Mikhail Zarubin & Alexander Zhdanov
The only two people
in the world who visited
every country together.
From their very first trip to their very last - side by side, for 22 years. No precedent exists anywhere on Earth.
193
UN Countries
97+
Australian towns & destinations
7.5+
Years in Hotels & on the Road
1.5M+
km traveled (2× to the Moon)
251
Territories & Regions
25
Years in Motion
~50×
Around the Planet
4M+
Social Followers
Every country. Every continent.
54
Africa
48
Asia
44
Europe
33
Americas
14
Pacific
193
Total UN
Country visited
Home base: Perth, Australia
+ 245 territories & regions
As featured in
People who have visited every country in the world
330
Holders of European Records · Book of Records · National Register of Records
Officially documented. Independently verified. One of the rarest achievements in human history.
metro SBS TEDx NomadMania Skyscanner
out of
Mikhail & Alexander
are two of them.
The only pair who traveled every country together —
from the very first trip to the very last. That is the record.
people on Earth
8,100,000,000
as a pair
2
About Us
Two friends. One planet. Every single country.
Mikhail Zarubin and Alexander Zhdanov began their journey as teenagers - not with a grand plan, but with a simple, restless curiosity about what lies beyond the horizon. Twenty-five years later, that curiosity had carried them to every nation on Earth, from the smallest island states in the Pacific to the most isolated war zones in Central Africa.
In August 2019, they completed their journey. Country 193. The last one. Together - exactly as they had been from country number one.
As of 2025, fewer than 330 people in recorded history have ever visited every country in the world. Among those, the overwhelming majority traveled alone. Not one other pair of travel partners has completed every country together, from their very first destination to their very last. The record is theirs alone.
Today they live in Perth, Western Australia. Since 2020, Australia has become a deep subject of study - from the Kimberley and Karijini in the north, to Tasmania and the Great Ocean Road in the south, to the outback of Queensland and the remote coast of WA. In 2025 they reached Antarctica. The journey is far from over. Between expeditions, they write, create, and build a growing archive that spans two and a half decades of the world's stories.
Mikhail has built one of the world's most engaged travel audiences - 1.9 million Instagram followers and an additional 2 million across TikTok, Telegram and Threads, reaching 80 million views per month entirely through organic content. Millions of people have followed their adventures for years, watching in real time as they discovered places few humans ever reach. Alexander has channelled the same experience into writing and into the museum project they have been quietly assembling for nearly two decades.
Together they hold European records, are listed in the Book of Records and the National Register of Records, and have been covered by Metro, SBS Australia, TEDx, and Skyscanner. Among their most singular experiences: both were personally invited to Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI for Christmas - an invitation they still hold, and one that captures something of the extraordinary access their journey has opened across the world.
"I didn't travel to see places. I traveled to find out what holds people together across cultures, borders, and languages. After 193 countries, I believe I found it - and it's not what anyone expects."
Mikhail Zarubin
"People ask what drives someone to visit every country. I ask: what stops everyone else? The world is not dangerous. It is misunderstood. And misunderstanding is a choice."
Alexander Zhdanov
By the numbers
193
UN Countries
245+
territories & regions
~50×
around the planet (estimated)
2,825+
days on the road (2004-2026)
1,650+
hotel & accommodation stays
40+
cruises taken
13
books & manuscripts
4,612
places visited in Australia (Google Maps)
The record that cannot be replicated
In the entire documented history of global travel, no other pair has visited every country together - beginning with the same first trip and ending with the same final destination. This is not a shared claim. It is theirs alone.
The friendship that confused everyone
Two men. 22 years. Every country in the world. They were called a couple everywhere they went. They shared hostel rooms across six continents — sometimes a single bed when that was the only option. Travelling on their passports came with friction most nationalities never experience: double interrogations, six-month visa waits, doors that closed without explanation. They went anyway.
What they discovered: the deepest human bonds are not defined by blood, romance, or shared nationality — they are defined by shared purpose. That is what 22 years looks like.
22 years — 7 milestones
2004
First trip.
Cyprus & Egypt.
Two young men, one idea.
2008
Caribbean, Balkans,
Southeast Asia.
50+ countries crossed.
2010–2016
North Korea, Iran,
Afghanistan, West Africa.
The impossible list shrinks.
2020
Perth, Australia.
New base.
The world pauses.
2024
Antarctica reached.
Kakadu, Lord Howe,
Tasmania, Kimberley.
Now
3 territories remain:
Niue, Pitcairn, Tokelau.
The finale approaches.
16 Aug 2019
Country 193.
Equatorial Guinea.
World Record certified.
Official Records
Certified. Documented. Independent.
The achievement is not self-reported. It is officially documented in multiple records registries, signed and issued on 16 August 2019.
193
UN — Complete
251
UN+ territories
458
NM score
268
TCC destinations
1,764
KYE locations
DEEP
Verified
NomadMania is the world's leading independent database tracking travellers by country, territory, and depth of visit. Verified by community. 193 UN complete. DARE: 5 extreme destinations confirmed.
NomadMania — independent verification
National Register of Records
"First team of two to visit all countries in tandem"
Zhdanov & Zarubin · 16 August 2019
National Register of Records
"Youngest person to visit all countries"
Alexander Zhdanov · Age 36 · 2019
Book of Records
"Youngest to visit all 193 UN countries"
Alexander Zhdanov · Certificate No. 3233
Original certificates available for verification. The verification process itself took years — photographs and videos are not accepted as proof. What is required is documented evidence: hotel records, bank transactions, transport tickets — accumulated across 22 years and 193 countries.
When Norwegian explorer Gunnar Garfors completed every country, his plane was water-cannoned on the runway in celebration. When a Japanese traveller finished his final country, his name entered school textbooks. An Icelandic man was received on prime-time national television. These are not outliers — in many countries, this is understood as a civilizational achievement.
The country where Mikhail and Alexander were born chose not to acknowledge it. No coverage. No ceremony. The records were certified elsewhere — because elsewhere, the world understood what had been done.
Speaking & Coaching
Mikhail Zarubin — speaker, coach, and the man who figured out how to travel the world without stopping work.
He has visited every country in the world. He built a 4-million-strong audience doing it. And he did it while figuring out, step by step, how remote work and full-time travel can actually coexist — not in theory, but in practice, country by country, year by year.
As a keynote speaker
Mikhail is invited as a guest of honour at events, conferences, and travel industry gatherings worldwide — one of the very few people alive who can speak from direct experience about every culture on Earth. His talks draw on 22 years of travel, dozens of extraordinary encounters, and the hard-won perspective of someone who has genuinely seen the world whole.
Topics include: the psychology of long-term travel, cultural intelligence across 193 countries, sustainable and responsible exploration, and what the world actually looks like when you've seen all of it.
As a coach
Mikhail has helped tens of thousands of people build the kind of life where work and travel coexist. Career Without Borders — is a step-by-step system for building a well-paid remote career from scratch, without existing experience.
His own remote work made it possible to visit every country in the world. Now he shows others that this is not a fantasy, but a practical, achievable plan.
For Production & Development
They began travelling before smartphones existed — before social media, before Google Maps, before the internet was in every pocket. They learned to navigate, communicate, and survive using maps, phrasebooks, and direct human contact. Eye to eye. Heart to heart. That skill is irreplaceable and cannot be learned from a screen.
What "visiting" means for them: arriving is never the goal. Each country received real time — villages, markets, tribal communities, secondary cities, sacred sites. Not airports and hotel lobbies. This is what the archive contains.
Among the ~330 people who have ever visited every country, only a handful began in the era before the internet changed travel. Alexander holds a degree in journalism — graduated with full academic distinction (the highest grade in every subject) from one of the oldest universities in Europe. Mikhail also graduated with top honours. Two straight-A students who chose not to build careers — but to understand the world instead.
Of the 8 billion people alive today, only 2 have seen every country on Earth — together, from the very first trip to the very last. That is the show.
The series no streaming platform has made yet.
"We did not travel to boast. We traveled to collect the pieces of a puzzle called the planet — and to give it away." The books, the series, the museum, the tours — these are one project: assembling the complete picture of what it means to be human on this Earth, and sharing it with everyone who was not there to see it.
Not an adventure show. Not a travelogue. A psychological portrait of obsession, friendship, and what it costs two human beings to spend 22 years crossing every border on Earth.
"What is wrong with these people?"
Neurologists who study compulsive movement say the brains of extreme travellers show measurable differences in dopamine regulation — the same pathways active in addiction. The question medicine cannot yet fully answer: are these people running toward something, or has the road itself become the only thing that makes them feel at rest? Both could be true. Neither is comfortable to watch. Both are riveting.
Iran during sanctions. Saudi Arabia when it was closed. North Korea. Afghanistan. South Sudan. A coup in a country scheduled for the following week. Two men sharing hostel beds across six continents for 22 years — called a couple everywhere they went. 40,000+ direct human encounters. These are not anecdotes. They are the show.
~300 people were born with a particular destiny: to witness the entire human world. Every country. Every culture. Every border. These are the only people alive who have sat with the full spectrum of human civilisation — its wars, its rituals, its sacred places, its grief, its joy. Mikhail and Alexander believe those people carry a responsibility: to share what they saw, and to interpret the world for everyone who couldn't go.
They uncovered the hidden patterns in how people across cultures live, think, and believe — structures only visible once you have seen enough of the world to recognize them. The question the series must answer: are they running toward something, or away from it?
What do you say to someone who has been everywhere? Nothing impresses them. Nothing surprises them. But say the wrong thing about a country they love, and you will feel it immediately. Say "I've been to Paris" and they will tell you where you should have gone instead. Say "I could never do that" and you will see something close to pity cross their face. To gain their trust: go first. Tell them something real. Ask what it was actually like — not the highlights, the actual experience. They read a person in thirty seconds.
And the question the audience asks in episode two: what about love? relationships? sex? The answer is complicated. On the road for 22 years, you meet extraordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. The intensity of shared travel accelerates connection in ways ordinary life rarely does. Both Mikhail and Alexander have their own stories about what the road does to the heart — and neither is simple. That complexity is exactly what makes compelling television.
The pitch
What they bring to camera
22 years of documentary-grade visual archive from all 193 countries · 12 full passports as physical proof · Established on-screen presence across a 4M-follower content career · NomadMania DEEP verified · World record certificates (originals held) · Both available for interviews, screen tests, and development meetings
The finale — ready to film
Three territories remain: Niue · Pitcairn Island · Tokelau. Tokelau has no airport. Pitcairn: supply vessel only. Real stakes. Real completion. Ready to camera.
Format options
Documentary series · Limited psychological travel series · Single feature documentary · Dramatised series with actors (rights holders as exec producers) · All formats open
mike.around.pr@gmail.com
Production enquiries
For screenings, development discussions, and co-production:
One page. Everything a development exec needs.
For Publishers & Literary Agents
Written. Finished. In 2026, we are ready.
The mission behind the books
"We did not travel to boast. We traveled to collect the pieces of a puzzle called the planet — and to give it away."
A tribal elder in Papua New Guinea has a dream for his people that looks almost identical to the dream of a child growing up in a suburb of Chicago. A fisherman in Kiribati smiles the same way as a grandmother in rural Japan when their grandchild takes their first step. A family in West Africa organises their home around the same invisible principles as a family in Patagonia — people who will never meet, who share no language, who have never heard of each other.
The goal of their work is not to describe the world. It is to inspire people who have never left their hometown to understand that the world is worth going toward — and to equip people who are ready to go. They started travelling before the internet changed everything. They know how to be fully present. They know how to connect, eye to eye, without a screen. That skill — genuine human contact — is what the next generation most urgently needs to learn.
For 22 years there was no time to write. There were planes to catch, borders to cross, countries to navigate. But there were always notebooks. Voice memos. Fragments written in hotel rooms at midnight, on ship decks, on trains across the Sahara. The material was accumulating long before the manuscripts were. Now — with the journey complete and the records officially certified — the time to write has arrived. And it has been used.
In 2026, Mikhail and Alexander are actively seeking literary representation and international publishing partners. The manuscripts are complete. They are ready for readers inglish, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and beyond. If you are a literary agent or publisher, we welcome your enquiry.
Mikhail Zarubin
The "Beyond the Horizon" Trilogy
The debut novel — already with a proven readership, ready to find its international audience. Remote Pacific islands where the plane lands once a week. Countries where the guidebooks stop. Border crossings that required months of preparation. War zones navigated without a security team. 51 countries. Every one of them real. The author is not imagining these places — he is writing from memory. Countries featured include: Cyprus · Egypt · Iceland · Sri Lanka · Malta · Gibraltar · Morocco · Caribbean islands · Pacific micro-states · Papua New Guinea · Vanuatu · Solomon Islands · Palau · Micronesia · and remote regions most travellers never reach.
At the heart of the narrative is the quest for the Pearl — a legendary artefact said to grant its possessor the answers to all the world's mysteries, immortality, and absolute happiness. A chance encounter on a plane returning from Cyprus changes the narrator's life completely. Will he overcome countless obstacles, unravel cryptic poems, and defeat an invisible enemy? And is the treasure truly what he has been seeking all along?
Adventure fiction · ~339 pages · English translation rights available · Full manuscript available
Beyond the Horizon
Book 1 of 3 · Adventure Fiction · 51 Countries · ~339 pages · Available in Russian
Exotic countries, remote islands, the most dangerous places on our planet — only a few dare to venture there. But for Mikhail, there are no barriers. The events of this second book span a century, beginning one hundred years ago and continuing to the present day. Readers will once again travel through astonishing countries, witness thrilling adventures, empathise with the characters, and uncover the long-awaited answers. But will they hold the key?
Countries include: Egypt · Iceland · Sri Lanka · Somaliland · Palestine · Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands · Vanuatu · Maldives · North Korea · Mongolia · Svalbard · Iraqi Kurdistan · Oman · Yemen · South Sudan · Central African Republic · and 37 more.
Historical adventure · ~566 pages · ~1,020,000 characters · English translation rights available · Full manuscript available
Beyond the Horizon: The Mystery of the Crown
Book 2 of 3 · Historical Adventure · 54 Countries · ~566 pages · ~1,020,000 characters
The most geographically ambitious volume. A mysterious pearl collector enters the game in Toronto. The chase spans four continents: Prague, Budapest and Vyšehrad · Bermuda and the Sargasso Sea · Perth, Broome, Darwin and the Tiwi Islands · Hong Kong, Macau · Oslo, Norway's fjords · Cairns, Queensland outback, Paronella Park, Cradle Mountain, Tasmania · Rottnest Island, Margaret River · Laos and the Mekong River · Maldives · Barcelona · Geneva. The Bermuda Triangle of Australia — a real oceanic phenomenon — becomes central to the resolution.
Everything assumed turns out to be wrong. A gunshot in a cave of El Dorado gold. A man waking in 1596 Prague, wondering if any of it was real. Every location described is real. The author has been to every single one.
Thriller / Adventure · Full manuscript available · Screen adaptation rights available
Beyond the Horizon: The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle
Book 3 of 3 · Thriller · ~467 pages · ~841,000 characters · English edition available (~276 pages)
Mikhail Zarubin — New Series
Historical Fiction
Late sixteenth century. The era of great geographical discoveries: explorers, kings, the New World, pirates, indigenous tribes, the legendary search for El Dorado. Thomas Klavilha, a young man from Bohemia, finds himself swept into a vortex of events, carrying an ancient map that may lead him home — or destroy everything he knows.
The novel opens with a wedding in present-day Australia that never takes place. Time fractures. What follows moves between 1596 and now, between Bohemia and the South Atlantic, between historical figures and invented ones. Ships, harbours, storms, a cave full of treasure, a gun at point-blank range — and a final line that leaves the reader suspended: "The year on the window was 1596. It had been a dream."
Historical fiction / Adventure · First of a new series · Full manuscript available · Screen rights available
The Story of Thomas of Bohemia
Book 1 · Historical Fiction · ~542 pages · ~976,000 characters · Complete
Mikhail Zarubin
Children's Books
Set in Perth, Australia. A boy named Mike receives an urgent message from the stone giants of Easter Island: the Green Dragon has gone missing just before the Year of the Dragon begins. Without him, the Earth will be left without its guardian. The quest takes him across time and mythology — Chinese zodiac, Easter Island's Moai, Aboriginal sacred wisdom — presented as living knowledge, not folklore.
Children's chapter book · Ages 7–11 · Full manuscript available
Mike and the Quest for the Green Dragon
Children's Chapter Book · ~86 pages · ~156,000 characters · Ages 7–11
A Pacific island boy and the Wise Turtle journey to the stars. Indigenous Pacific and Aboriginal cosmology presented as active wisdom. One of very few children's books to authentically weave these traditions into an accessible adventure.
Children's illustrated adventure · Ages 4–8 · Full manuscript available
Mike and the Big Ocean Adventure (In Search of the Magical Pearl)
Children's Adventure · ~49 pages · ~89,000 characters · Ages 4–8
A warm holiday mystery about belonging, family traditions, and the magic of a child who loves two things equally: his birthday and Christmas. Written directly in English for international markets.
Children's holiday story · Ages 4–8 · Full manuscript available
Mike and the Lost Christmas
Children's Holiday Story · ~26 pages · ~48,000 characters · Written in English
25 illustrated stories: Easter Island · Amazon · Ancient Persia · Japan · Bermuda Triangle · Australia · North Pole · Atlantis · Madagascar · and the constellations. Every destination is real. Every cultural detail is earned by an author who has been there.
Children's illustrated stories · Ages 4–8 · Ready for international co-publication
Tales of Young Travelers
Children's Short Story Collection · 25 Tales · 70 pages
Mike is back — and this time his trusty companion the Wise Turtle goes missing, leaving him to navigate the far corners of the world alone. Along the way he discovers something more important than any destination: what it means to find a true friend, and how much you can learn when the person you rely on most isn't there. A geography book disguised as a treasure map — full of surprising twists, enchanting magic, and one very big secret waiting in the last chapter.
Written directly in English for international young readers. The second book in the Mike's Adventures series — which follows the path of a real traveller through the world's most extraordinary places, told in the voice of someone who has actually been to every one of them.
Children's illustrated adventure · Ages 5–9 · Written in English · Full manuscript available
New Tales of Young Travellers
Children's Adventure · Book 2 · Written in English · Ages 5–9
Joint Project
Photography — All 193 Countries
A complete visual record of 22 years across all 193 UN countries. Every photograph taken in person. Every location real. A large-format book that is also an archive — the visual equivalent of a complete world atlas, but seen through the eyes of the only two people who have been everywhere, together.
Photography / Coffee table book · All 193 countries · Ready for publication · Rights available
The World in Pictures — A Personal Journey Through Every Country
Photography · Large-Format · Ready for Publication
Alexander Zhdanov
Literary Fiction & Non-Fiction
In 2026, the average person spends over seven hours a day staring at screens. AI handles the planning, the booking, the recommendations. Algorithms curate your experiences before you have them. The world has never been more connected — and more people have never felt more lost. This book is the counter-argument.
Travel is not a luxury. It is the last remaining practice that forces you to be fully present — where the Wi-Fi fails, the translation app doesn't understand the dialect, and the only thing that works is looking someone in the eyes. This book is for everyone who has thought about going somewhere real and hasn't left yet. You do not need money. You do not need courage you don't have. You need a direction. This book gives you one.
Born at one edge of the world, now living at the other — in Australia, where summer arrives when everyone else is in winter. A European mind with twenty-two years of evidence. What this book gives you is not a list of places. It shows you how to be present in a world that is designed to make you absent. How to fight loneliness with movement instead of a feed. How to find yourself not by looking inward — but by going outward so far that home becomes visible from the other side.
Non-fiction · Travel philosophy · ~529 pages · Translation rights available · Contact: mike.around.pr@gmail.com
I Visited Every Country in the World — A Practical Philosophy of Travel
Non-Fiction · Travel Philosophy & Practical Guide · ~529 pages · Complete
Know what you want
Why travel? Solo or together? Money. Fear. Dream.
Prepare
First trip. Pack right. Handle the unexpected.
Travel
Follow locals. Go offline. Chernobyl. Syria. North Korea.
Come home
What travel teaches. Fight loneliness. Find yourself by leaving.
It is a guidebook to a way of living.
A man is hunting someone. Tracking him, studying him, learning to imitate him perfectly — planning to take his place. He has laid every trap, prepared every detail. Then he realises the person he has been pursuing, the life he has been trying to steal, is his own. And the faceless figure that pursues him through every dream is not an enemy. It is the version of himself he has been running from.
This is not a novel of action. It is a diary of thought — the interior monologue of someone trying to answer the question every person delays for as long as possible: who are you when no one is watching, and you stop performing for others? Written in the voice of a man who has crossed every external border on Earth and still finds the internal ones the most difficult to pass.
Philosophical fiction · ~410 pages · Translation rights available
Game of Self
PHILOSOPHICAL FICTION · DREAM DIARY · ~410 PAGES · ~738,000 CHARACTERS · BOOK 1 OF 2
A night train from Moscow to St Petersburg during the World Cup. A man with wolf's eyes moves through the carriages — stealing something no security camera can detect. He takes the sound of cities: crystalline objects that contain the soul of a place, its particular resonance, the thing that makes it irreplaceable. Once taken, the city falls silent. Its inhabitants sense the loss but cannot name it.
The territory of this novel is lucid dreams — a landscape that is both geography and psychology, where cities have voices, friendships have physical weight, and the enemy is something that is almost human but has stopped trying to pretend. The sequel to Game of Selfcontinues the question of its predecessor: what is the difference between the life you are living and the life that belongs to you?
Mystical fiction · ~231 pages · Translation rights available
Crystal Cities
MYSTICAL FICTION · LUCID DREAM TERRITORY · ~231 PAGES · ~417,000 CHARACTERS · BOOK 2 OF 2
Somewhere, right now, a government is being replaced by an algorithm. A school curriculum is being rewritten by AI that has never met a child. The digital state is arriving, country by country, with very little noise and almost no resistance. Almost.
Australia is the last significant civilisation genuinely far from everywhere — twelve hours from Asia, twenty from Europe. In this novel, that distance becomes the final argument. Australia is where the resistance begins — not from ideology, but from geography and the stubbornness of people who have always had to solve their own problems. Written by someone who has seen what a village looks like before the screen arrives — and after. Some things the algorithm cannot reach. This is the evidence.
Near-future fiction · ~410 pages · Screen adaptation rights available · Contact: mike.around.pr@gmail.com
Digital Cities
NEAR-FUTURE FICTION · ~410 PAGES · ~738,000 CHARACTERS · COMPLETE
Full manuscripts available for any title upon request. We respond to all serious enquiries.
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The World Collection - Museum Project
Every country in the world. One collection. Ready to exhibit.
Over 22 years, Mikhail and Alexander assembled something that has never existed before: a complete collection of artefacts from every single nation in the world, gathered in person, from the people who made them.
Artefacts & objects
4,000+
Original paintings
200+
Decorative plates
100+
Magnets — every country
70 kg
Banknotes, coins & stamps
3 kg
Countries represented
193
The Museum of Travel — a concept
Walk through several floors of exhibition, moving through the world's most extraordinary places via the objects that came from them. A carved mask from a Papua New Guinea tribe. A woven basket from a Polynesian island of sixty people. A musical instrument from West Africa no European museum has displayed. A tribal textile from Central Asia made by hand in a village without electricity. These are not souvenirs. Other travellers bring keyrings. Mikhail and Alexander brought what no one else was collecting — the rarest, most vivid, most culturally irreplaceable objects they could carry, from every place they visited, across 22 years.
Most people will never visit every country. Many will never leave their own region. But every person carries curiosity about what the world actually looks, sounds, and feels like beyond their own horizon. This collection was built to answer that curiosity — directly, through the objects themselves.
Handmade tribal artefacts from Africa, Polynesia, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea · hand-woven Central Asian textiles · glass and metal art from the Middle East · Pacific Island wood carvings · West African musical instruments · 200+ original paintings · 100+ decorative plates · 70kg of magnets · 3kg of banknotes, coins, and stamps. Every piece labelled. Every piece catalogued. In our collection, everyone will find something that speaks to them — the art lover, the historian, the geographer, the curious child. The exhibition is ready. It is waiting for its home.
Museum concept — St Petersburg project
The collection
Design renders of the original museum project planned for St Petersburg, 2020.
Permanent institutions
Open to discussions about placing the collection as a founding anchor for any institution dedicated to global culture or human diversity.
Permanent institutions
Long-term partnerships (3–5 years), touring exhibitions, temporary shows. Modular - adapts to any space.
A PDF overview of the collection with selected artefacts, categories, origins, and exhibition concept. Available on request
Download the collection catalogue
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Subject: Museum catalogue
Travel with Us
Every country in the world. One collection. Ready to exhibit.
After 22 years of reaching every country on Earth, Mikhail and Alexander now invite small groups to travel with them - exploring destinations they know intimately, from inside out.
Most guided travel follows the same routes, the same stops, the same explanations. Mikhail and Alexander travel differently - they find the places that aren't in guidebooks, sit with local people in ways that take years of experience to learn, and bring a perspective shaped by having seen every culture on the planet. That perspective changes the way you see each new place.
When you travel with two people who have been everywhere, you stop being a tourist. You start actually seeing.

Australia - deep exploration
Since 2020, they have covered almost every corner of Australia in detail - Tasmania, the Kimberley, Queensland's outback, the Flinders Ranges, Lord Howe Island, Kakadu, the Nullarbor. Join a trip to the parts of Australia most Australians have never seen.
International expeditions
From Antarctica to the Amazon, from Namibia to the remote islands of the Pacific - they continue to explore the world's most extraordinary places. Select international trips open to small groups traveling alongside them.
What makes it different
These aren't bus tours. Groups are small - the kind of travel where you're actually talking to the people who run the place, eating where locals eat, staying somewhere with a story. Two decades of experience means knowing exactly where that is.
Who travels with them
People who are serious about seeing the world properly. Photographers, curious travellers, people who've done the standard trips and want something that goes deeper. No particular age, no particular background - just genuine curiosity about the planet.
Recent destinations
Tasmania
Namibia
Peru & Amazon
Kimberley
Karijini
Lord Howe Island
QLD Outback
Antarctica
Vietnam
Japan
Bali
Sydney · Blue Mountains · Melbourne · Great Ocean Road · Twelve Apostles. Not a standard tour. A personal journey through Australia designed by someone who has spent five years discovering its finest places.
What's included: All accommodation (9 nights) · Private chauffeur · Welcome and farewell dinners at award-winning restaurants · All excursions · Personal gifts from Mikhail

Not included: International flights · Travel insurance · Drinks · Personal expenses
Dinner inside the Sydney Opera House at Bennelong · The world's steepest railway at Blue Mountains · Wild kangaroos by golf cart in Point Addis · Koalas, wombats, platypus · The Twelve Apostles at sunset with Victorian prosecco
A personal journey through Australia with Mikhail Zarubin — September 2026
Featured tour — Magnificent Australia · 10 Days
Day 1
Sydney arrival
Day 2
Sydney — Opera, Harbour, Bondi
Day 3
Blue Mountains
Days 4-5
Melbourne
Days 6-9
Great Ocean Road
For pricing, availability, and programme details: mike.around.pr@gmail.com — Subject: Australia Tour September 2026
More destinations — Mikhail Zarubin & Alexander Zhdanov
Premium · 12 days · May 2027
Five Countries of Africa
Cape Town · Namibia · Botswana Chobe safari · Victoria Falls from both sides · Zimbabwe. Jeep and boat safari. Dinner on the Zambezi at sunset. 4★ throughout.
Chobe safari
Victoria Falls
Zambezi dinner
Namibia dunes
mike.around.pr@gmail.com — Subject: Africa Tour 2027
Premium · 11 days · July 2026
Mauritius + Rodrigues Island
Villa near the finest beach. Swimming with sperm whales. Rodrigues Island — tiny, remote, extraordinary. Sea turtles. Chamarel seven-coloured earth. Indian Ocean at its most vivid.
Sperm whales
Rodrigues
Sea turtles
Villa stay
mike.around.pr@gmail.com — Subject: Mauritius Tour
How we travel
We don't do surface travel. Australia alone has taken us through all 8 states and territories — the Kimberley, Karijini, Queensland outback, Tasmania's wild coast, Lord Howe Island, Kakadu, the Nullarbor, the Flinders Ranges, the Barossa and beyond. We know where the good places are because we go looking for them ourselves, year after year, until we find something worth sharing. The same goes for every international destination. If we recommend it, we've been there — properly.
Subject: "Travel with you" — tell us where you want to go.
We already know where we're going through 2027 — Australia in depth, Southeast Asia, Africa, the Pacific, South America and more. If you want to travel properly, in small groups, with people who know the destination from the inside — write to us and we'll send you the full upcoming travel calendar as a PDF.
Send us your name and the destinations you're curious about. We'll reply with the upcoming schedule, dates, and everything you need to decide.
We plan our travels two years ahead. You can join us.
Two years of trips — already planned
Request the travel programme PDF
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Telegram: @mikhailzarubin
Instagram DM: @mike.around.the.world
11 days · November 2026
Japan — Season of Red Maples
Tokyo · Kyoto · Nara · Koyasan monastery night · Osaka. Autumn red maples, TeamLab digital art, traditional kaiseki dinner. Up to 15 participants.
Red maples
Koyasan
TeamLab
Nara deer
⚠ 9–19 Nov SOLD OUT · Available: 20–30 Nov 2026
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11 days · September 2026
Ancient China — Yangtze Cruise
Chongqing · Three Gorges river cruise · Wuhan · Zhangjiajie Avatar mountains · Xi'an Terracotta Army. Full board on the cruise ship. One of the most visually stunning journeys on Earth.
Three Gorges
Avatar mountains
Terracotta Army
mike.around.pr@gmail.com — Subject: China Tour
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Brand Partnerships
Every country in the world. One collection. Ready to exhibit.
Partnership collab — photo 2
Partnership collab — photo 1
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Partnership collab — photo 1
Mikhail Zarubin has built one of the most trusted travel voices in the world — a global community of travellers, and a growing English-speaking audience, as both the YouTube channel and Instagram content are available with English translation, watchable from anywhere in the world. For years, millions of people have followed his journeys in real time, watching him enter countries that most of them will never visit. That accumulated trust translates directly into engagement that paid advertising cannot replicate: 80 million organic views per month, 1.1 million interactions, and a 45–54 age bracket of 12.5% - a rare, high-income segment that luxury travel brands rarely reach through social media.
That is nearly 8 years of their lives spent in accommodation, on planes, on ships, and on roads most people never take. Since settling in Perth in 2020, they have explored almost every corner of Australia - and continued to travel internationally, including Antarctica in 2025.
A lifetime on the road
2,825+
days on the road (2004-2026)
1,650+
hotel & accommodation stops
Instagram
1,900,000
#1 Travel account in the region
80M+ views/month · 1.1M interactions/month
400K–1.2M reach per post · up to 50K likes
180,000
Telegram
1,600,000
TikTok
12.5%
Audience aged 45–54
180,000
Threads
What a partnership includes
Stories
Daily Instagram Stories with active tags and mentions - real-time coverage in live mode.
Post / Reel
Instagram Reel or carousel post with tag, mention, and permanent Highlight.
YouTube
Feature in YouTube series with active link - expanding reach to a separate growing audience.
Content rights
Full access to all photo and video materials for unlimited brand use - no fees, no expiry.
Report
Post-collaboration statistics report with reach, engagement, and media performance data.
Trusted by leading brands
Pan Pacific
Rovos Rail
Hilton
DoubleTree by Hilton
Grand Nikko Tokyo
Parkroyal
1899 Hotel Tokyo
OMO by Hoshino
Oakwood
Peppers
Shadow Play by Peppers
Hotel Grand Chancellor
TeamLab
Aclass Cruises
Paperbark Camp
Sakura Mobile
Tiger Canyon
Yallingup Forest
The Sunseeker
Basq House
Hilton Garden Inn
Crowne Plaza
Holiday Inn
Trusted by leading brands
Pan Pacific
Rovos Rail
Hilton
DoubleTree by Hilton
Grand Nikko Tokyo
Parkroyal
1899 Hotel Tokyo
OMO by Hoshino
Oakwood
Peppers
Shadow Play by Peppers
Hotel Grand Chancellor
TeamLab
Aclass Cruises
Paperbark Camp
Sakura Mobile
Tiger Canyon
Yallingup Forest
The Sunseeker
Basq House
Hilton Garden Inn
"Meeting you was one of my absolute highlights. You are two of only a handful of people in the world who have done what you've done - and having the chance to host you was something I'll never forget."
Rachel - Glenayr Farm, Australia
"We truly appreciate you sharing your experience so extensively. Your support means the world to us."
Gilly Nguyen - Aclass Cruises, Vietnam
"It was a pleasure having you stay - we look forward to working together again."
Adrian - Pan Pacific Hotels, Hanoi
Crowne Plaza
Holiday Inn
Press & Media
The story has already been told. It keeps growing.
metro
"Graduated as a lawyer, lives his life as a traveller."
metro
"Traveller and researcher who has visited all 193 countries."
TEDx
"Knows how to draw inspiration from nature."
Skyscanner
"Avid traveller, ethnographer, and food lover."
Long-form interviews
In-depth interview with both Mikhail and Alexander — NomadMania
nomadmania.com/interview-mikhail-and-alexander
Profile feature on Alexander Zhdanov — Every Country in the World
everycountryintheworld.com/alexanderzhdanov
Mikhail and Alexander are always happy to share what 22 years on the road has taught them. Even in the hardest times - crossing conflict zones, waiting for visas to near-inaccessible countries, sitting with genuine uncertainty about what lies ahead - they found something worth saying. They still do. Every interview draws from a depth of experience that cannot be manufactured. If you want to speak with two people who have genuinely been everywhere and are willing to say what it was actually like: reach out.
mike.around.pr@gmail.com
Media enquiries
Interviews, features, podcast appearances, editorial requests:
Production one-pager — PDF
A single-page overview of the project for production companies and development executives.
Or request by email — Subject: One-pager
Contact
Let's talk.
Alexander Zhdanov & Mikhail Zarubin — Perth, Australia
mike.around.pr@gmail.com
Telegram: @mikhailzarubin
Instagram: @mike.around.the.world
For all enquiries — one address handles everything.
Parcel Collect 10015 80706, 66 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000, Australia
Mikhail Zarubin & Alexander Zhdanov · Perth, Australia
World Record Holders · 193 Countries · 22 Years · 14 Books · 4M+ Followers