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Author Mette Ehlers Mikkelsen

Mette Ehlers Mikkelsen is the Danish woman who has traveled to the most countries. She wants to visit them all and has always brought home great experiences, even from the world's least visited countries, where it is more often the meetings with the locals than the actual attractions.

Mette is among the very few women in the world who aim to travel to all the countries of the world and actually do so. Only approx. 300 have visited all the countries of the world. In comparison, approx. 600 people have been in the room. Approx. 5.000 have climbed Mount Everest, and there are even more who have done it without oxygen than there are travelers who have visited all the countries of the world. Of the 300, only 10% are women, and of those only 4 have been mothers. When Mette travels so much with three children, it is not just in Denmark, it is unique, but globally.

Mette only needs to visit North Korea to have visited all the countries of the world. She has visited the border country between North and South Korea together with the children in the demilitarized zone. But even if the Guinness Book of Records approves it as a visit, she wants to experience the country properly, as she has with all other countries.

The children have always traveled with them. Lærke has traveled to 123 countries, while Ella and Nicolai have visited 85-90 countries. They have traveled with them since they were very small.
Nicolai and Lærke traveled with us on an 8-month round-the-world trip when they were 3-5 years old. Thus, the journeys are part of their lifestyle and identity. The journeys have developed in step with the children. The trips are customized so that all participants enjoyed it.