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Álvaro Rojas

Álvaro Rojas shares travel stories as @wanderreds, writes about his journeys and brings fellow travelers along through Wander Expeditions, the company he founded after visiting every country.

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Álvaro’s happenings, collected from public sources, plus his backstory and Starbook, where fans write.

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Overview

From: Madrid, Spain
Known online as: Wanderreds
Work: Travel creator, photographer, author and expedition organizer
Before travel: Finance manager at Repsol
Milestones: Completed his first every-country journey in 2019 and his second in 2025

Mini bio

How it started.

Born and raised in Madrid, Álvaro built his travels around a career in finance. In a La Razón interview, he said he began sharing photographs and travel advice on Instagram in 2015, while still working at Repsol. Followers were drawn to destinations such as Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen.

Taking the leap.

Brand collaborations grew alongside his day job. In 2018 he took a two-year sabbatical to pursue his goal of visiting every country. He completed that first journey in 2019, ending in Cape Verde, and turned those experiences into his self-published book Stories in 2020.

Bringing people along.

During the pandemic, he shifted from creating travel content to organizing journeys through Wander Expeditions. In his 2025 NomadMania interview, he described the company as a way to take people along on the trips he had previously shared online.

Returning to the world.

His second every-country journey ended in Malta in June 2025. NomadMania recognized him as the youngest verified person to do it, aged 36. He celebrated with more than 100 friends from the Wander community and spoke about valuing the people he had traveled with.

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Quotes

I chased stories, for they are the most valuable riches.Álvaro Rojas, Stories excerpt in Magnificent World

In his June 2020 article introducing Stories, he shared an excerpt about what motivated his travels.

Trivia

Cape Verde was the final stop of his first every-country journey; Malta closed out his second.
Stories pairs a short story from each of 197 countries with photographs, arranged in the order he visited them.
He says an early solo Eurail trip helped him stop waiting for the perfect time or a companion to travel.
He named Afghanistan his favorite country in his 2025 NomadMania interview.