During this period, he met a number of travellers in the house U Halánků, including Emil Holub, they were born in the same year and they remained close friends for the rest of their lives.

While on the road, he carefully noted all aspects of the natural world, as well as all features of economic, cultural and religious life of the society.

His round the world travel started in 1893, he was accompanied by his friend Karel Řezníček (1845–1914), a beer brewer from Hrubá Skála.

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.

He sailed out of Naples through the Suez Canal to Aden and Colombo and then to West Australian Perth, Adelaide and through Ballarat to Melbourne.

His next destination was Tasmania and New Zealand, with Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington, where he met a famous Czech painter Gottfried Lindauer (1839–1926), who painted portraits of Maori population.

His next destination was the island of Celebes, followed by Java, where he visited the temple complex of Borobudur and the city of Bandung and Batavia.

From the port Shimonoseki he went to Korea (he stopped in Pusan and Wonsan), then to Vladivostok and along the Amur river, Khabarovsk and along the Trans-Siberian Railway through Irkutsk to Novosibirsk.

He frequently published books on his travels, they were written especially for young people, which had an obvious positive impact on the entire population.

He greatly contributed to the expanding of the horizons of the Czech nation, who were at that time being gradually integrated into the world.