Brit who unintentionally became the youngest person to visit every country in the world FINALLY lets us see his journey... three years after it ended

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A British traveller who has become the youngest person to visit every country in the world aged 24, has finally shared the pictures of his trip... three years after it finished.

James Asquith, 28, who now works for Deutsche Bank in London, managed to visit all 196 countries from Australia to Iraq and San Marino to Serbia over the course of five years, ending his adventures in 2014. 

Mr Asquith, from Stevenage in Hertfordshire, even entered the Guinness Book of World Records last year as the youngest person in the world to travel to all sovereign countries.

James Asquith, pictured here at a glacier in Alaska, managed to visit all 196 countries from Australia to Iraq and San Marino to Serbia

Mr Asquith next to a giant pineapple by the coast in Boracay, the Phillipines, left, and at the chocolate hills in Bohol, the Philippines 

The seasoned traveller has now started an Instagram account to share the memories of his journey with others and in just three months he has become 'One To Watch' for 2017, with more than 80,000 followers. 

Surprisingly, Mr Asquith's world record-breaking travels were never planned - he embarked on a three-month trip during his gap year and it just snowballed from there, with trips fitted in around his timetable at the London School of Economics. 

He told Business Insider: 'It was never the purpose to race around and hop into every country to tick it off. 

'I thought, "I want to see more," and eventually decided I wanted to go everywhere.'  

Making new friends on the mudflats at the banks of the Ubangi river in Central African Republic

Asuith's picture of the Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize, from an aeroplane 

A kangaroo poses for its close-up during Asquith's journey to Australia 

Mr Asquith added: 'Vietnam was the first independent country I went to and I spent nearly three months there.

'I also spent about five months in the US and Canada, getting to 27 states from Hawaii to Alaska.' 

Spending his university holidays in far-flung destinations, Mr Asquith funded his travels through part-time jobs he'd had since the age of 16.

He also picked up work along the way in bars and hostels and eventually became lucky on the stock market, buying shares in British banks during the recession. 

It was only when he arrived in war-torn Egypt he realised he wanted to visit every country on the planet, including the unstable nations.

Mr Asquith in the salt flats of Bolivia, left, and standing on the solidified lava flows of The Big Island, Hawaii, right

Mr Asquith standing in the Australian outback next to Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock 

Posing in front of a large iceberg while on a wilderness trip in Alaska 

The seasoned traveller standing on white sandy beach on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean 

He added: 'I loved the adrenaline that went with it but I always seemed to pick the worst timing to visit a lot of the countries. 

'I went to Libya three weeks after Gaddafi fell, Afghanistan two weeks after the terrorist bombings in Mazar-i-Sharif, but generally I just found a local and tried to get an insight into each country.

'The longest I spent anywhere was six months in Africa. I travelled overland from Senegal to the Congo and then over back up through the east.

'There were lots of small countries and tricky border crossings, putting trust in some people that drove me as much as three countries a time. 

The record holder posing at Kīlauea, which is a currently active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands 

In this iconic shot he is captured standing in front of the Taj Mahal, on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra 

The traveller gives a thumbs-up to the camera during a bi-plane flight over San Diego