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Hello, welcome back to my travel blog! In this post, I will be sharing 5 tips for all you teenagers out there. Since spring break is coming up fast and I thought that I could give you some very helpful tips to enjoy your spring break v-cay!  

1. Get off of social media/put your phone down!! In this day and age, we are all connected to technology or a cell phone in some way. So, this is the perfect time to take a break and trust me once you do this it will make you feel so amazing and accomplished. I understand that you would want to take pictures of the beautiful place you’re staying at and that’s okay! But just try to limit the amount your spending your time staring at a screen and enjoy your vacation while it lasts.
2. Take on any new opportunity to try new things! But be smart and use your head, please! Once you do this it will make you very proud of yourself and will encourage you to try more things. This will open many opportunities for you and you will overall just live your vacation to the fullest! But remember to be SMART!
3. Use the buddy system. It’s always fun to be more adventurous and that’s fine but your most likely going to be in new surroundings that you don’t know very well. So I would recommend you travel and go places with other people to ensure your safety. 
4. Don’t be ashamed to eat what you would call normal food or American food. Sometimes familiar food is more comforting if you’re at a new place. But I would also recommend to eat at least a little of the food at your destination. The food can be oh so delicious! 
5. My last tip is to be open to strangers. Not everyone bites, but be careful. It’s okay to say “hi” to any locals or people you run into (Not literally) and try to make some new friends at your resort/ hotel! 

Thank you for reading my blog! I hope you can keep these tips in mind for your next vacation or even the spring break trip you’ve been waiting for!

–Sahara Wahrenbrock 

Hello everyone, welcome back to one of my travel blogs! In today’s post, I will be sharing the top five places I want to travel to before you know my time is up in this world. I hope you enjoy and thanks for sticking around!

• 1: The destination on the top of my budget list would be Fiji! What really intrigued me about this place is the beautiful scenery. Right as you get onto this island you see sky blue waters and the warmth the sun brings!  Also, you get to stay bungalows not just any boring hotel. Bungalows are almost like little wooden houses that sit above the water, most likely with others around them. I mean, who wouldn’t want to go here?

 

• 2: Greece! This outstanding place is surrounded by beautiful architectural buildings that just amaze you when you first lay your eye on them!  Also, I could never forget about the ocean boarding this breathtaking place.  Would you come here too!?

 

• 3: Bora Bora! Similar to Fiji but amazing in different ways! Here you can also experience the overwater stay in bungalows along with the beautiful ocean. This outstanding island is full of animal life onshore and marine life in the waters. There are endless activities to do like snorkeling, kayaking, etc. Now, this is the place to lay on the beach and get a golden tan!

 

 

• 4. The Peruvian Amazon!  Here the jungle invites you to its variety of amazing features. There is a huge variety of animals you can see along with waterfalls, mountain peaks, and more! Overall, who wouldn’t want to walk through the Amazon rainforest!  (If you want to learn more about the Peruvian Amazon, check out my latest post titled “Top ten places to travel to in 2020”).

 

• 5. Last but definitely not least Belize! Now, this is one of the most beautiful destinations I’ve seen! Here you can experience many on the water activities such as kayaking, paddleboarding, snorkeling, etc. Also, it is not just any paddleboarding in the ocean you get the experience to do it over Belize’s barrier reef and see a TON of marine life! It sounds like the perfect tropical vacation to me! (You can also check out more about this wonderful place on my latest blog post, “Top ten places to travel to in 2020”).

 

Well, this is the end to the start of my travel bucket list! I hope you enjoyed!  Where do you want to travel to in your lifetime?

Hey everyone! It’s a new year and that means new you right? Well for all of you want to travel the world in 2020, where should you start?  Well, since 2019 ended that means that I’m here to inform you about the top ten places traveled to in the past year, according to National Geographic. (Not in order)

1. Mexico City, Mexico. Also the capital of Mexico. Here you will find a variety of traditional Mexican foods such as a tortilla, this hot and fresh tortilla could be found everywhere among the streets of Mexico City. This is the perfect place for anyone who wants to get a taste of several traditional foods (that taste AMAZING). This city is also full of not only fantastic food but also there are many tourist attractions.

2. Peruvian Amazon. Welcome to the jungle! The fantastic Amazon rain forest invites you to several outstanding features such as high jungles, cloud forests, flooded forests, vast swamps, waterfalls, mountain peaks, and more. Also, I could not forget about the HUGE variety of animals that you could see here! The Peruvian Amazon is the place for all of your adventures in the new year. Would you want to walk through the treetops almost 100 ft of the ground in the Amazon?

3. Fanjingshan, China. Here you will have the once in a lifetime chance to climb on Chinas newest World Heritage site, Fanjingshan Peak. Also known as the climb through the sea of clouds. This sacred Buddhist site where 48 temples once stood is an outstanding place for hikers, also has a variety of bizarre rock formations and above the cloud views of China’s Wuling mountain range. Also, there are rare species that you can see nowhere else in the world such as the gray snub-nosed monkey. Would you go to Fanjingshan and climb the peak?

4.  Dordogne, France. As National Geographic states, you live the fairy tail here.

There is picture-book like castles and the true charm of southwestern France lives in its long-cherished culture.  There are endless activities, such as kayaking down the Dordogne river, a variety of upscale hotels and golf courses, also 15 World Heritage sites. The fun and adventure never ends here. I mean who wouldn’t want to see a castle!?     

5. Canterbury Region, New Zealand. This place is truly known for there absolutely stunning terrain! Here you will find grassy plains, clear lakes, and snow-capped mountains.

Some popular places to visit here are Lake Pukaki, which is a beautiful lake that you can sightsee or go biking around. Next, you could have the chance to climb the highest mountain in New Zealand, Mount Cook. Mount Cook is the perfect challenge for mountain climbers or even just to hike.

6. Greenland.  Welcome to the world’s largest island. This place is EPIC!  Here you will experience off-the-hook artic adventures, sea kayaking among icebergs, and you could even go dog sledding! Almost 80% of this island is covered in Greenland ice sheets and there are no roads that connect to towns. Weird Right? How do you get around? Well, you can sail or sour in boats, ferries, planes, or even helicopters! What else can you do here you ask? I have you covered!  You can climb the solid rock walls of south Greenland’s fjords and witness a dazzling northern lights display in remote Northeast Greenland’s National Park. Would you come here? I sure would!

7. Belize. This outstanding place is one of Central America’s smallest countries but is doing huge things! Recently, In June 2018 the Belize Barrier Reef System, which Charles Darwin said was “the most remarkable reef in the West Indies,” was removed from the list of being in danger. Anyways, Belize borders the Caribbean Sea in the west and in the east Belize’s dense jungle is home to many Muan Ruins. Offshore the massive Belize Barrier Reef is home to a TON of amazing marine life! Some activities you can do on the water are snorkeling, diving, kayaking, or stand-up paddleboarding in the waters of the Belize barrier reef. This remarkable place is truly a place anyone should have on their bucket list!

8. Caño Cristales River, Colombia. Now, this is one of the COOLEST places I’ve seen! You probably so curious about what’s so amazing there, right?  Well, I don’t think any of you would have guessed this but there is a rainbow river that flows through the heart of Colombia! The river gets its colors from the blooming aquatic plants. The colors persist of red, green, yellow, blue, and black. To add to the color the cristal clear waters and sunlight create a sparkling effect in the water! SO BEAUTIFUL!!  Get ready to swim through the river of rainbows in Caño Cristales River, Colombia! 

9. Cairo, Egypt. You can have a walk through the past at the 5.2-million-square-foot Grand Egyptian Museum! The museum consists of 50,000 ancient objects plus almost 5,000 different artifacts and it costs more than a BILLION dollars to make. Now that’s a lot of money!  There are several other places to visit and keep in mind the past is always present in the Egyptian capital.

10. Last but definitely not least…..South Walton County, Florida! This county is home to the highest natural point in Florida and the ocean is full of marine life. Since Florida is on the beach there are endless beach activities to do here! Some water and/or seaside activities are snorkeling, fishing, kayaking! Who wouldn’t want to get away from the cold winter months of January and go to Florida!

 

Well, that’s the top ten places you should go to this new year! I hope you get to go to one of the amazing and beautiful destinations. Where will you be traveling to this new year?

 

Hey, y’all!

Its been a while, but I’m here to share about a really let’s say an interesting and scary trip I went on.  Let’s start with the basics, I was in Cancun, Mexico. It was beautiful of coarse and everything was going really well. The first couple of days we explored, got to go in the ocean, and had baby monkeys sit on our heads and more! Everything was normal, we were living our best lives!

My family and I have been to Mexico before and it was really fun the last time we went. As some of you know Mexico sometimes is not let’s say the safest place out of the resorts. Sometimes it a little sketchy you know. Right? Well, my family and I knew this and always counted on the resorts to keep us safe, and we did. (Disclaimer, not everywhere/everything is bad there) 

The second to last day, my whole family including me were on the beach playing with these little boards on the waves trying to surf (This was SOOO fun). My sisters and I were splashing in the waves and having a blast. We had noticed over the last few days on the beach that there were these two men selling things, we later learned these people were trespassing onto this resorts beach and selling cigars.  When my sisters and I were done in the water we were walking to our parents and out of nowhere many frantic people were running towards the hotel. We all were so confused and did not know what to do. Then this one man started yelling “THERES A SHOOTING BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE ON THE BEACH, GO HID IN THE CABANAS”. My whole family looked at each other frightened and started running to the cabanas. We hid under and between them, it was so scary! Many people we crying and SO SO scared. We kept as quiet as we could and remanded hiding until managers and hotel workers came and told us to go to our hotel rooms. 

After this frightening situation was over my family and I were told about what the details were. It happened to be those two men selling the cigars who got in a fight, which was about both of them selling the same stuff. Then one man pulled a gun on the other. Luckily, no one got hurt or injured and they were arrested. 

The rest of the trip I was on my nerve and we did not go back on the beach for the last couple days. Everything else on the trip was great it just happened to be that one event that made the trip scary:(  

Well, thank you for taking the time to read my blog! I hope that nothing like this ever happens to any of you. Keep in mind this is not very common. Anyways, are there any places and/or experiences that you have been in similar to this you have been in? 

– Buddy (Also known as Sahara)

 

Hello, to you travel people! What’s up? Welcome to my first blog post!

Let start off strong with some of the best places I’ve ever traveled too. The place on the tippy top of my list is…( drum roll please!) Costa Rica! This by far was the most gorgeous and most unique place I’ve ever been too. One of the most distinctive features of the place was the sand (sounds boring right?) buts it is NOT just any boring tan-colored sand it was a charcoal black! At first, when we got there I was so confused about its color but I later learned that it is from the volcanic formations around the island. Along with the sand, the water was a beautiful sky blue and the tides changed so much that in the morning you could walk hundreds of feel out in the ocean on just sand. Later in the day that would be all covered up by deep water. One of my many favorite things from this trip was the wildlife. Every morning we would wake up to little baby monkeys swinging and hanging upside down around the trees. They were SOO cute and friendly, we would feed them bananas and other fruits! When my sister and I were in a cabana a monkey came and grabbed some of our grapes out of our fruit bowl! (That sneaky little thing).

Its time for my next favorite place and I would say the second place ribbon goes to Lexington, Kentucky! This place is especially for horse lovers, but anyone could enjoy it as much as I did.  Anyways this place was outstanding with the perfect green pastures with black and white fences & historical stone walls spread out amoung place. Right as set foot on this wonderful place I saw blue skies with fluffy white clouds and that warmth of the sun hit my face, it was so pretty! My favorite thing I did this whole trip was going on a tour racehorse tracks. The track I found most interesting was Keenland! It was so cool to see the track in person and actually get to see people training on it.

Now it is time for my third place ribbon to go out! Hmm, this is a tuff choice… But I think it goes to Scottsdale, Arizona. All though it is almost always above 100 degrees when we were there,  this place also had some really unique features! Like you would find little cactuses and REALLY pointy plants in random places. (My crazy sister decided to put her hand a cactus, shes so dumb sometimes). There we HUGE rock formations that you could see for miles and miles. Along with the mountains, you can go hikes like through Camelback Mountian which is a popular place for tourists! They are many more things you could do there like  Go to Old Town Scottsdale which has hundreds of shops and restaurants! The thing that was so different was the houses, they were totally different then what you would see in Wisconsin. Many of them were rustic orange color, with the roof that has tiling on them and they were made out of some type of stone.  Overall this place was an amazing place to travel and there were so many things you could do. This is a place everyone should put bucket lists!!

–  Thank you for reading my blog! I hope someday you will travel to these incredible places, where would you like to go?