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Discover more about your world by living in it. Learn foreign languages through immersive study. Master new skills by going to where they do them best. Go to where you feel uncomfortable, until strangers become your friends and you begin to feel at home.
“Living the dream” is usually the caption that goes along with photos of someone sitting with a laptop near a beach. But the reason we started Discover Discomfort was not to “live the dream”. More than anything else, we wanted to remember how lucky we are. In America and in Australia, our homes, we take…
I’m called lao-wai in China. We’re called agaanib in Egypt and wazungu in East Africa. But even those we’re those things, we’re other people, and we’re ourselves.
A huge list of tips on how we cut back on mobile cellular data while travelling to places like East Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
We are learning Swahili in Zanzibar and Tanzania, spending two months in East Africa. This is our one month update.
This is our guide for what to wear in Egypt as a female traveler — A complete packing guide to visiting all of Egypt’s most beautiful landmarks while respecting the local culture and feeling comfortable. Trying to figure out what to wear as a woman in a Muslim-majority country like Egypt can be tricky. Can…
Did you know that to say “7am” in Zanzibar, you say “one o’clock”? That’s called Swahili Time. It’s just one of many things we learned about living in Zanzibar.
Ramadan is a huge part of life in Zanzibar, which is mostly Muslim. Here are a few tips for how to make the most of Ramadan in Zanzibar as a visitor.
Our full guide to living in Cairo and Egypt, for anyone considering moving there. Everything including safety, language, religion, money, costs and more.
The Dead Sea is one of the biggest attractions in Israel and the West Bank and the place I was most looking forward to when we decided to add Israel / Palestine to our travel plans. During our time here, I discovered that this area is so much more than floating on the Dead Sea…
The complicated politics of nation, cultural identity and religion in Israel, Palestine or whatever you want to call “this part of the world”.