26/11/2021
“I started travelling when I was a child - my parents owned a travel agency, which might have been the catalyst that triggered my intense passion to visit every corner of the globe!
When I was 18, I had visited about 70 countries and decided to shatter the previous record by doing what I loved the most - travelling. By the time I turned 21, I also travelled to some of the world's most inaccessible places, such as North Korea.
And I became a Guinness World Record holder for being the youngest person ever to travel to every single country in the world.
With my family, I wandered from the floating villages of Cambodia to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, from Ushuaia at the tip of Argentina to the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.
My parents would take me out of school and place me on independent study for weeks and months at a time every year. My parents placed a lot of importance on exposing me to every way of life around the world and that had a very profound impact on the person I am today.
A woman travelling solo is always seen as dramatic by patriarchal societies across the globe. I was determined to show the world that it isn't as frightening as the media portrays it to be, and that kindness can be found anywhere. Most of my projects were self-funded. I managed to stretch out my savings for a year and a half.
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