This past year I have had two amazing travel opportunities. One was to go to Cambodia and learn about culture, food, music, and nature; the other led me to a 30-day canoeing trip in Central Québec. While both experiences were on opposite sides of the spectrum, the similarities in the two regions is insane.
In Cambodia, the temperature is hot in the morning and hotter during the day. The city was loud and busy, and clean drinking water was scarce. Canada was almost the complete opposite, cold and colder during the day, silent except for the sounds of birds or paddle strokes, and the waters of the lakes and rivers were so clean that we did not boil nor filter them.
However, the similarities in the two landscapes are what fascinated me the most. How it could go from sun to rain in a matter of minutes, how once you stepped outside of the city, lush greenery covered the entire landscape, and although I was barely able to speak to the people of Québec, just like the people I met in Cambodia, they were welcoming and kind, even with a language barrier separating us.
World travel is an amazing experience and privilege that I am so blessed to have, it has changed me for the better, and I hope that everyone can experience immersing themselves in a completely different culture as well.
Me and my friend Ronen with our Cambodian guides Pum and Silong, who were two of the kindest and most welcoming people I have ever met.
Waving goodbye to the resupply pilots on my Canada trip. They flew to us a day early; they had to be evacuated from their airbase due to fires, and instead of immediately flying away, they decided to overpack the plane with our resupply food and get it to us before saving themselves.
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