My 10 Favorite Countries (After Visiting Them All)

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Drew Binsky

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My 10 Favorite Countries (After Visiting Them All)


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The most common question I get is “What’s Your Favorite Country?” — so…

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  1. Make a video about how many passports do you have and passports stamps I’m sure you kept renewing more than one because it’s filled with entry and exit stamps .

  2. Love this list, and your reasoning. Thanks. When I was twenty years old in 1972, I thought that the ideal career would be as a photojournalist that traveled everywhere. Well, there were maybe a couple of dozen people that did that back then and I didn't make the cut. Although I have still been able to do a lot of traveling and scuba diving, river rafting, mountain climbing etc., I love to share in your experiences and honest and unbiased evaluations. You are a blessing to my soul.

  3. Ive visited 68 countries. Almost all of them are wonderful. But the countries that take the cake for me are Portugal and Japan. Everything about them is just amazing. The food, the people, the culture, the history, the buildings and so much more was just impeccable. Especially Portugal. I felt a sense of comfort and safety and honestly felt at home. Probably the most beautiful country’s I’ve ever seen. Love for them 🇵🇹 🇯🇵

  4. It is strange that you did not include Italy in the list, while tens of millions of people visit it every year, including millions of your compatriots. Not to mention that in 2023 35 million people visited Rome and that many more will be in 2024 and 2025. I think this is due to the usual "mafia, spaghetti and mandolins" stereotype. We're fine with that 😂

  5. Thank you Drew for considering Phillippines as your #1. I’m Filipina, although I have lived in the US for decades now, I still call Cebu, Philippines as my home and can’t wait to move back for good someday.❤

  6. i came across your bottom 5 list and watched this one after. i was very very surprised that PH came first. (Im from PH) i was really impressed with the places on your list – Turkey and Japan were obvious choices. Namibia was a surprise. Afghanistan and Iran were fascinating. As I watched, I wondered if Philippines could be on this list. And I was pretty sure it would not be – since as we reached your top 5, I thought "man it would be very hard to beat that". But I was shocked when #1 was the Philippines. I guess me and many Filipinos take for granted all the good things that foreigners love about our country. The positive culture, the natural beauty, the diversity in many things like food, ways of living, places, people. Many Filipinos want to get out of the country. We have about 2.3 million Filipinos working abroad (about half the entire population of Ireland). When you are poor, you aspire to work abroad and send dollars to your family. There's a shortage of economic opportunity especially in the remote provinces. When you are middle and upper class, you aspire to travel to other countries to get away from the heat and chaos and to be able to post a profile pic with the eiffel tower or other foreign landmarks in the background. Then come back home and talk about how marvelous other countries are with better public transportation and airports and all that. Its always greener on the other side isnt it? But then, its one thing to be a foreigner (from a place with more powerful currency) moving into a low cost country like PH and its another to be a poor Filipino from a remote area, with very little opportunity to improve their quality of life. It's one thing to be a foreigner who will always be able to come home to good social security, benefits, retirement, public health care, public schools.. and another thing to be a middle class Filipino who has absolutely nothing to fall back on except his or her savings and possibility of a small inheritance and the hope that your children will be earning money from abroad and send you cash when you are retired. And then, needing to live with disfunctional government services and public infrastructure – no daycare, badly run public schools, hospitals and govt services. 2 hour travel time from the suburbs to the central office hubs in metro manila. Did not intend to have a negative tone, but this is what living in the Philippines is like for the majority of Filipinos. Its a dysfunctional beauty that most people have accepted but are trying to get away from if there's a chance. Its ironic that its #1 on your list. I think for many Filipinos, we both love and hate it at the same time.

  7. A good selection. I was surprised you mentioned Romblon, having spent a few weeks there many moons ago. A real Graham Greene kind of place, at least in the 80s. Upper Pakistan, biking from Islamabad to China, was my favorite venue, again, in the 80s. Cheers.

  8. As a woman I am going to vote no on Afganistan:) Somehow I dont think the Taliban would approve of me traveling the contry. And Iran is also going to be a no.

  9. Thank Drew for such an INTERESTING video especially regarding the food! One question, please. Since the Philippines is on the top on your list, have you tried BALUT yet? If not, shame on you! It''s their national favorite. If yes, do you like it? Cheers!

  10. I get the travel bug man. I'm in a LDR, I'm American, and shes Dutch, and the first time I visited her was also the first time I'd ever left the States. Once I was there, experiencing a different culture, I was hooked. Since then, we've traveled all throughout Western Europe and parts of Eastern Europe. We have so many more countries to see. The two we really want to visit are Turkey and Japan! Watching your videos gives us ideas of countries to go to that may not have been on our list!

  11. Man I was expecting you to put Turkey in like first three or something. Not that I think Turkey is just better than the others but after so many visits I thought you fell in love with Turkey 😂

  12. Lol there is a British youtuber who's been to Afghanistan multiple times during the Taliban's control and was even locked up for 9 months for breaking a law regarding permits for filming in restricted areas and it was much more humane than American jails. They even gave him permission to return and he loves it there.