Hi Everyone,

This month, I'm working from South East Asia - one of my favorite regions in the world.  🇱🇦 Laos, 🇲🇲 Myanmar & 🇹🇱 Timor Leste, are all a bit off the beaten path, and all spectacular!  My full trip report coming in the next few weeks....

Our updated Android Beta is finally open! If you're interested in early access, LMK!

I'm excited to join Most Traveled People's annual Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia November 13-16th. Last month, I was invited by MTP founder Charles Veley to join one of their expeditions through some of the less traveled parts of Azerbaijan. Charles created MTP in 2005 after setting the world record as the youngest person to visit all the UN Countries & complete the TCC list.  The idea was to create the first systematic way of tracking travel, and the platform quickly became the source of record for travelers as it covered all of the main lists that existed at the time. MTP has evolved & grown, and now includes 1500 regions, which incorporate all of the other lists commonly used for tracking (UN, ISO, TCC & NomadMania Regions). Over the course of the five-day, 1,000+ KM, Azerbaijan Expedition, I got to know Charles and the MTP crew well, which consisted of 30 of the worlds most extreme travelers.After sharing a bit about Pangea and our community of Digital Nomads, Charles was excited to invite us to join the MTP Summit this year and shared the following: "This year's MTP Summit will be the largest meetup of extreme travelers in history, including the largest-ever contingent of UN Grandmasters (those who have been to all 193 UN Countries) to get together in the same place. All of our presenters are world-class experts, each ready to share their knowledge in a “how-to” type presentation, making it the perfect opportunity for Digital Nomads or anyone interested in off-the-beaten-path "extreme" travel to learn from today's most experienced travelers. I'm excited to meet the Pangea community at this year's Summit in Addis Ababa, and hope to see you join some of our upcoming trips to several of the most remote & interesting places in the world. ”If you're interested in meeting me, and the world's most extreme and well traveled people, I'd love for you to join us at the event!  Pangea members can save $100 with PANGEA100MTP.

Before & after the event, MTP is working with several of their partners to organize trips across the horn of Africa to places that are a bit off most people's radar. Sudan 🇸🇩 , South Sudan 🇸🇸, Eritrea 🇪🇷, Djibouti 🇩🇯 & Somalia 🇸🇴 plus several trips to various parts of Ethiopia 🇪🇹 which boasts more 9 UNESCO World Heritage sites. Since this is a region unfamiliar to most people (including me) I did some research, and there is no shortage of spectacular things to see. From swimming/diving with Whalesharks in the Gulf of Tadjoura or seeing Lac 'Assal in Djibouti, to exploring Asmara the UNESCO enshrined capital of Eritrea, to seeing the Meroe Pyramids in Sudan, to staying in a traditional Cattle Camp in South Sudan - these countries all seem spectacular. Photos above & below. If any of these are on your bucketlist, and you don't want to go alone, this is an awesome opportunity to explore them while meeting other members of both the Pangea & MTP Communities along the way!

NomadNest started in the weeks after Remote Year collapsed, and I'm pleased to report that they've now run several successful chapters! Co-Founded by RY Alumni Walid & Joanna, NomadNest brought on the best of the RY City teams including familiar names like Omar, Thiago, Natalie, and Cata to continue the best of what RY offered, while also thinking about how the model could be improved. Its great to see they're gaining momentum, and I'm excited to join some of their programs in 2026 (schedule dropping soon 👀). If you haven't figured out your plans for the fall yet, they've got some awesome chapters still open including:

If you're thinking about any of these destinations, be sure to book through them to help them get off the ground! 

Outsite remains one of my favorite travel communities with high quality accommodations & workspaces all over the world. Yesterday, they opened bookings for their NEW Barcelona location which will open in September, & Outsite members can get up to 1 week free if they book this month - use PANGEA50 for $50 off your membership & BETAWEEKBARCELONA when booking 14 nights or more to claim your free week. I also heard a very reliable rumor that Outsite will be launching trips next month... more on that soon 👀

Our pre-sale tickets are LIVE for this year's NomadWeek in Cape Town (25-31 Jan) which I'm co-hosting with Andrae Smith, a native Capetonian, long time digital nomad, and Founder of both NomadWeek & Work Wanderers- one of the world's leading communities for digital nomads. Tickets are going fast, are at the lowest price available, and offer early access to some of our limited capacity events including a Sunset Yacht Cruise and our Winelands Weekend Pool Party. We're also finalizing details for our Sunset Gala, which will be a dinner party at the TOP of table mountain - soooo stay turned for that! Be sure to get yours before its too late!

I've written extensively about some of our favorite community partners the last few months, and in cases where I've traveled with them or met the founders personally, have arranged discounts for Pangea members.  We're in the process of adding all of these programs, and the long tail of high-quality smaller programs to our app and new search tool on our website. 🛳 NomadCruise by Johannes Voelkner

🦅 NomadNest by Walid Elshahed & Joanna Asiukiewicz

💻 WiFi Tribe by Diego Burke

🏡 Outsite by Emmanuel Guisset

If you manage a Digital Nomad program that you think would be relevant to our community of 25k+ Digital Nomads & Solo Travelers, you can submit it here on our website.  We'll work through the large backlog we have to vet and get the best ones added to our website so our community can easily find them. Pangea Verified is our official stamp of approval, reserved only for programs our team has extensively traveled with, or where we have strong relationships with the founders.  The goal is to only showcase programs that I would personally endorse.  

Stay tuned for some exciting app updates in the next few weeks, and as always, if you've got ideas to work together or just want to connect, let me know!  

Cheers,

-Matt

Founder & CEO of Pangea

107/197 Countries (130 UN+) & 7 Continents Traveled

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