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EU citizens don't need passport to enter Norway so svalbard to reunion is possible for all eu citizens

Did Apollo astronauts carry a passport to the moon? If not then... there’s your answer.

actually because of the coronavirus outbreak, there was a flight from Papeete (French Polynesia) to Metropolitan France and this was the longest domestic flight of the world

Technically, thanks to the EU Schengen zone you could start in any EU country, preferably as far away from France as possible, drive from there to Paris, then go on a flight to réunion

U can go pretty far into space

So walking around in a circle in a field doesn't count?

Their is a even better one :) If you are a resident of the Pitcairn Island ( a small British territory with 50 residents), you can legally travel to New Zealand to seek medical treatment without a proper British passport. You will arrive at Auckland, New Zealand which also marks the beginning of your journey, after your treatment you can go back to Pitcairn but you can also get on a boat and travel all the way to Gibraltar, UK. Gibraltar is also a British territory besides the Mediterranean Sea but due to it’s geographical advantages it’s actually the opposite of Auckland, New Zealand, which means you can travel over 20,000 kilometers with out a passport!

3:43 one of the most interesting things in the video is that the easternmost point in the “US” and the westernmost point in the “US” (via travel not longitude) are both named Point Udall. That’s really neat.

**swims halfway out to sea** _yeah gotta swim back now_

I love how he called the UN document “one of these bad boys”

Yeah yeah, but you will NEVER enter great nation of Arstotzka without passport and required papers!

HAI: Forgets his KZfaq password... next day... HAI: This video was made possible by dashlane.

“If you’re an EU citizen” *cries in brexit*

After a quick google search, I learnt several things that contradict the video : -The Air France Flight from Paris CDG to Tahiti Faa does indeed stop in the US, but the passengers don't actually exit the plane while it's refueling and don't need a passport. -There are domestic flights from Tahiti to New Caledonia. -EU citizens don't need a passport to go to another country So you could technically fly from the Canary islands to Spain. Then Fly from there to Paris. Then use that one special Flight from Paris to Tahiti. Then from Tahiti to New Caledonia and drive to the furthest point of New Caledonia. All of that without needing a passport. The total length of the trip from Morro Jarble, Canary Islands, Spain to Kuto, New Caledonia, France is actually 19 390 km (12 050 mi) making it even longer than the Guam, Puerto-Rico trip

St Pierre & Miquelon is part of France, just of the coast of Newfoundland, that has a non-stop flight to Paris (they used to have to fly through Montreal, but their runway has been extended so now there's direct flights) - no passports needed for French/EU citizens, so it's possible to fly from St. Pierre to Reunion, which are 13,312km apart, without a passport. There is also a direct flight from Paris to Papeete (French Polynesia) with a stop in Vancouver. Other airlines do this route via San Francisco or LA, and the Americans, being American, insisted on full immigration checks (even for EU citizens), but wether or not Canada does, I don't know. On the St. Pierre route when that required a full-blown connection in Montreal with a change of planes, they had special arrangements for transferring passengers allowing them to avoid any Canadian immigration/customs stuff, so it'd be nice if they've extended the same courtesy to the Paris-Vancouver-Papeete flights. If so that's 15,715km without a passport!

Thanks for your bright and breezy videos during these tough times.

Now HAI’s hearting comments? I’ve seen it all.

With the cues at the TSA? *Maybe a few meters*

I’m from Guam I’m so happy HAI finally mentioned us in one of his videos 🙏🏿🤧

Finally my country (Bermuda) got mentioned on an HAI or Wendover!!

Not mentioning Schengen at all...grrr.

"The UK will need to get used to people doing that pretty soon anyways." What's the French equivalent for "oh snap"?

Could you string something together with a flight from somewhere in the French Caribbean or Guyana to Metropolitan France to reunion? The flight distance is probably longer but I don't know if the straight line distance is.

Its always a good day when half as interesting uploads

I hope Elon gets you those tickets

"The way you tell a story through your videos is captivating. Keep up the amazing work!"

Whangarei is pronounced with an "F" at the beginning btw

From Ponta Delgada (PDL) in the Azores -> Lisbon (LIS) -> Paris (CDG) -> Réunion (RUN) is 7624 miles/12271 kilometers. The travel from the Azores (part of Portugal) via Lisbon to Paris is within the Schengen Area. EU citizens do not need to show a national ID card or passport when travelling in this border-free area, though documents may be requested. Réunion is an overseas department and region of France that is also an outermost region of the EU. This means an EU national can use an national ID card for travel from Paris, for example. It also means any EU citizen can not only travel to but also RESIDE in any/all of those places for an unlimited period.

*_Elon Musk is typing..._*

this vid definitely deserves a thumbs up!

While not as far, you can go through most o South America with your regular ID if you are from a Mercosul contry. The two extremes of South America are from Cape Froward (South, Chile) to Punta Gallinas (North, Colombia), both countries are part of Mercosul, so as a Brazilian I can go there without a passport, that's 7373 km (4582 miles).

Just FYI Whangarei is pronounced fungarei. It’s a Maori word. Beautiful place by the way if anyone is visiting New Zealand

Yay! New Zealand got noticed! The 'Wh' in Whangarei is pronounced with a 'f' sound, so it's more like Fangarei. Just a heads up for when it definitely comes up again. Source: I live there.

A close runner up has to be British citizens visiting the Falklands. at just over 8000 miles.

The thing about Guam is you would need to be careful when scheduling your flight. Though there are a few flights direct from Hawaii, most flights connect through Japan, in which case you would need a passport (unless traveling on military orders, in which case we have an agreement with Japan).

You can travel everywhere without a passport if you are fast enough

Citizens from South American countries don't need a passport to travel to any other country in South America. This excludes Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. That means that you can travel from Puerto Williams, Chile to Tuputs, Colombia (7488 km) without a Passport, if you have a South American ID.

this guy's add transitions are on point

You could travel from Paris via one of the French Caribbean possessions to Tahiti. Just over 17,000km (10565 miles) of travel.

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The “Wh” in Whangarei is pronounced as an “F”. Just letting ya know ❤️

There are direct flights from Réunion to New Caledonia, so you can do the Urepel - Vao route with a layover in Réunion while still always staying in France.

Good video. Watching in vr currently.

4:26 Clean your monitor, you filthy animal!

registering to dashlane because I support my favorite creator!!! awesome video!

In the Summer of 2018 there was a seasonal weekly flight between Paris and Saint-Pierre (off Canada's Atlantic coast) so one could get from Réunion to Saint-Pierre without needing a passport. I guess that comes close. But normally you need to go through Canada.

If you're from one of the nordic countries, you can fly to Greenland with only some picture ID. E.g. your drivers licence. As for example a Dane, you can thus fly from Réunion to Paris, from Paris to Copenhagen and from Copenhagen to Kangerlussuaq and from Kangerlussuaq to Qaanaq. Which has got to be the longest distance.

A few years ago, my friend and I both tried to see what's the two longest distances between the earth and even tried to use inverted maps that show which two points are directly opposite one another. The closest we got was Christchurch to Madrid, and today, we finally got our answer. Whangarei to Tangier. Thank you :)

I love it vids, there so random and interesting, Each and every video makes my day :) @Half As Interesting

My grandma, great grandma and great grandpa sailed from Australia to here before my mom was born.

Point udall in st. Croix was beautiful. We had a rental house about 10 minutes from there. I’d never seen a sunrise over the ocean before

Oí. I'm from St Croix. Was not expecting to see my home when I opened this video. Haha 🇻🇮🇻🇮🇻🇮

If you are a Chinese Citizen who travels in Santiago, Chile, you could technically walk in to a Chinese embassy and tell them that you passport is stolen and your visa in Chile is about to be expired. They would take you back to China and then you can fly to Xian, China with your Chinese identity card. Which allows you to travel 19,950 KM without a passport! 👌🏻 Mission accomplished! 😃

If you're South American (*w/ some exceptions) the further you can go is 8500 km, from Isla de Pascua (IPC) to Fernando de Noronha (FEN)

I love it when he mentions NZ. Also love the attempt at pronouncing Whangarei, try saying it like this "Funga rei" 🙂👍

That smooth transition though

My bathroom

2019: how far can you travel without a passport 2020: hold my coronavirus

You can go infinite kilometers by 1) going to space or 2) going around a roundabout infinitely

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I spitted out my drink by " eel de France "

technically, you can also travel from anywhere in canada (i believe) to st pierre et miquelon (france) without a passport due to a deal canada has with the island. all youd need is a piece of ID, maybe a birth certificate as well but usually your driver’s license is good enough

Got me goosebumps when u mentioned tangier Morocco 😂. Watching this video in Tangier at 1:20 am🌝

What about traveling from Svalbard to Reunion as a Schengen citizen(Svalbard is technically outside the Schengen area though), or Kirkenes,Norway or something how long would that be, as there is no passport requirements inside Schengen.

I want that half as interesting shirt because I really like your logo sam

As a citizen of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy or Portugal you can enter Egypt with your national ID card and two biometric photos for a 28 days stay. You then visit the area around the Toshka lakes and as a EU citizen hop on a flight back to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, then take a direct flight (only with technical stop at LAX) of Air France to Fa'a'ā International Airport, Papeete French Polynesia (still EU) and take a connecting flight to Tubuai - Mataura Airport, which is literally on the other side of the earth from the Toshka lakes with a distance of 20.021,37 km. There is hardly any way to beat that.

With my ID and my car, I traveled back in 2005 from Athens, Greece and through Italy, France, Spain, Gibraltar, Portugal, Andorra, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Danemark, Sweden till Norway.. Up to 11000 km It was a great trip!!!

A vid on how Lesotho has come to be? A country inside a country! I know you've talked about enclaves before, but it'd be (half) interesting!

You could extend the reunion one a bit by starting in northern Scotland-IIRC you can go from there to France with just ID. Of course, not nonstop.

technically, if you where a citizen of any country that's part of the mercosur, you can walk from ushuaia in argentina to the northest part of brazil, even passing through paraguay, bolivia and uruguay if you wish. You only need your citizen id (that is also a mercosur id) without the need of a passport

Do the same question by car please. I assume it would be driving all the way across Canada?

I mean, that’s only if you don’t break the law

Hi. Thanks for doing what you do.

Last time I was at the USVI you do need a passport to enter the US again, but strangely you don’t need one to enter the USVI from the USA, just the other way you do need it.

In the US, Canada, and Mexico, we have something called a "Nexus Card" which is part of the Trusted Traveler Programs. They're basically passports in a card that you don't need a passport to get. It's a travel document, much like a passport, that's only usable (as far as I know) in those three countries. I have never owned a passport in my life, but I have a Nexus Card. With that card, I can travel the "US Virgin Islands to Guam" distance without US citizenship (Canadians get visa-free entry to the US), and there may even be a longer route that I haven't thought of.

I say réunion instead of reunion because I’m cultured

An honourable mention: London to the british overseas territory of Pitcairn is 14,700km directly

As a Michigander you can get an Enhanced License which allows passage by land to and from Canada without a passport. That may make for some interesting distance possibilities.

Very simple. Find a place that is opposite the open sea and is in the same country as a port. Then travel to that port, get on a ship you either hired or bought, and then travel halfway around the earth. Done, maximum possible distance travelled. Bonus points for getting to a tiny island so you can get off your ship. Also, there are plenty of international airports where you only need a passport to leave the secure area, not to get off the plane.

You can travel between Mercosur countries with only a ID card

2:34 but why is it going from urepal, shouldn’t it go from the north or the tip of Brittany

2:55 You forgot the Loyalty Islands and added some islands from Vanuatu. But nice video !

As you said Urepel to Vao is the longest if you connect from Reunion or one of the French Carribean Island. You never leave France.

The 'wh-' is Whangarei is pronounced with 'f' in Te Reo, otherwise wonderful vid HAI!

Anything is possible when you have a stand.

This vid puts the "Fun" in Whangerei

Flying Saint-Pierre to Paris to Reunion to Port-aux-Français in French Southern Lands is possible without a passport and those places are 16,000 km apart. The only problem with that is for the last leg, there are no commercial flights so it may be tricky to get one. You'll probably need to rent a plane.

3:21 Oh cool, I've made the flight from Paris to Réunion. But the difference is I'm from the UK lol.

I FOUND A LONGER DIDTANCE From Guadalupe, France you can go to Paris or anywhere in the EU, from there you can go to reunion, if you go to both tips you'll have traveled 13500km without pasport Edit I read miles and wrote km, those damn units

This was twice as interesting

If you have government clearance (as opposed to a passport) I have to imagine that there is a way to travel entirely via US locations and transportation from the north coast of Alaska to McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

What about from one end of Russia to another

"Eel De France" xD

Air Tahiti Nui just operated a one-off nonstop from Papeete (in French Polynesia) to Paris (in metropolitan France)

Point Udall Guam is actually located on U.S. Naval Base Guam, and anyone without a military ID or base access would be hard pressed to get there. But a few miles off your calculation of distance to anywhere else in Guam doesn't disqualify as the likely farthest place you could travel to or from without a passport. On a side note I do believe there is some sort of tour you can schedule and if I am not mistaken Guam locals do have some rights to places such as these. I have saw plenty of people I assumed were locals out there. Point Udall and the Spanish Steps is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been...and in fact it was without a passport.

Just become the Queen of England and go anywhere you want

France, or the republic where the sun never sets

Svalbard to Bouvetøya is still further. Bouvetøya is an Island in the middle of nowhere in the sea around Antarctica controlled by Norway. Plus you don’t even need a passport to get into Svalbard.

Norway has Bouvet Island in the Southern Ocean which is over 15000km away from the tip of Svalbard and they also have Peter 1 island which is over 17800km away from svalbard.