A viral video featuring Bengaluru-born musician and traveller Benny Prasad has drawn attention to an unusual record: a journey that took him to 245 countries, including Antarctica.
The clip shows Prasad flipping through 16 passports, each packed with stamps and visas from years of travel around the world. For many viewers, the sheer number of passports was striking on its own. For others, it was the reminder that this was not just a holiday trail, but a long, carefully planned global journey.
What the video shows
The video was shared on the Instagram page Most Traveled People and quickly began making the rounds online.
It opens with the line, “This man needed 16 passports to visit every country on Earth.” In the clip, Prasad says he is from India and says he has been to every country in the shortest time, completing the journey in six years, six months and 22 days.
He adds that the total includes 245 nations, along with Antarctica, covering both sovereign and dependent territories. As he speaks, he goes through passport after passport, with pages filled with dense rows of stamps and visas. Some of the older pages have turned yellow with age.
