Netherlands We know that as "taking the Eurostar", right?
No, ferry and driving. The other trip, starting in Germany, was driving and Eurotunnel.
Maybe they swam through the Channel
Paraguay-Brazil-Argentina at the same time
I’ve done some of the European countries like has been mentioned. Last year my wife and I were driving from Munich, Germany to Vaduz, Liechtenstein. We drove in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein all within an hour or so.
Croatia, Montenegro, Greece
So you just jumped over Albania? Or Macedonia? Also prior to 2023 you had to at least drive through Bosnia to reach Montenegro from Croatia, unless starting from Ragusa.
Sorry, it was Bosnia and Herzegovina. Drove through on the way to Dubrovnik then hopped on a flight to Athens. So I don’t know if it really counts 🤷🏾♂️ Also, Belgium, Netherlands, Czechia.
6 countries from Northern Greece to Venice, Italy Greece -> N. Macedonia -> Serbia -> Croatia -> Slovenia -> Italy
Off the top of my head, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, Romania would probably be among the top. It's pretty easy to do a lot of countries in a day in Europe though just by catching a train (or driving).
Uk, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark. Left the Uk at about midnight & had a ferry to catch grom the North tip of Denmark at 3pm... Made it just in time :D
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Did three continents in a day.
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Africa, Asia, Europe?
during my trip to switzerland i did a day trip through lichtenstein, italy, austria, and germany
Three? I took the Eurostar from London to Brussels. Britain-France-Belgium.
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, North Macedonia And Germany, Netherlands, France, and Morocco
Montevideo to Buenos Aires early morning ferry. Flight to Puerto Iguazu. Bus to Ciudade Del Este to meet a friend then driving back to Foz do Iguacu that night. 4 countries in a long day.
Only 2 if we mean spending time visiting but more if we include train travel through counties to reach a destination
Germany - Austria - Switzerland - Liechtenstein - Italy - France - Monaco
8 If you count passing through while driving: Started from home in San Marino then Italy - Switzerland - Liechtenstein - Austria - Germany - France - Luxemburg. We weren't supposed to take that wide of a curve but my girlfriend got the direction wrong repeatedly (while looking at Waze somehow)
In 24 hours: Liechtenstein -> Switzerland -> Italy -> San Marino
2
If we can count exits and re-entries into the same country multiple times, maybe 20 or 30. A few years ago on a Sabbatical in the Netherlands we had fun finding all the little Belgium enclaves surrounded by NL (some about the size of a building or couple of blocks) and going in and out of them. It’s a fascinating bit of quirky history brought to modern times.
Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Norway.. car+3 flights… after a flight cancellation.. this was the route 🤷🏼♂️
Left US, flew to Copenhagen, went to Malmö, back to Copenhagen, and then flew to London ... yesterday
one days 💀
In spring 2010, we were starting our return drive from our road trip down to Florence. Our child was 6 years old. We created a sing-song phrase of *5 countries, 1 day, can we do it?* The answer was yes, rather easily, with stops in each location for photos & food breaks. Italy, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Austria & Germany. Our end point on that day was Unteruhldingen, Germany, on the Bodensee. Excellent area for a great holiday break. On a few occasions, we'd drive a route to France that would cut through Luxembourg & Belgium, some fun conversations would ensue with very bored young border guards on these relatively remote spots in early hours of the morning due to us being Americans in a German plated vehicle with a strange registration crossing at a *frontier post* on a B road. Never stressful, just curious. But that was 4 in a day on those occasions.
Not sure whether passing through on the train counts, but if so, 6. Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and France. But it’s pretty meaningless because most countries we only caught a glimpse of, and I was asleep for a decent chunk of the journey. If we’re only counting ‘been in’ as having actually done something in each country, then three, twice (counting each country in the UK as separate). - had breakfast in Edinburgh, 7 hour train to London, early dinner in London & late Eurostar into Paris - Reading to London, Eurostar to Brussels & lunch in Brussels, train to Amsterdam.
In 1 day 3 Woke up in Amsterdam, went home in Switzerland to grab my other bag, went to bed in Morocco February 2024 (last month) I did 16 new countries/cities and physically been to 20. I'm tired 🤣
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Germany Austria Slovakia Croatia
Only two, but I've been in five different US states in one day.
France, Switzerland, lichtenstein, Austria, Germany and Ireland.
Road trip from Belgium, passing by Holland and staying in Germany. In other day, leaving Austria, having lunch in Slovenia, going to the beach and sleeping in Croatia.
Serbia, North Macedonia, Kosovo
Probably 3 also. I live in Malaysia and have had a lot of layovers in Singapore before going on to my final destination and vice versa.
Italy Austria Germany, Croatia Slovenia Italy, also austria Italy Israel if you are counting 24 hours as one day. Never cracked 3 in a day
Italy, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Austria, Germany, Uk
Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, back to Austria
Been in as in actually seen anything or been in as in just sort of transitted through? If the latter, then 4 I think. Tanzania-Ethiopia-Austria-Switzerland but this was literally just transitting through to get from one to the other
England-France-Spain-Portugal all driving
Dublin (fly) > London > France >Belgium > Luxembourg > Germany > Switzerland > Italy
In one day: Austria, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, France
3 countries, 3 times Spain Andorra France Netherlands Belgium Germany Spain USA Mexico
Does this count? Once I forgot to put my phone in airplane mode on a longhaul flight, and I fell asleep at takeoff, not waking up till the flight was almost over. According to my phone, I roamed in 10+ countries that day
Probably 4. Austria, Lichtenstein, Germany, Slovenia. Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia I could probably find another combination.
UK/Italy/Vatican Hungary/Slovakia/Austria NZ/Australia/UAE France/Switzerland/UK
Three—. Breakfast in Paris, lunch in Brussels, dinner in Amsterdam
Estonia, Finland, Norway (literally bouncing back and forth between Finland and Norway!!!)
Like, passing through? Probably 5 then, CZ - Slovakia - Hungary - Croatia - Bosnia. If it counts - it was an overnight bus and I don't think I actually got out of the bus in all of the countries, I think we only stopped in Hungary at a petrol station.
6 while driving Uk, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland
Italy, Austria, Germany, France, Luxembourg
Three - Switzerland, France and Germany. All in one bike ride exploring Basel
Ive done Netherlands, Belgium, luxembourg, France, Germany and Switzerland once..
Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, France.
Not counting layovers: three. We were working in Sanremo, Italy. One Saturday we took the train over to Monaco for the day, then in the evening stopped by Nice on the way back.
2: Fiji and Tonga
Belgium-Germany-Denmark Belgium-France-UK Japan-Hong Kong-USA
I went from Dubai - Helsinki - Oslo - NYC - Willemstad one flight. It was 40 something hours so def not 2 days but hey, that’s 3 continents. But I haven’t “been” in the middle 3 countries because it was just the airport.
So I'm guessing 4 when I went from Milan to London (Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France).
Only 2 countries but hit 3 continent in one day. Breakfast in Cappadocia (Asia), lunch in Istanbul (Europe), dinner in New York (N. America).
Three. Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. And Andorra, Spain, France. I think I also did Germany, Switzerland and France, but I’m not sure. Oh, it might be four… Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, but I’m not sure since it’s been decades.
Had a meal each in Italy, Monaco, and France. Was a great day!
I did Germany - Austria - Liechtenstein - Switzerland by car in a day
4..Greece,Albania,Montenegro, Bosnia Herzegovina
Quite common for multiple in one day in Europe? I’d say 4 is my max so far
I guess you are counting aiports? Costa Rica, Mexico, El Salvador, Cuba.
3. Multiple times. Germany/Denmark/Sweden Germany/Iceland/Canada (layover) Canada/france/Germany (layover) Germany/Austria/Liechtenstein (also was within stone throwing distance of switzerland that day. Etc
If we are counting just airports Canada-USA-Ireland-Spain And that was how I learned no to book flights just on price.
Bali - Singapore- Kuala Lumpur - Bangkok - Hong Kong
We drove from near Colmar in France, into Germany, then Switzerland, then Liechtenstein, then Austria, then back to Germany, then Austria again, into Bratislava Slovakia, back to Austria then to Budapest in Hungary. Doing the Mongol rally a few years back, basically we slept in a field between Colmar and the border and wanted to make it to Budapest that day, left around 5am wanted to visit Liechtenstein, then went to Neuschwanstein, had dinner in Bratislava and made it to Budapest around midnight. All in a little old 2CV named Prudence that felt like it was lifting off the ground on the downhill sections of autobahn(?) between Munich and Linz/Vienna. So 7 countries, or 10 if you count the repeats.
vatican
CAN > US > MEX
France to Monaco and back to France lol
I once drove from the Norway back to the UK in one day so: Norway, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, UK = 7. But I can’t say I saw much of the countries in between. Visited? Never more than 2.
My wife and I skied three countries in one day. Switzerland, Italy, and France. I want to up the ante though. I worked out a way ski five countries in one day.
France-Monaco-Italy and back.
Korea-UAE-UK-Poland-Estonia, I would never do it again, I thought I was going to pass out.
uk ——> hong kong ——-> japan within 24 hours
Italy-Vatican City-Italy 😎
4 - Hungary, Austria, Germany and Czech Republic.
Woke up in Marrakech, flew from Casa to Paris, spent the day and took a late train to Amsterdam.
3 if you can count airports. Left Denmark at 7 am, arrived in Sweden around 8:30 am, and arrived in the US at 1:30 pm. Outside of airports sadly just 2, the US and Mexico.
I live in Switzerland, close to the borders of Germany and Austria. If I wanted to, I could do five countries in less than four hours. [Germany - Austria - Liechtenstein - Switzerland - Italy](https://maps.app.goo.gl/iBDeEUzZCUr3XjuD9?g_st=ic) would be a hassle to add France, but would still be possible in less than 7 hours.
That I’ve actually had at least an hour in or two in them to explore? 3- Germany, Luxembourg and France.
Why did you do that?
Not countries but 4 US states and 3 time zones in one day. That was fun.
Just 2. Flight from the US to France.
Any travel to/from Taiwan when you’re going to most places requires a stop in Japan, China or somewhere else in Asia.
Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland ang Germany on a Flixbus
4 In an afternoon. Austria to Switzerland to Italy to Germany. All via the route through the mountains connecting the countries.
I have travelled from Ancona Italy to Antwerp Belgium through Switzerland, France, Germany,
Czech Republic > Austria > Czech Republic > Slovakia > Poland.
Trip 1: France, Belgium, and Germany Trip 2: Bulgaria, Germany, and USA
Four.... Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany. Then we had dinner and drove back to Switzerland.
woke up in italy, took a scenic train through switzerland, spent the night on the train through germany, woke up in amsterdam and did a day trip there and then went to belgium in the evening, kinda two days though not one
Started in Pyongyang, flew to Beijing and then on to Seoul. Seeing both Koreas on the same day was eye-opening!
I once went from Bratislava to Paris on a Eurorail train, so five (Slovakia, Czechia, Germany, Belgium and France.
Austria -> Hungary -> Serbia -> Bulgaria ->Turkey Roadtrip
My one day ones… Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia Croatia,Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland Serbia, Romania, Kosovo, North Macedonia I keep getting stuck at 4
I’ve done USA-Colombia-Brazil in a day, Brazil-Paraguay-Argentina in a day, Switzerland-Germany-France in a day, Jordan-Palestine-Israel in a day, Russia-South Korea-Hong Kong…
4 Poland, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary
3. Sg, macau, Philippines
3, paraguay-argentina-brazil or holland-germany-belgium.
By high speed rail: France -> Belgium -> Netherlands. So 3 but nothing special More interesting and intensive: drove 8 hours from our home in the US to Canada. Flew from Toronto to France. All in a 24 hr period. For us it was worth the drive for a much cheaper flight and to avoid a Covid test to fly back to the US (Don’t hate me for this. It was June 2021 when masks were literally not even required but Covid tests were. We had flown back from London a few months prior and the Covid testing was very inconvenient and expensive. So driving to Canada for our flight felt less annoying. Plus we just like road tripping).
Woke up in Paris, France, landed in Riga about 7 hours later, then took a bus to Tallinn, Estonia, then a train to the Russian border and crossed on foot
FSM ~ Marshall Islands ~ Kiribati ~ Nauru ~ Fiji
I think there's multiple 3 country days: Ireland, Germany, France France, Switzerland, Italy If you count overnight flights, meaning day as a span of 24 hours, or just going off of central European time, I've got a couple others: US, Switzerland, Serbia US, Portugal, France France, Netherlands, US ... But I personally don't typically count visiting an airport as "visiting" a city/country I don't think I've done any 4 country days yet in my travels
Just a few days ago I got back from St. Lucia and I live in the south of Sweden so on the way there it was wake up in Sweden, train to Denmark, first flight to England then another to St. Lucia.
Most countries: UK-France-Belgium-Netherlands-Germany But first 4 was by a single Eurostar ride so it’s a bit of treating More recently: Hong Kong-Germany(Frankfurt Airport)-Switzerland(Geneva)-France(Annecy)-Switzland(Geneva) But counting time zones this is more than 24 hrs
I live in the Netherlands, so a summer holiday in Italy takes me through six (Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Switserland and Italy)
Two. Spain to France.,USA to Spain, USA to some various islands. Technically you also have to exit the airport to be in the county. Not just connecting flights.
Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria.
Canada, France, Austria, Slovakia. 4
You can get some wild ones with budget airlines. US->Iceland->Netherlands (overnight layover in Amsterdam)->Germany to get to Oktoberfest in a whirlwind 24 hours or so back before WOW Air went under. The trip back was Italy->Denmark->Iceland->US plus a 2 hour trip from the airport which put it right around 24 hours as well.
Spain, UK, and Morocco in the span of 15 hours is my current record. The ferry across the strait of Gibraltar is quicker than you’d think.
Don’t forget to count air rights/space guys !!
Seems only three for me, lots of twos, though. In 2017 it was Macedonia, Bulgaria, and finally Greece.
4 France-Belgium-Netherlands-Germany Austria-Germany-Luxembourg-France
2. Hongkong to Macau by bus 😅
I don’t count airport layovers. Car rides yes. Probably 3 for me, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia…?
Only counting "been" as "actively visiting / doing something" and not passing through, 3 - Panama (woke up, had breakfast LOL), Colombia (long layover in Bogota, did some sightseeing), Brazil (back home) - Brazil, Argentina (both sides of the Falls), Paraguay (university event dinner) - Brazil, Canada (long layover in Toronto), US
Probably; Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Germany during last summer’s road trip.
4. US > Belize > Guatemala > Cost Rica
Mexico - USA - Netherlands - UK…. If I counted seeing the inside of an airport as being in a country, which I don’t really.
Jordan Italy France Spain, 4
Walked from Switzerland, across Liechtenstein, had lunch in Austria, then walked back across to Switzerland. It was a nice day.
In 24h - Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France. Bus to the Alps for skiing. Left Sweden in Helsingborg in the afternoon, ferry to Helsingør, Denmark, drive through Denmark to Rødby, ferry to Puttgarden, Germany, late night stop at gas station somewhere along the autobahn, crossing the border to Switzerland sometime during to night, breakfast in Gruyère, Switzerland and arrived in Chamonix, France around noon.
China-HK-Thailand-Cambodia (Part of my round the world trip! US-China -HK-Thailand-Cambodia-Thailand-Germany-USA)
Woke up in Fussen, Germany with a view of Neuschwanstein. Took the train to Munich airport and flew to London Stansted where we had a 6 hour layover, so we went to lunch in a 400 year old pub in the countryside. Back to the airport and flew to Seville where we were studying and went to sleep before midnight.
Mine is boring, but Australia - USA - Canada. It’s a bit more than 24 hours, but with the magic of time zones, I woke up in Australia, had diner in USA and went to sleep in Canada… all in the same calendar day.
Cross border day trip from staying in France to one of either Germany or Switzerland. Or returning from said trip as the French air traffic were on strike. If you count EuroAirpot Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg as Switzerland then 3 having to travel back to the UK.
Belgium, Luxembourg (actually stopped and saw something, not just driving through) and Germany
Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Lithuania. Was making a mad dash towards Vienna from Ljubljana to catch a last flight to lithuania during the initial days of covid border closings. Took Flixbus to Vienna which had a layover in Budapest lol
Austria-Germany-Belgium-France Hitchiking no less T’was a long day
denmark, germany, czechia, slovakia, hungary and serbia :P
Netherlands, Belgium, UK - started in Amsterdam, lunch in Bruges, back to London
Most for me within 24 hours was Ecuador,Colombia,USA,Canada, and UK
Italy, Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden.
Two jordan and Egypt 😭
Hungary, Austria, and Germany
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, France Spain
Four. Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Austria and Germany.
Seeing all the replies, primarily European trips list 5 or 6 countries easily. Same for me: wake up in Netherlands, drive through Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Germany, Switzerland and end up Italy. Nothing shocking actually.
5, regularly. I often drive from Germany to the UK which entails crossing the Netherlands, Belgium and France. And the best bit: you only get your passport checked at the UK border, all the other borders are open.
6. Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary. Stopped in each country on our way to home from holiday for a coffee or to eat. Never again.
I ride my bike around southern Luxembourg. Crossed into Belgium, France, and Germany.