He completed two biggest and longest journeys during his lifetime. He travelled around the world and he also visited Australia and New Zealand. His round the world travel started in 1893, he was accompanied by his friend Karel Řezníček (1845-1914), a beer brewer from Hrubá Skála. They sailed out the German harbour Bremen, crossing the Atlantic to visit the World's Fair in Chicago. Naturally, other American cities and sights were visited on the way, for example Niagara Falls and Yellowstone National Park. They continued towards the Pacific and then to Japan on a steamship, with a short stopover in Hawaii. China and Hong Kong came next, with further sea voyage to Malay Peninsula and Java before crossing the Indian Ocean to Ceylon. They then continued overland to Darjeeling and under the Himalayas to Mumbai and then again on a steamer to the Red Sea and Egypt to study the ancient Egyptian history. They returned to Prague via Trieste in 1894.