When you’ve travelled to all 197 countries, slept in every climate, crossed borders during uprisings and documented a decade of constant movement, you earn the right to have opinions about the places that stay with you, and the ones you’d never return to. For YouTuber and travel vlogger Drew Binsky, who has logged repeat trips across continents, one city stood out for all the wrong reasons.
A career built on seeing the world up close
Drew Goldberg, known globally as Drew Binsky, is part of a small circle of travellers who have visited every country on the map. His YouTube channel has followed him through moments of joy, fear and cultural immersion, from describing the Philippines as having “everything you could want in one country” to navigating regions where he said he felt “very unsafe”, citing Libya, Haiti, Afghanistan, Guinea and Somalia as particularly difficult destinations. In Europe alone, he says he has visited most nations more than three times, eventually assembling continent-wide rankings of his favourite and least favourite places. His list shifted constantly as new experiences reshaped his views, but one city remained firmly anchored at the bottom.
Conakry : “By far my least favourite place in the world”
Binsky’s least favourite city, across all 197 countries, is Conakry, the capital of Guinea, a stop he describes as chaotic, tense and deeply uncomfortable. According to Drew, the problems began almost immediately. “We’ve been walking around for about 10 minutes we’ve already been stopped by two policemen,” he said, recalling his first moments in the city.
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He explained that another officer told him and his team to get into a car, adding: “The whole city is insane. Yeah this is by far of my least favourite places in the world.” His visit coincided with a coup, and he described scenes of armed police “lined up on the streets with big shield and bulletproof vests like war was about to break out.” What followed, he said, was a series of checkpoints, an officer who “ratted us out”, and a sense of being watched everywhere he went. Beyond security issues, he found the city “boring”, with “nothing to do”, and described a pervasive smell, saying the city “smelt like trash.” He added that locals were unfriendly, claiming he was kicked out of a restaurant when he tried to sit and eat.
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“I found nothing going on in the capital of Guinea. And it’s probably a place that I will never visit again,” he said, noting that the only thing he could recommend was a mosque, where he was the sole visitor during his entire time in Conakry. Conakry wasn’t the only difficult stop. He placed N’Djamena, Chad, in second place. Drew said he was once caught in a police chase after unknowingly riding a stolen motorbike taxi, then later “literally attacked” when he photographed a child without permission — a man even pulled a knife before a friend intervened. He described the city as unbearably dusty and hot, though he still hopes to give Chad another chance.
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In third place was Delhi, a city he emphasised he dislikes, not a country he doesn’t. Drew said he “loved India” and thinks it has everything, almost like a continent in itself, but Delhi was overwhelming for him, from the pollution to the traffic, and the constant urge to leave the moment he arrived.
