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Last Summer I went to Peru. It was such an amazing trip and I was so fortunate to be able to go. It was during a very heated part of the covid virus, so there were very minimal tourists and it allowed us to experience almost all of the trail to ourselves. My whole family hiked to the ancient ruins on a 4 day trek through one of the craziest terrains in the world. Along the trail the climate changes almost every couple of hours. We went as high as 15,000ft and dropped in elevation for the rest of the days. On the trail you hike through farmlands, ginormous rock fields, high alpine mountains, and jungles. After the trip in Cuzco, we headed to Lima to see the city.

It was such a crazy experience walking through that city. It is always hard to imagine what it would be like to live in a different country, but for some reason I could see myself there. I surfed for a couple of days in Lima south of the city. There was a peeling left point break. My brother and I rented boards on the beach for ten dollars a day, and the water was so warm we didn't bother to rent wetsuits. I could have surfed there forever, We somehow caught a humongous swell coincidentally at the perfect time. The surf was uncrowded and we only had to share the waves with four other guys.

The food the whole trip was pretty insane. We hiked with a company that prided themselves on their professional chefs and a lot of courses. They would somehow whip up five courses of insane food that had all been carried on their backs. It was truly impressive that they could pull it off, they would even beat us to every spot so we could eat on arrival. The whole trip we were eating well. We went out to restaurants for a third of American prices every meal and they never disappointed. There is good surf, good food, and a lot of nice people in Peru and I would love to go back someday.

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2019 Spring break I went to Nepal with the ambitions of hiking the Annapurna Circuit. It is a 12 day trek with the highest being eighteen thousand feet at Thorong La pass. My parents don't really like to go on traditional vacations, they like to rough it up a bit. They travel the same way they did in their twenties except with money so we get to stay in hotels rather than hostels. The trip started off in Kathmandu, this was such a hectic city and the whole place was always moving. The streets are filled with small stores selling items either the same as or very similar to the people right next to them, it is all quite odd. It seems hard to believe that any of these people are able to make money at all. But overall the town was really cool, the streets were extremely hard to navigate I remember, with countless identical alleyways and the fact there were no road signs at all.

After leaving the City, we drove for hours through fields and fields of colorful crops and massive mountain tops towering abobe the clouds all arounfd you. you couldn't see the peak. When we finally got to the end of the road, it was cold and pitch black dark out. We had to hike for about an hour to the place we were staying.

The trip was quite the feat, on the fifth day we heard that there was a storm approaching the pass and we may have not been able to go over it if we didn't go fast enough. We were able to hike fast enough skip one of the tea houses we were going to and completely make it to the one we were going to the next day. This brought us the base of the pass which sat at sixteen thousand feet which is quite an uncomfortable altitude to sleep at. We were woken up at three in the morning and immediately began hiking up the sheer iced out trail. That day of the hike was one of the most challenging days of my life and I will never forget the feeling I had on the top of that mountain, It was truly incredible. The hike after that was mostly through an open desert and it was mostly easier compared to the first half. Three days after the hiking down the pass you are supposed to fly out of the final town on a small airplane right over the whole mountain range you hiked over, except due to bad weather we got stuck on a 9 hour drive through completely unbuilt roads. We somehow managed to pull it off, and it was one of the most intense things I had ever done.

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