Mardi Himal Trek Day 1 After we woke up and ate breakfast the jeep came and picked us up and brought us to the place where we started our trek . We started our trek walking up stars and on a concrete path. Every half an hour to an hour there was a tee house and camp. First we walked and hiked 2 to 3 hours to get to Australia camp and had tea. After we had tea and snacks we hiked 1 to 2 hours to love camp. We found our room and put some layers on and went to go order dinner.

Surfing So far in sri lanka we have done 3 surfing lessons and it has been really fun and surprisingly easy. We wake up eat breakfast then take a tuk tuk to the surfing beach, and a instructor is waiting for us. Then he tells us what we are going to be working on that day, then we practice it for about 5 minutes after that we get in the water and start surfing. Sometimes there are really big waves that he doesn't let you go on but i like the medium sized ones. Safaris In sri

Day 1: We woke up around 6:30 a.m. then we had breakfast. I ate oatmeal with bananas and guava on top. After that we waited for the Jeep to pick us up. When it arrived we gave the guide some of our stuff, got in the deep and started driving to well I didn't really know where. It was a 40 minute drive to the trailhead so we started hiking. It was about an hour walk to Australia camp. The trail was mostly Stone steps uphill with some flat. We kept hiking for another hour till

Nepal trek: tea houses On our trek we stopped at many tea houses, some were on the edge of a steep drop off or on a ridge looking off at valleys and mountains. With all these tea houses we could only stop at a few. We started in a small village on the side of the road. We didn't stay long. The next camp we passed through was Australia camp and there we passed through and on into the unknown…. For us at least, not the guide, he knew…. After the next camp we stopped for peanut

Surfing In Sri Lanka poem ish A surfing i shall go on my surfboard I’ll catch some waves I’ll paddle out then get ready to paddle forward so when a big wave comes i’ll paddle slowly then faster to catch the wave Once I’ve caught it I’ll stand up I’ll stand up to surf to the beach And on the way I’ll turn left and right And once ashore i’ll do it all over again So that I can do it well enough that i don’t need a instructor. So with my friends in galle I’ll surf the alongside

Deep sea fishing was an amazing experience. It was definitely something new and fun. Me and my dad set off at 12:00 to meet our guide. As we walked through the busy streets of Dahab I speculated what it was going to be like. As we got to the shop we saw that our guide was ready in his truck. So we got in and set off. As we loaded up our equipment I noticed that all the reels but 2 were electronic. As I wondered what they were for we had set off. After a short boat ride we dr

What makes a person worthy of not being alone, of being seen and having value. Why is it we can see people as unworthy of having a place to call home, of taking up space. When you have a group of people who don’t belong are they ostracized just because you say they don’t belong? What if they belong to each other and you just can’t see it for what it is. I am continually perplexed by American homelessness, I have yet to witness vast amounts of people who “don’t belong” in any

I. The bread is good. The bugs are annoying, they crawl on you and give you bites. The bread is good. The sugar cane is sweet and crunchy. The bread is good. The Tuk tuks and donkey carts are fast. The bread is good. II. Places I liked, the sand dunes, the salt lakes, the secret spring, camping in the sand dunes, driving with Ussef. I also played in a Shalle fortress and went sand boarding 2x. The farm had goats and chickens, rabbits, guinea pig, baby turkeys, pigeons, cats,

I. Impaled dates on trees Sugar cane so sweet, so yummy to chew. Impaled dates on trees. Springs so cleared pretty. There are springs everywhere. Impaled dates on trees Tuk Tuks zooming here and there, donkeys run just as fast. Impaled dates on trees II. The knowledge of how to read the Egyptian Hieroglyphics was lost around the Medieval times. Many people tried to decipher it. But, it never made sense. Until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in July 1799. It had three lang

I. The kittens are cute. The spring so clear and full of oxygen. The most beautiful ever. The kittens are cute. Dates so sweet, Dates so though and good. The kittens are cute. Sunset so beautiful, Sun rise so Beautiful. The kittens are cute. So many busses, so annoying. Beep. So many mosquitos bites, so annoying. Scratch. The kittens are cute. Pants so nice, pants so simple. The kittens are cute. II. My experience in Siwa oasis was wonderful. There are too many to talk about

We spent close to month in a true desert oasis in western Egypt. It is a 9 hour journey by car from Ciaro. We arrived at 3 in the morning and woke to a world that was very bright, dusty and lush. So Much of the weather, landscape and buildings made us feel we were close to home. Oasis's are curious things, surrounded by diverse dessert they sit flooded with water. Siwa receives less than 2 millimeters of rain a year, yet they are extracting far more crops from the ground than

Istanbul is my favorite big city so far. Very inch of its rolling coast line was filled with buildings upon buildings upon buildings. 15million people nestled together in quarters as old as Byzantine, Constantinople, and Istanbul. There is so much history, relics, And cats so many cats. We only opted for a few touristy things. Blue Mosque, Hagia Sofia and the Basilica cisterns. After the majesty of Uzbekistans gilded mosques some of us were under whelmed by the interior of

Uzbekistan was a treasure I only half expected. I new it would be glimmering with textiles but I did not expect the volume of crafts and richness of architecture this ancient silk road stoping point would unveil. Unlike its neighbors Kazakstan and and Kyrgyzstan who are dominated by nomadic culture, Uzbekistan holds cities that have been inhabited for 2500 years. Oasis ( that have recently dried up) provided natural stoping and trading points along the journeys since before

Amir Temur was a ruler in the 14 and 16 centuries . He was born on April 9 1336. He was known as Temurlame in the west for injuries he got while he was stealing a sheep. He was born into a poor family and had to prove himself with acts of daring and horsemanship. When an invading Khan (pronounced han) invaded the dynasty where he lived he decided to help him but the invasion failed. And Amir had to make amends with his father and brother in law who he later killed. Once he k

Crops from central Asia. Apples, peaches, apricots, walnuts, pistachios, cherries and Melons are all from central Asia . Walnuts are gathered in southern Kyrgyzstan. The season is only one month long and the money will last them a whole year. 10% of the world's apricots come from Tajikistan. Most of the farming is done by women not men. Also 40 kinds of melons came from central Asia. The oldest types of apple were small and tart. Apples were the first fruit to be grown for e

The first thing we learned is that China discovered paper first. The earliest evidence of paper was in 149 BC. A standardized process of making paper was invented in 105 ad. They traded paper across the silk road and some say the silk road should be called the paper road. Before paper, different materials were used for writing information. The Chinese used bamboo strips and bones and shells. Other materials included birch bark in Russia, stone tablets, pottery shards in Gree

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