Meet the ‘Globetoddlers’: This tot flew 31,000km, visited five destinations in her first year

Mr Faris Iskandar Samat (right) and his wife Nur Fadhilah Shuib started travelling with their daughter Fayra when she was almost four months old. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
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SINGAPORE – By the time Fayra Armel Iskandar turned one year old, she had already travelled to five destinations by air and clocked more than 31,000km.

She was barely four months old when she took her first flight, which was three hours long, in November 2022, to the Indonesian island of Lombok.

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