{"id":2,"date":"2016-10-29T14:03:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T14:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salmatravels.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2016-11-24T21:32:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T02:32:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/salmatravels.com\/?page_id=2&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salmatravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DSC05147.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/salmatravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DSC05147-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Salt flats, Uyuni, Bolivia\" width=\"850\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hello reader \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My name is Salma El Hosseiny, I&#8217;m Egyptian, bored and raised in Cairo. You will always find me with a huge smile on my face \ud83d\ude00<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salmatravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0755.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/salmatravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0755-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"img_0755\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m 27 years old and I studied political science and human rights law. I had been working in civil society over the Middle East and North Africa region for 5 years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although this blog has nothing to do with my professional background, it does have to do with my core passions in life: travel and writing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Travelling has never failed to make me feel alive, happy and passionate. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until this year, I had taken short trips on my vacations to travel to Europe, USA and South East Asia. During these travels, I met people who have been travelling long-term, for months, even years. At first, I grew jealous and full of envy because I wished I could do the same. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then I thought to myself, if they could do it, so can I! After all, these travellers were just average people like you and me. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I set a deadline for myself, enrolled in a Spanish class, studied and saved intensely. At the start of 2016, I was happily unemployed and ready to explore all those places in South America I spent months reading about on the Internet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I flew to Buenos Aires, Argentina and started living my dream of exploring <strong>South America<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m now fluent in Spanish, and introducing myself to you from a tiny Internet cafe in Mancora, a beach town in the northern coast of Peru. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What&#8217;s in it for you?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I truly believe that sharing is one of the most important virtues of humanity, and now it&#8217;s my turn to contribute to the travel community online. I will share with you everything from logistics (transport, expenses), to recommendations on places to visit and food to try out. I&#8217;ll also share with you funny and inspiring stories from those I cross on the road. And of course, a picture is worth a thousand words, so expect a lot of photos of breathtaking natural landscapes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hope that this blog can draw a smile on your face, and inspire you to follow your dreams and discover this vast world. After all, life is really too short to live it up only a few weeks a year!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions or comments, I&#8217;d be delighted to hear from you. Drop me a line\u00a0at: salma.elhoseiny@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hello reader \ud83d\ude42 My name is Salma El Hosseiny, I&#8217;m Egyptian, bored and raised in Cairo. 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