Ninety-four days, 11,762 photos, ending just before the world closed
15 December 2019 - 17 March 2020
Read from 11,762 photo timestamps and 2 logged walks across 8 countries, plus the flight chain through 94 days away from home.
The argument
94 days across Southeast Asia and Oceania, ending 3 days before the WHO declared COVID a pandemic and 5 before Romania closed its airports. 11,762 photos — by far our most-photographed single trip through 2020. Eight countries in two phases: a 35-day Southeast Asia loop (MY → SG → TH → ID) then a 48-day Oceania arc (AU → NZ), bridged by an internal Bali → Sydney flight on 27 January. The structural signature is the 35-day stretch in Australia alone — Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Whitsundays, Sunshine Coast — our longest country-leg through 2020.
Trip shape
MY7d
SG7d
TH13d
ID16d
AU35d
NZ13d
Malaysia (KL)Petronas + Batu Caves
Singaporephoto-densest anchor
ThailandBangkok + Ayutthaya
BaliKuta + Ubud + Tegallalang
AustraliaSydney + east coast + Melb
New ZealandS Island + Fiordland
Pace · photos per day
↑arrive
↑Singapore 433
↑Singapore 474
↑Bangkok 343
↑Ayutthaya 355
↑Penebel 433
↑Tembuku 404
Frame data
Duration
94 days · 93 nights
Hull area
planetary · two hemispheres · ~50,000 flight km
Countries
8 raw · 6 effective (MY · SG · TH · ID · AU · NZ ≥720 each)
Mar 7–10 · Lake Tekapo + Aoraki + Southland · ~751 · Mar 8-9 peak (212 + 228)
Mar 11–12 · Dunedin + Otago · 118+ photos · 2.2 km / 148 m walk (Baldwin Street or Otago Peninsula)
Mar 13 · drive to Te Anau / Manapouri · 118
Mar 14 · ★ Doubtful Sound boat tour · 196 · Lake Manapouri → Wilmot Pass → fjord
Mar 15–16 · transit + return chain · 20 + 12
Mar 16–17 · ✈ SG + TR layovers home · 17 photos
Cross-leg memory
Facts visible only at trip scale.
Pre-pandemic margin
Trip ends Mar 17 · WHO declares pandemic Mar 11 · RO closes airports Mar 22
Longest country leg
Australia 35 days · 4,119 photos (35% of trip)
Photo-densest anchor
Singapore · 1,562 photos in 7 days (223/day)
Three-peak signature
Dec 24 SG 474 · Jan 21 Bali 433 · Feb 28-29 AU 326 + 326
Anchor reuse
none — every base visited once
Walking unrecorded
9.1 km logged across 94 days — vast underrecording
Hemisphere split
~60 of 94 nights Southern (from Jan 11 Bali onward)
Off-path · per zone
Kuala Lumpur~5%top-decile Asian city
Singapore~5%top-decile
Bangkok~5%top-decile
Ayutthaya~15%UNESCO, well-photographed
Bali Tegallalang / Ubud~5%Instagram-canonical
Sydney + Melbourne~5%AU canonicals
Whitsundays~20%boat-tour territory, less dense
NZ Tekapo / Fiordland~5%South Island peaks
NZ Dunedin~30%less-touristed by international standards
Comprehensive canonical-Asia-and-Oceania tour — top-decile destinations chosen at every leg. ~10% trip-average reflects sustained anchor stays at well-known cities + Dunedin as the only meaningful off-path note. The trip’s value is in duration and breadth, not in finding hidden coords. The Doubtful-over-Milford choice in NZ Leg 6 is the closest thing to an off-path move — and a 2026 Oceania-trip parallel.
Hike highlights
#
Day
Where
km
ascent
Likely identity
01
26 Dec
Singapore · MacRitchie
6.96
165 m
TreeTop Walk circuit
02
12 Mar
Dunedin · Otago
2.2
148 m
likely Baldwin Street or Peninsula walk
Negative space
absentTasmaniaThe 35-day Australia leg covers Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Whitsundays, Noosa — but not Tasmania despite the trip’s length. Tasmania becomes a 2026 Oceania trip target instead.
absentNZ North IslandWellington, Auckland, Rotorua — all unvisited. The NZ leg is South Island only. North Island also waits for 2026.
absentCambodia / Vietnam / LaosIndochina extensions of the SE Asia phase — not visited. The trip went TH → Bali rather than overland SE Asia.
absentHong Kong / JapanAsia’s other major air hubs — not visited.
absentGreat Barrier Reef interior dive sitesWhitsundays touched but Cairns / GBR northern dive sites not in the data.
absentUluru / Red CentreInland Australia not visited. The trip stayed coastal.
absentMilford SoundCoord-checked: 0 photos. The user took Doubtful Sound instead — Fiordland’s deeper, less-trafficked alternative.
A coastal Australia + East-Asia capital cities + South-Island NZ itinerary — comprehensive within its self-defined scope but deliberately avoiding inland and cultural-deep extensions. The Tasmania + NZ North Island absences become 2026 Oceania trip targets — our trips have internal continuity across years.
Numbers
Single-day peak
474 photos · Dec 24 · Singapore
Trip total
11,762 photos (our record through 2020)
Photos / day average
125
Longest country anchor
Australia 35 days · 4,119 photos
Doubtful Sound day
Mar 14 · 196 photos · Lake Manapouri → Wilmot Pass
First photo (away)
2019-12-15 · Saudi Arabia / Turkey layover transit
Singapore is proof that people of all races, religions, and cultures can live together in harmony, respecting each other and creating a prosperous environment.
The city is what made Singapore famous, but there are a lot of other beautiful things to do for physically active people that want to take exploration further.
