Countries and regions Ackermann visited included: Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass and Peshawar; Alaska, to which she was first sent by the WCTU (before it became an American state); Australia, including the states of South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and Tasmania; (she declared Hobart to be delightful having a complete absence of distinguished persons); Burma;{China more from a sense of duty than inclination on a steamer, which she called a tea boat,; England (London); Europe; Iceland, between 1894 and 1897 where she founded a WCTU; India, where she noted the devotion of the Hindus and toured the Taj Mahal; Japan, including Hokkaido as well as Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands not long after the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894-95 (In 1906, she published an article in the Scottish Geographical Society about her visit to the Ainu people in which she expressed her concern about the tattooing done on the women, comparing it with the foot binding in China and noting that the Ainu women share the fate of all the women of the East by being far from equal with the men in spite of the fact that they did all the heavy work.'Of course, the men cheerfully aid by free advice and directions' she added ironically); Java, where a journey to a temple was two hundred miles by slow rail; Kashmir; New Zealand, a place she said she would have chosen to live other than America; Siam, a place that was very difficult to reach at that time; the Sandwich Islands, where the Japanese Consul-General acted as her interpreter; Singapore, where she noted that thirty different languages are spoken; South Africa, en route to which, she climbed the mast in a divided skirt alongside the captain and another man.