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A Dream Trip to Canada
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I made sure that Canada (second biggest country in the world) was on my 2023 travel itinerary and it made sense to leave Canada until the very end of my North American trip. I ran into some minor complications with the planning beforehand, I was coming from Mexico, and due to visiting Iran, Yemen, Syria,…
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A Trip to Afghanistan
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Kabul was cool and a place that I had wanted to visited for years and years! I was really worried for a while about going to Afghanistan. It was the most worried I had ever been pre-departure for any trip that I had ever done. I’d been trying to get to Afghanistan for a while…
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Visiting the Equator in Sao Tome in Principe
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Going to the equator again was an absolute must as soon as I arrived in Sao Tome and Principe, a small island in West Africa. I flew to Sao Tome from Luanda, the capital city on Angola and the flight took just over 2 hours. I had already been to the equator in Ecuador in…
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STUCK AT BAHRAIN AIRPORT
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summer 2017 “Are you coming to Bahrain as a tourist? “Yes, I want to do some sightseeing over the next few days.” He flicks through my passport like Inspector Gadget. He notices the Iranian visa and gawks closely as if he had just solved a puzzle. “What exactly where you doing in Iran?” “I went…
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THE BACKDOOR INTO YEMEN
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“Just wait here a bit longer!” It’s already been an hour and a half since my attempt at trying to enter Yemen, accompanied by my driver. Everything is so easy on paper, the easy way to Yemen, go to Socotra Island, a Yemini tropical island close to Somalia, everything sorted, visas, documents, etc by the…
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VISITING LIONEL MESSI’S HOMETOWN IN ARGENTINA
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summer 2023 Visiting Lionel Messi’s hometown was an absolute must when I began planning my South American trip in 2023. I didn’t know a hell of a lot about Rosario, Sante Fe, his hometown, but once I did the proper research, it turned out that it was only about 4 hours, by bus, from Buenos…
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VISITING OSAMA BIN LADEN’S COMPOUND IN PAKISTAN
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June 2022 I always wanted to see the Bin Laden compound site, so when I began planning my trip to Pakistan in summer 2022, I knew that Karachi and Lahore were too far away from Abbottabad, the city where he spent his remaining couple of years after he moved away from Pashawar.Islamabad, on the other…
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GETTING ROBBED IN TAJIKISTAN
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GETTING ROBBED IN TAJIKISTAN SUMMER 2017 “Hey you,” I hear in the distance as I approach the emigration desk at Dushanbe Airport in Tajikistan. He’s a fairly well built customs official. “Show me your passport and show me your visa as well.” “No problem Sir” I reply. He then glances through my visa and begins…
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THE LONG + AWKWARD WAY TO GIZA
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August 2017 Before arriving in Egypt, I had no idea that the country was split into two, Southern Egypt, where Cairo is located and Northern Egypt, better known as the Senai Peninsula. It was all a little confusing and in recent years there has been an increase in terrorist attacks and instability, so the situation…
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FAILED TURKMENISTAN ATTEMPT
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JULY 2017 I always wanted to go to Turkmenistan! Those that I had been fortunate enough to meet on the road used to talk about how controlled the country really is. I had watched some documentaries online and the more I watched, the more I wanted to go and the more I wanted to explore….