Famous travelers and explorers

People began to travel ages ago. The very first travellers were explorers who went on trips to find wealth, fame or something else.

Their journeys were very dangerous-but still people keep on going to the unknown lands.

Nowadays it is not as dangerous and much more convenient. Do you want to go somewhere? Hundreds of companies are there to help you. They will take care about your tickets and make all the reservations needed.

When it comes to famous travellers and explorers, things ain’t what they used to be. Back when travelling was in its infancy, the most famous explorers were those who danced with danger, made amazing discoveries and introduced the world to new cultures. These days we have to put up with over-enthusiastic travel channel wannabes and fat blokes who travel the world eating stuff

Christina Dodwell was born in Nigeria and has always loved travelling. She has been a traveller and travel writer since her mid-twenties. She has made journeys by horse around Africa, New Guinea and Turkey.

She has also travelled by canoe, dog sledge and microlight in China, Kamchatka and West Africa, though she hasn't been to the Poles.

Christina once spent time with cannibals but doesn't worry about danger. She never shows fear and when she thinks there could be trouble, she says, 'My husband is a policeman. He's waiting for me in the next village.'

Christina lives with her husband on a farm surrounded by horses and cattle. She works for a charity that she set up to help the Third World and she often makes TV and radio programmes. She is now working on a programme for BBC radio about indigenous culture in Ethiopia. Her books have been translated into several languages.

Benedict Allen is an experienced explorer who has visited remote natural environments all over the world. He has lived with the Amazon Indians, with a tribe in New Guinea and with Aborigines in Australia. He has crossed the Amazon forest with no map or compass, walked across the mountains of New Guinea and canoed from New Guinea to Australia. He has also made journeys across the Gobi and Namib deserts on foot and by camel and trekked across the Arctic. He has been lost in the jungle more than once and survived by copying the local tribes and eating plants.

Benedict doesn't like travelling with people and he usually makes films of his journeys without a film crew. He doesn't get lonely because he makes friends wherever he goes, even of his camels! He also talks to his video camera.

'It's getting hot out here. Hotter than I've ever been,' he said on his trip in Namibia when temperatures reached 50°C.

Benedict has worked for the BBC for years and has made several television series. He has also written nine books. His TV programmes and books have made him very popular in the UK. He isn't travelling at the moment but is promoting his latest book, Icedogs, about a 1,000-mile trek through Siberia.

Ibn Battuta

The 21-year-old Moroccan left home on a pilgrimage to Mecca in the 14th century and didn’t return home for more than 20 years. He took in three continents and major cities such as Constantinople, Baghdad, Jerusalem and Hangzhou, writing about it in his book Rihla (Journey). At the end of his trip, he had visited more than 40 countries

Christopher Columbus

Columbus was the first authentically known travelers crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the subtropical and tropical belt of the northern hemisphere and the first European to go to the Caribbean. He opened and laid the foundation for the study of South and Central America, including the continental part and the surrounding archipelagos - Greater Antilles (Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica and Puerto Rico), the Lesser Antilles (from Dominica to the Virgin Islands and Trinidad) and the Bahamas (Central part).

Michael Palin

This might seem a little left field but few people have contributed as much to modern travel as Palin. One of the few travellers worth watching on the telly at the moment, his effortless blend of intelligence, charm and wit provide a refreshing change to the cookie-cutter travel shows on U.S. cable networks. The ex-Monty Python star has got around since becoming a professional traveller when he tried to faithfully recreate the journey in 80 Days Around The World in 1988. He’s taken epic trips to the Sahara, the Himalayas, from Pole to Pole and followed in the footsteps of nomadic writer Ernest Hemingway, showing no signs of slowing down despite heading into his seventh decade.

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