Top 20 Thoughts to Things:
20. Exploring Angkor Wat with a talkative Cambodian kid eager to lead us through the twisted turns and hidden paths of his playground [Below-Ta Prohm]
19. Soaking in the serenity of the historic Ummayed Mosque, considered by some to be the 4th holiest site in Islam [Damascus, Syria]
18. Learning to drive standard on the back-roads of Argentina [Northwest, Argentina]
17. Practicing partner flying yoga at a tree-top studio in, where else? [Ubud, Bali]
16. Discovering the all-night nightlife of Beirut and best of all, with great friends [Below- Skybar, Lebanon]
15. Floating (and mud slopping) in the Dead Sea. They say the mud is great for your skin. It's also damn fun to play in it. [Jordan]
15. Floating (and mud slopping) in the Dead Sea. They say the mud is great for your skin. It's also damn fun to play in it. [Jordan]
14. Climbing a volcano with a vulcanologist and lunch-ing on lava rock at altitudes of 6000ft [Mount Etna, Sicily]
12. Riding an elephant bareback while in elephant mahout training (learning how to train and care for elephants) [outside Luang Prabang, Laos]
11. Making a wish on floating lanterns as we said goodbye to 2010 and rang in New Year's with spicy Thai food, fireworks and thousands of floating wishes [Chiang Mai, Thailand]
10. Walking across a glacier on those funny crampons (ice shoes). [Perito Morino, Argentina]
9. Becoming an advanced open water diver after time well spent underwater learning new tricks in the Red Sea [Egypt], Indonesia and the South Pacific Ocean [Fiji]
8. Renting the perfect place on the beach for a month and thinking about little else besides surfing, mango drinks, reading, and yoga [Siargao, Phillippines]
7. Witnessing 2 million animals cross the Masai Mara plains during the annual mass migration [Masai Mara, Kenya]
6. Driving 4500km across South Africa and taking in all of its diversity- landscape, people, culture- region by region. [Below- Coffee Bay, South Africa]
5. Meeting the endangered mighty mountain gorilla. We
trekked for 3 hours before finding a family of them in the thick bushes
of Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park [90min from Kigali, Rwanda]
4. Diving down 100 feet in the middle of the South Pacific through tunnels, amidst soft coral, sharks and colorful fish until we reached the famous Great White Wall [90 min boat ride from Taveuni, Fiji]
3. Motorbiking with a Vietnam vet for 6 days through Vietnam's mountains and old Ho Chi Minh trail, meeting locals along the way [Central highlands, Vietnam]
2. Canoeing 65km down the Zambezi river while dodging hippos and crocs and tenting in magical spots along the river - complete with nightly campfires, shooting stars and meals made over an open fire. [Zimbabwe]
1. Spending 3 days barefoot in the Sahara desert with new friends, laughing giddily as we went wadi bashing, slept under the stars at full moon and drank too much bedouin tea [Siwa, Egypt]
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