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Documenting my journey, adventures and travels around the world as a backpacker.

26/12/2023

Memory ❤️

Can't believe that I travelled the world full-time for almost one year.

Let's see when I will leave for another journey around the world.

25/12/2023

11 months of full time travel ( 8 months solo )

8 months in Latin America

30/10/2023

Returning to shore after 11 months on the road (320 days)

A million thoughts run in my mind, waves of emotions of the countless smiles I came across, helping hands of hosts and friends I made on the way, where will it all lead me now?
After a journey across 21 new countries -> Malta, Greece, Morocco, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Gautemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Belize, El Salvador, Mexico, Georgia, Armenia, Andorra, Monaco, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; I am finally ready to return home to India. While my unsatiable soul years for infinite adventure, the body aches for some well deserved rest and recuperation. Traveling non-stop as a budget backpacker is no easy feat, cooking my own food, being a vegetarian, taking endless public transports (no taxis), cutting costs wherever I can, carrying 15 kgs backpack definitely takes a humongous toll. Also, solo travel for such a long period is an emotionally exhausting existence. Those who have tried it would only know the hardships, travel really is much more than shiny pictures would want one to believe.

It was not an easy journey, but every hardship was rewarded, a cloudy rainy day followed by a beautiful sunshine, a unhappy experience teaching me to be smarter next time, all of this leading me to keep pushing myself to greater challenges. In short, I am not the same person that left shores 11 months ago.
As I write this note, I fiddle with the boarding pass for my flight back to India, filled with both apprehensions and plans about my future? But one thing is certain, I left a big piece of my heart in Latin America and the only way to retrieve it, or lose more in the process, would be return back soon.

Who knows this period of rest would allow me some intensive travel planning for possibly newer frontiers, or returning back to older ones but to newer territories? Only time would tell.
A wanderlust heart can never truly rest, for there are always countless wonders calling far away.

I am already in tears because my heart just wants to keep travelling and keep doing more epic border crossings (overlanding journeys).

Follow us on https://instagram.com/backpackercrows to get more updates on our Pan-American journey (all through land border crossings)

29/05/2023

High altitude trekking in Peru

Peru is synonymous with Macchu Picchu. Every traveler coming to Peru wants to visit Macchu Picchu and take the iconic photograph. Yet in 2016, when I first laid my eyes on this amazingly unbelievable trekking route, it became my reason #1 for visiting Peru. For what attracts me, calms my very soul are towering magnanimous peaks bejeweled with deep blue lakes. This dream took 7 years to become a reality, but it was worth the wait.

40 days in Peru and 6 months on the road.

27/02/2023

Central America has been regarded as a dangerous place in the past decades but that is rapidly changing. Guatemala is leading with its prime destination for adventure lovers, witnessing a volcanic explosion at close quarters.

P.S border crossings completed Mexico -> Belize -> Gautemala -> El Salvador

Next border crossing El Salvador -> Honduras -> Nicaragua -> Costarica

Follow us on https://instagram.com/backpackercrows to get more updates on our Pan-American journey (all through land border crossings)

06/02/2023

As I write this note from a magical island off the shores of Belize, which happens to be my 50th country, I reflect on the "road less travelled" that I took.

As human beings, we are wired to live a life of relative safety. Have a good job, marriage then kids, buy a home and so on. More so when you are from an Indian household, specially a girl whom everyone expects to live in a certain way. So quitting one's job to travel the world, not once but twice has been a hard but necessary decision to make it to 50 countries finally.

So here I am, already on the road from last 2 months and despite being awake for last 20 hours on the road to travel, I am glad, almost proud of having this willpower to carry on .

This time it is Latin Americas. With my 50th country today we crossed our first land border in Central Americas (Mexico -> Belize). The journey from here on should get more interesting. In coming months we would be overlanding across these countries:

Belize -> Gautemala -> El Salvador -> Honduras -> Nicaragua -> Costa Rica

If interested you can follow my journeys here - https://instagram.com/backpackercrows

09/12/2022

Leaving shores for 1 year (major life update)

There is a great comfort in being at shore, safe in the harbour. Yet no journeys are done if ships never leave the harbour, traveling to unfamiliar waters, every day bringing a chance of sunshine or rough seas alike.

Leaving the stability of a job and comfort of a paycheck, was not an easy decision. Yet, when your very soul yearns for adventure in unknown lands and wonders far beyond, it had to be done.

So for the next 8-9 months or maybe an year or so, I aim to experience many countries across Europe, Africa and then to South and Central Americas. As I write this note, I gaze out on cliff ridden coastline of Malta, with both apprehensions that uncertainty brings, and wonder that my forays would bring.

Countries which I would be traveling for next one year - Malta, Greece, Morocco, Cuba, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Gautemala, Costarica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Belize, El Salvador, Mexico, Georgia, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Cyprus

For first three months Anshul Chaurasia would be traveling along with me but then I would be traveling the world solo for next 8-9 months

If interested you can follow my journeys here - https://instagram.com/backpackercrows

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