Alma Asinobi: 7 Continents in Just 60 Hours!

9 long flights

7 layovers 

7 continents 

All in under 70 hours!

Imagine having a very limited amount of time to travel the whole world. You would have to consider booking reliable flights that won’t leave you waiting at the airport for hours due to sudden delays or canceled flights. You would be tasked with moving around new cities and interacting with people who don’t speak your native language. You would be running on very little sleep… and let’s not even talk about the amount of pressure you’d feel! 

Seems like an impossible task, right? 

Well, for 26-year-old Alma Asinobi, she’s about to make the impossible possible. Starting from the 19th of March 2025, Alma aims to break the Guinness World Record for the fastest traveler by visiting all 7 continents of the world in 60 hours! 

Who is Alma Asinobi?

Image Source: Alma’s Instagram (@almaasinobi)

It’s no secret that traveling solo as a female is hard. Being a woman of colour only adds to the difficulty level but being a woman of colour crossing borders of countries with one of the lowest ranking passports in the world…

Alma Asinobi is a Nigerian travel content creator who doesn’t let all of the above limitations stop her passion. Her love for traveling started in 2020 after a road trip to a country close to Nigeria. The stark difference in culture, dress code, language, and architecture from what she had become accustomed to in Nigeria left her with the burning desire to see more of the world. 

Within the span of a couple of years, Alma has been able to travel to over 30 countries across five different continents using her Nigerian passport. She has made a name for herself as a compelling storyteller with intriguing travel experiences to share. On her social media pages, she highlights her experiences as a woman of color traveling solo. She informs people on everything they need to do to travel to certain countries while also sharing travel tips and insights. 

She founded her own travel agency named ‘Kaijego’. Kaijego, meaning ‘let’s go’ in Igbo, aims to plan and make travel more accessible to everyone, especially people with low-mobility passports. With Kaijego, you can plan group trips or even solo trips abroad seamlessly and effectively. 

An Unplanned Incident in Alma’s Journey 

Image Source: Alma’s Instagram (@almaasinobi)

For months, Alma had taken critical steps to plan each and every part of her journey around the world. Every second matters and so does each flight and layover she chooses. For months she pushed through VISA rejections, and long waiting periods to hear back from embassies while also picking the best timings for flights to ensure she had a somewhat seamless journey. She even visited health experts to ensure her body was in the right shape to embark on her trip. 

But after months of dedicated hard work and planning, a week before her journey, she found out some shocking news. The two Indian travelers, Sujoy Kumar Mitra and Ali Irani, who held the record she wanted to beat at 3 days, 1 hour, 5 minutes, and 4 seconds as of December 2022, were just beaten by an American man named Johnny Cruz Buckingham. Johnny set the new record at  2 days and 16 hours (64 hours!) on February 23rd, 2025. This new adaptation forced Alma to replan and reroute her journey in just one week, no doubt taking the intensity level of her already stressful journey up a notch.

How is She Going to Break the Guinness World Record?  

Image Source: Alma’s Instagram (@almaasinobi)

“I’m starting at the most unpredictable point, which makes the most sense because it’s when the wheels take off that the timer starts,” Alma explained.

Her journey has been mapped out extensively. Every country, airport, and layover has been planned to the T. She begins at the most ‘unpredictable point’ as she said, which is Antarctica. From Antarctica, she will cross through every continent in between until she crosses the finish line all the way to Australia.

Getting from Antarctica to Australia isn’t enough to crown her the title of a champion though. There are rules she has to take into consideration. 

In addition to the obvious rule that she has to visit all seven continents, she must visit each city she lands in– not just the airports. She must then collect evidence that she was actually there! 

She is tasked with documenting each and every single moment of her journey as well. If Alma is able to successfully do all the above and beat Johnny’s time of 64 hours, she will successfully become the Guinness World Record’s latest fastest traveler!

Among famous travelers throughout history like Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Isabella Bird, and the likes, Alma Asinobi’s name will also be written down in history as one of the people who have traveled the whole world. Her challenge is hard but she remains optimistic and enthusiastic.

Follow Alma’s journey around the world on social media. Do you think she’ll be able to accomplish this daunting task using one of the most unfavorable passports in the whole world?