49 · Visas, safety, money, and culture — observations accumulated per country.
Harry's observations from a week under Taliban rule — safety with a guide, filming rules, extraordinary hospitality, and life under restrictions.
The continent nobody owns — three days across the Drake Passage to reach it, no fishing or whaling allowed, 5-metre rules around the penguins, and boots disinfected between every landing.
Harry's only Argentine stop is Ushuaia at the very bottom of it — the departure port for Antarctica, where the Falklands are a war memorial and an Englishman keeps his mouth shut.
Harry's observations from his 2023 Bangladesh series — the world's densest city, a garment industry that clothes the West, and hospitality he ranks against Pakistan's.
Harry's Brazil is two weeks of Rio Carnival — a country everyone warned him about that turns out to be card-only beaches, no English at all, and the most uninhibited fortnight he has seen anywhere.
Harry's observations from Traoré's Burkina Faso — filming bans and checkpoints, gold-driven economy, Sankara's legacy, and warm, proud people.
Harry's one day in Cameroon is election day — a 92-year-old president returned after 43 years in power, live ammunition instead of tear gas, and the most hospitable strangers of the trip an hour before the worst of it.
Harry's observations from China — Alipay-only payments, blocked Western internet, marriage markets, surveillance locals defend, and infrastructure he rates ahead of the West's.
Harry's observations from a three-week Colombian trip — Cartagena's walled city, the Caribbean coast, Medellín, and a country he keeps calling one of the cheapest he has been to.
The self-described scam capital of the world, tested — relentless selling that never takes no for an answer, government-fixed camel prices at the pyramids, and strangers who chase Harry down to return his dropped phone.
Harry's observations from the "North Korea of Africa" — heavy state control and no internet, yet the safest, calmest streets of his fifteen African countries.
Harry's 2025 journey north from Addis Ababa into Tigray — 80 tribes and 80 languages, the best coffee he has drunk, khat, and a civil war that killed 600,000 people with almost no coverage.
The Fiji nobody films — a capital with no tourists in it, kava drunk communally for $5 a basin, a third of the population descended from imported Indian labourers, and a Union Jack still on the flag.
Harry's observations from India — Holi in Delhi, street-food stalls, and the mix of overwhelming welcome and constant attention foreigners attract.
Harry's observations from the country he lives in — Jakarta's MRT and skyline, street food he rates above the restaurants, a fake-goods economy sold openly, and Bali's communal water system.
Four hours of airport questioning to get in, then a country where beach life and war infrastructure occupy the same streets — and the first place Harry says he has been able to ask anything he likes on camera.
Harry's observations from Japan — the rent-a-girlfriend industry, mask etiquette, privacy culture, and food.
Harry's observations from his Jordan vlog series — the Jordan Pass, Petra, Bedouin hospitality, and local food.
Harry's only visit so far is to the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone — a Chinese-run enclave on the Mekong where the currency, the language and the law are not Laotian.
Harry's observations from Lebanon — the dual-rate currency chaos, Armenian-Lebanese food, and the seaside charm of Batroun.
A mountain kingdom entirely surrounded by South Africa that was never colonised — donkeys instead of roads, subsistence farming, and the country Harry calls his favourite in Africa.
A country founded by freed American slaves that reproduced the system it escaped — a civil war that killed a quarter of a million people, and warlords who are still alive and living openly.
An island everyone has heard of and almost nobody visits — Asian and African heritage side by side, 80% endemic wildlife, vast natural resources, and 75% of people living in poverty.
One day across the border in Tijuana — cheap pharmacies serving Americans, cartel violence aimed at other cartels, taxi drivers who hand out life advice, and $2 tacos at the tourist price.
One day in Casablanca on a layover — sellers Harry rates as the best hagglers he has met, French spoken as widely as Arabic, football mania, and the hammam he calls the best he has had.
A Portuguese colony that became a communist state overnight and then fought a 16-year proxy war — the only flag in the world with a modern rifle on it, and a capital nobody shouts at Harry for filming in.
A country in civil war with twenty tourists a day — a closed currency you can't buy abroad, a black market rate that moves daily, a midnight curfew that strands taxi drivers, and a capital Harry found entirely safe.
Once the richest country per capita on earth, now 80% stripped bare — a 21 km² island you can circle in half an hour, with a car graveyard, a derelict phosphate works and an Australian detention camp that is still open.
Harry's observations from his 2023 Nepal series — Kathmandu's Newari, Tibetan and Thakali kitchens, Buddhist and Hindu quarters side by side, and dal bhat every day.
Harry's observations from a 2024 Nigeria trip — the country he found most unfairly labelled, where asking a foreigner for money is routine and the welcome is real anyway.
Entered as a marathon runner rather than a tourist, because tourism was still closed — a guided trip where everything is arranged and nothing is unattended, except the 42 km of the race itself.
Harry's observations from his 40+ video Pakistan series — safety, hospitality, food, alcohol rules, and the mountainous north.
Harry's observations from the West Bank — Oslo zones, village gates, green and blue ID cards and the three permits, collapsed tourism and work, and overwhelming hospitality.
The world's most linguistically diverse country, from the highland tribes to the capital — betel nut, kinship as address, tough logistics, and a dangerous reputation Harry tests in one and confirms in part.
Harry's observations from the Philippines — one of his favourite countries, with warm people and typhoon-hit coastal towns, held back for him only by its infrastructure.
Harry's observations from sanctioned Russia — FSB border interrogations, cash-only life for foreigners, jammed GPS, banya culture, and unexpected warmth.
A country that only started issuing tourist visas in 2019, assessed on exactly that basis — modern cities, warm people, no English, no Visa or Mastercard in places, and things Harry says stay behind the curtain.
Why the country is broken rather than whether it is safe — colonial borders drawn across clans, a dictatorship, a civil war, al-Shabaab, and a verdict Harry deliberately refuses to round off.
Apartheid's afterlife read off a single square mile — extreme inequality, a state that can't keep the lights on, 9,000 private security firms filling the gap, and beautiful neighbourhoods one street away from ruined ones.
The beauty capital, priced — what grooming and skincare actually cost, why the barbers are women, and the practical trap that Google Maps doesn't work here.
The world's youngest country, where filming costs $1,000 in permits and still gets you stopped — oil that can't be refined, banknotes that top out at 1,000, and a distrust of cameras Harry traces to the wars.
Buddhism, marriage and the price of being a foreigner, plus the practical shape of a country crossed by taxi and train — cheap food that is spicier than he expected, cricket as a way into any conversation, and wild elephants on the roads.
Harry's observations from Syria months after the fall of the Assad government — a land border with no visa, dollars over a collapsed currency, sanctions that block even a SIM card, and a country solo travellers can enter for the first time in his lifetime.
Harry's coverage so far is a day in Bangkok — Muay Thai as the thing to actually do, the visibility of transgender women in Thai life, and a local's advice on what tourists get wrong.
Harry's observations from Turkey — coffee brewed in hot sand, the world's most thorough barbers, hammams running since the 1700s, and a country that drinks more tea per head than anywhere else.
The least visited country on earth — nine atolls two metres above the sea, an economy running on the .tv domain, a prison with open gates, and a prime minister who puts a date on when half the land goes under.
Harry's observations from a three-week 2024 trip, Hawaii to New York, filmed against an election year — friendly people, extreme cost of living, and homelessness he keeps returning to.
Northern Vietnam by rented motorbike — 60 million bikes, expressways that ban them, hospitality that refuses payment at every stop, and a border with China you cannot cross without a visa.
The Middle East's poorest country, in the middle of the world's worst humanitarian crisis — mud skyscrapers five centuries old, an open gun market, government-mandated armed escorts, and three hours of electricity at a time.
