Posts by The Salem Explorers

Courageous South Africa

By The Salem Explorers | July 1, 2015 |

(Navyn) “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” Nelson Mandela Apartheid, the Afrikaans word meaning “the state of being apart”, literally “apart-hood” was a system of racial segregation in South…

Skiing in the Sizzling Middle East

By The Salem Explorers | June 11, 2015 |

(Zara) After a long, red eye flight from Australia to Abu Dhabi, I woke up in a new hotel room in the Middle East. I opened my curtains for the first time to see where I was – Dubai. The windows were sandblasted and where the skyscrapers ended, a desolate, sandy desert began. It seemed as…