Wee Cheng Tan

Wee Cheng is Singaporean and a self-confessed travel junkie who had been to over two hundred countries and territories over the last two decades. He is listed by the 2008 Book of Singapore Records as the Singaporean who had been to the most number of countries. He has a weak spot for controversial places and has a tendency to get into minor troubles, such as getting arrested by corrupt police in Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and the rebel state of Transdniestria (Moldova). He has survived road accidents in Albania and floods in Ecuador, getting mugged in Jerusalem, St Petersburg and Bucharest, and almost got into a fight with a Cypriot gangster.

Wee Cheng has worked in the financial sector in Singapore, the UK and China, as an auditor, investment banker, financial regulator and chief financial officer of a listed company. These days he spends his leisure time planning more travels, working on his travel website (http://weecheng.com ), organizing travel talks for SgTravelCafe.com travel forum and having endless slices of good old kaya toast.