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6 out of the 7 continents complete!

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Yasmeen Ketcherside

Having been to 6 out of the 7 continents at such an early age, I am so fortunate. These below are not all the places I've been, but they are the ones that stand out the most! First, I wanted to thank my parents, as well as support and motivation from my friends, and second, please enjoy my little 'travel blog'!

Location: Tanzania

Cities visited: Arusha, Zanzibar, Serengeti National Park, Dar es Salaam

Favorite Memories: Our jeep driver drove us into a flowing river, thinking we could get through it... we didn't. Hunted with one of the last hunter and gatherer tribes in Tanzania. The bugs...

Fun Fact: The stone Tanzanite comes from here!


Location: Australia

Cities visited: Sydney, Cairns, Tasmania, Alice Springs

Favorite Memory: Tasting crocodile and kangerroo for the first time!

Fun Fact: It is a country, as well as a continent!


Location: Egypt

Cities visited: Cairo, Alexandria

Favorite Memory: Obviously visiting the PYRIMADS!

Fun Fact: The Sphinx is a lot smaller than I thought!


Location: Brazil

Cities visited: Rio de Janiero

Favorite Memory: New Years Eve in rio!

Fun Fact: Everyone wears white on New Years in Brazil to represent peace for the next year!


Location: Greece

Cities visited: Athens, Santorini, Crete

Favorite Memory: Smashing grapes to make wine and riding up stairs in Santorini on donkies!

Fun Fact: Greece has more archaeological museums than any other country in the world!

Location: Turkey

Cities visited: Istanbul, Cappadocia

Favorite Memory: Cave exploring in Cappadocia!

Fun Fact: Istanbul's Grand Bazaar has 64 streets, 4000 shops and 25,000 workers!


Location: South Africa

Cities visited: Cape Town, Johannesburg, Kruger National Park

Favorite Memory: Playing with the elephants, the safaries, and teaching little kids english!

Fun Fact: South Africa’s drinking water is rated 3rd best in the world for being safe and ready to drink!


Location: Spain

Cities visited: Barcelona, Seville, Granada, Madrid

Favorite Memory: Being in Madrid when Real and Atletico played eachother, seeing a bull fight, and visiting Camp Nou!

Fun Fact: Spain produces 45% of all olive oil in the world!


Location: Argentina

Cities visited: Buenos Aires

Favorite Memory: Staying with my first ever homestay!

Fun Fact: Messi is a God.


Location: France

Cities visited: Paris, Nice

Favorite Memory: Studying journalism in Paris, and coming to the conclusion that Parisians are nicer to female tourists than they are to male tourists.

Fun Fact: There is only one stop sign in all of Paris!


Location: Peru

Cities visited: Lima, Cusco

Favorite Memory: Getting to the top of Machu Picchu on a Tuesday while listening to Tuesday!

Fun Fact: Peru is the second largets producer of Cocaine.


Location: China

Cities visited: Beijing, Shanghai, Yunnan

Favorite Memory: Teaching little kids english as well as taking the slide down the Great Wall of China!

Fun Fact: There is a slide on the Great Wall of China!?! *still shocked


Location: England

Cities visited: London

Favorite Memory: Going to an English pub!

Fun Fact: You will meet people here, and still not be able to understand them!!

Thank you for reading about my adventures, and I hope that this inspires you to travel because I think that it is very important to see how other people live on the other side of the world, some things may shock you!

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