the SCARIEST thing I’ve EVER DONE on my Travels... 

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River activities like rafting scare the living daylights out of me! There's NO WAY I would sign up for this. 😆

The scariest thing I ever done is --- BEING IN A RELATIONSHIP!!! =))

This just adds my list of things I will never do. I'll be deadass scared of this!!

Am I being over dramatic? That's okay, the internet loves drama! :P

Thanks for explaining vividly, what I "NEVER" want, nor, need to do. And I have been White Water Rafting...

Glad you made it. Couldn't have a world were Nadine is not here to feed my wanderlust

Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend from high school who passed. Very good to know about watching out for eddys when in rivers

Wow, Nadine! You have strength. Thank you for sharing. The first thing I thought when you shared this story is Ryker and Alexis whom experienced something similar. Can’t even begin to imagine... RIP for all 3 😔❤️

On the list of things I would never do along with underwater cave diving and climbing Mt Everest

Encountering a bear in the wild in Glacier NP is up there on my list.

While I'm up for trying most things, I'm not sure I would do that.

Nadine, you are such an adventurous and kick-butt gal. You encourage me to go beyond my comfort zone. Thank you for sharing your stories and please keep safe! 💗

Usually it is recommended if you fall out of a raft to float feet downstream. It's better to push off rocks with your feet than upper body or head. I floated feet first when I washed out of the raft and floated a class V on the Zambezi which has large crocodiles. They generally eat things in the river smaller than them. The crocodiles range in length from about 11-20 feet. It is all about managing panic. Another one was being in an open jeep about 8 feet from a leopard that was hunting. Then there were rebel gunshots nearby visiting the mountain gorillas in Virunga NP. But the most interesting was a roadblock by child soldiers during the civil war in Sierra Leone. It wasn't as scary as the rapids because I didn't know at that time what they were capable of. Touristing in Kabul felt somewhat safe.

My scariest story is being stranded without a phone and WiFi in the middle of France at 2AM after our bus dropped us off at the train station. I don’t know French and everyone had gotten off by then. And I know my Airbnb was about a mile away... thankfully two girls gave me a ride to my Airbnb, and I got on my flight later on at 9AM!

Am I the only one who got scared in the little cable cars that go from the sea to the top of the mountain in Santorini? They looked very old and not really safe... or maybe I'm just used to very safe/modern cable cars in the mountains of Switzerland, where I live haha

I give you a lot of credit for attempting that as there would be no way I would be in that river, lol! One travel moment where I felt very nervous happened last year when I was in Vienna. I was walking from the Danube Tower (I highly recommend checking it out at sunset for amazing views of Vienna) to the U-Bahn station after dark, and it was extremely dark out as the park had no lights on at all except for buildings off in the distance. I could barely see, and it was very quiet. I felt much better once I got out of the park, but it was really tense!

Subscribed back in your WoW days. I quit playing like 6 years ago. Realized I was still subscribed and stayed for the awesome adventures!

I was boogie boarding once and got caught underneath a current. I was probably only stuck underwater for a few seconds, but you're right...it feels like an eternity and your brain just panics!

Wow how scary. Top of my list was cruising in Greece during an earthquake or looking into a crater on Mount Etna. Love your videos ❤️

I was expecting a ghost story, but never heard of river boarding. Sounds scary, but also sounds like a lot of fun and something I would try.

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I've never been really scared but I kinda felt unsafe when I was in Egypt. We were on camels during more than 2 hours between the mountains and the red sea and the camels were walking on wet rocks near the sea. They did that everyday so they were used to it, I guess.. but at sometimes they slipped a little and I really thought I was going to fall in the rocks and then in the sea, which was really agitated.. But nothing bad happened and it's a great memory now.. the landscapes were amazing

How often do you travel in a year? And how do you decide on where to go? I love your videos btw!

That just confirms why I am such a fan. You just do these really scary things that would freak me out. I'm just too chicken to do anything like that but I can still experience it through your eyes from the safety of my computer chair.

Hey Nadine! I happen to be taking my first solo trip ever to Barcelona at the end of the month (scary). I was wondering if you had any MUST EAT restaurants or MUST SEE sights other than Sagrada Familia that you could recommend? Thanks, much appreciated.

Omg I would be so freaking scared. I prefer taking kayak on a nice calm lake

Great video. Looks terrifying! You were literally at the mercy of the river!!! 😲

Literally never doing this! 😱

Now I want to do this for sure!

Thanks for sharing your bad experience. Travelers usually share just fun, successful stories. It´s good to know that not everything is fantastic when you travel, make the thing more real. Glad you came out alive from that.

Looks like fun

Dam river boarding seems like a really bad idea lol if there was a problem the guides would have had no way of helping lol 😂

For me it was crossing the streets in Ho Chi Minh city and Hanoi.

The scariest thing I have ever done was go hiking in Lichenstein so completely and utterly unprepared that I had to hitch hike back down to Vaduz in order to avoid a storm rolling in. I also ended up running out of water about 2 hours into an 8 hour hike. What a day.

I have done alot of scarey things skydiving, bungy jumping, paragliding, and even fought in two wars but Mine is riding in a bus with bad tires across the Ades mountians of Peru on the narrow roads with a sheer cliff and no guardrail!! The driver was going really fast and when we stopped the tires were about to burst bc the wires were showing.

I never wanted to do this until now

You one brave girl!!

I did a whitewater rafting trip once. There was this chute/slide they let let everyone go down without the raft one by one. At the end of the slide, you got dumped into the river and went underwater for a few seconds and I wasn’t able to breath either and totally thought I was going to drown. Hated it.

I can confirm being stuck in an Eddy ain’t fun. I got stuck in one in my kayak and I about to tip out. Another paddler had to slam into my kayak to free me :(( sad times P.s. I’m very sorry to hear about your friend :(

Having been whitewater rafting and kayaking several times, which were amazing, this just looks completely crazy.

I can definitely see why this was your scariest travel moment, it seems like there were a lot of opportunities for things to get dangerous. Glad you made it out ok!

That answers my question, at least you can say you did it!!!

Honestly, looks fun. I'd try it.

The intelligence test. You pass when you learn to never do such risky things again. Of course, quality of life is more important than quantity of life. I’m 71+. Do choose quality of life.

My scariest experience was actually quite similar, but it was on a canoeing trip down a river that had some class 4 rapids. I was big into white water canoeing and was pretty good at it. But this river had such hard turns and hydraulics that threw us straight into huge boulders and down into grooves under said boulders (like your washing machine). The problem was there was no way to get off the river until you went through a substantial part of the rapids. Not a good time. I didn't go canoeing for several months after that. Just in over my head on that one. I am more into sea kayaking now. Seems in your case that having that many boards so close together would have made it more dangerous.

Scariest for me was paragliding in Budva. I had paraglide before and this one didn't seem safe. A few weeks after my jump, a tourist was killed doing the same jump along with her guide. Apparently the jump I did had been long forbidden but the jumpers continued to sell it regardless. ( I have video of my jump)

Jeez I didn't realize how dangerous the sides of the river can be! One of my scariest travel moments was being a passenger on I-80 going through Nevada surrounded only by semi-trucks and a driver that did not listen to my concerns or care to slow down. I felt soo out of control.

The danger of Mount Everest right now, is that it's just to busy. You can die of frostbite or your oxygen tanks will be empty because you have to wait too long for other people to climb up a certain area

Scariest thing I have ever done? Driving on the Belt Parkway on Long Island! But seriously, never liked water activities especially going down rapids.

been face to face with a brown bear in the Canadian wilderness a place called Quetico provincial park

Oh hell no, I would never do this. I have so much respect for water & this girl will not be testing water at all. Greetings from South Africa

Kayaking in 25 mph winds, several miles from shore, is pretty scary

Scariest thing for me was outside YuYuan Garden in old town Shanghai a few years ago. It was lantern festival time, and I had the “not-so-bright” idea of heading there to get into the Garden to see all the lovely lanterns at night. Trouble was, about 100,000 other people had the same idea. You need a ticket to get in, and I didn’t have one. The ticket line was not feasible with thousands waiting. For some reason, I walked though a “sardine can” crush of people for a solid city block to get to the entrance (thinking I could find extra tickets there). It was like walking through several Shanghai subway cars during rush hour. Not advisable! I got to the entrance, there was a railing separating me from it, no way to get tickets and no way to get away from railing while other people kept walking in my direction toward the railing. I was pinned up against it, with a mass of humanity behind me and no way to move forward. I thought I would be trampled or die in that crowd, at that moment. It’s the only time I’ve ever been scared in China in over ten trips there spanning ten months time spent there the past decade. My wife was luckily with me, and she spotted a very narrow path to the side that we slithered through to get away from the railing, and then we walked back through the sardine can and after a block or two, we were back at the subway entrance. Whew! Stay away from popular mass humanity events in China, especially if you don’t preplan with tickets or knowing a way out!

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Well! Lucky you survived that company!

I was once rubbing down a river and me and my friends decided to try and get out at an early dock, my friends made it out I didn’t, my raft deflated and the current was taking me incredibly fast down the river in a very deep dark section surrounded by dark creepy caves, alone. Needless to say I had a panic attack and tried my best to swim back to them with no luck. After a few minutes (but what felt like an eternity) my friends were able to come after me but it was terrifying and reminds me of what you did so that’s a big no from me.

I've done rafting once but I'm not an adventurer so I think I'd never do that 😱

Horse back riding near the Grand Tetons, it didn't look like this company took care of their horses and as a result the horses didn't listen well. When I expressed my concern I was silenced and told it would get better, it didn't. At the end my horse got spooked and bolted with me on the back. No one asked if I was OK and I walked away from the experience crying and shaking.

Scariest thing for me was when I was white water rafting in India and we got flipped off and I was stuck under the raft for what felt like a million years and then once I got free I still was stuck in the water. I'm glad I did it but will never be doing it again.

So the most eye-opening and kind of scary thing I’ve ever done while traveling was going to the Golan Heights in Israel. Me and my friends went to the border of Syria and Israel called the bental lookout in August 2016 when the huge conflict was happening. And when we were there there is a Syrian city near the border and we could hear bombs go off and gun fire. It made me and I don’t know I think about it a lot though it changed me as a person

Hi Nadine, I had a similar situation happen to me in Pucon, Chile. It was rafting class 4. The river was very swollen and the other people I;the raft has never been rafting except me and rage guide. I had dome plenty of rafting in Nz.... anyway.... disaster struck people didn’t Listen and paddle hard the raft flipped in let say it was pretty much class 5. I was held under for a very long time “so I get washing machine” when I was able to come to surface I was eventually grabbed and pulled into the raft there was only the guide and one other person.... everyone else was scattered over the river bed. Terrible experience the guide told me he was surprised I was alive. Scariest thing ever and I do lots of adventure hiking stuff .... I promised myself never to do rafting again. And I haven’t it was a very lucky escape.... and they company I went with is no longer

I went zip lining in Roatan during a torrential rain storm. Our guide grabbed a huge banana leaf, he used as an umbrella and said this will keep you dry. The rain was pounding against my face at times but there were moments of absolute exhilaration of watching the lush tropical scenery, mixed with the warmth of the air, that I never really felt scared or thought WTF!! But... I will never do that again... A scary moment, at times? A Stupid moment, "most definitely."

And I nearly pooped my pants when I did the Shotover Jet in Queenstown NZ!

Falling into a crevass is an experience as well 👌

Have you really been traveling for 10 years now? I feel like I saw your video of when you were packing for your first trip abroad, that couldn’t have been 10 years ago! 😳

Scary indeed!!! 😱😱 I tend to travel safe only...... though I got my purse robbed in Rome

I've done 5 trips to New Zealand and have done some fun adventure activities. No riverboarding though. I will say the scariest thing I ever did was in Zambia at Victoria Falls. We went to Devil's Pool. This is at the edge of the fall and the guides there are fearless, standing at the edge of the 350 foot falls. I gave them my camera to photograph our experience and they were standing right on the edge, I feared for their safety. But then our guide wanted me to lay down flat on my belly and look over the falls while he held onto my legs. I had put on some sunless tanner and my legs were slippery. I don't think he was prepared for how slippery they were and neither was I! My husband was there and just told him there was no WAY he was going to look over the falls! Ya, thank you - not again. I loved Africa, loved our experiences at Victoria Falls. But no, to leaning over them!

Mine would probably have to be almost getting kidnapped by the Bali taxi mafia!

Naw girl that sounds terrifying. Count me out 😂😂

I crashed my bike once in 2012

situation where i genuinely felt scared for my life....uhh probably the first time i went to Vietnam during the bus journey back from Halong Bay. Our driver decided to get into an argument with another truck driver over him pushing into line waiting at the toll booth which then proceeded to get out of control where our minibus was attacked with a huge pole, smashed and then proceeded to speed down the highway where we were being chased by the other truck and all his friends he had called, thought we were going to be run off the road or maybe shot....yeah that was scary lol lucky the second time to Vietnam went way more smoothly :)

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Looks like Deadly Rocks on either Side, and water flowing trying to swallow you :-O

cliffjumping in the philippines

That's pretty darn scary. I'm already afraid of water, so I definitely would not do this.

nooooo rivers for me!!! lol

This is crazy

The scariest thing that ever happened to me was crossing the border from Nicaragua to Costa Rica in 1990. When I came out of the Nicaraguan checkpoint, I found out that the Costa Rican checkpoint was 3 kilometers away and they wanted $2 for the shuttle bus. Not willing to pay this outrageous amount, I shouldered my pack and started walking. The road was a narrow asphalt one-lane road through the jungle. Halfway through, I heard rustling in the bushes to my left and a small troop of heavily armed guerilla soldiers (5 or 6 of them) came running out of the jungle and surrounded me so tightly that I couldn't move. Their leader was right in my face screaming at me in Spanish, asking me questions that indicated they thought I was a spy. My brain went into hyperspeed and I decided that they must be Uno troops (if they were Sandinista, I may have been dead) so I pretended to not understand what he was saying and finally admitted that I was an American. The mood changed immediately and they started slapping me on the back and calling me "El Loco Gringo." As soon as they moved out of my way, I started walking again, relieved to be alive. Three weeks later, I was coming back the other way and happily paid my $2 for the shuttle bus.

The nature of this activity is just extremely dangerous. I don't see how they can "make" it safer. Even the guides are around, if you ever get into any danger, all they can do it yelling and see you drown. Glad to know that you were fine.

As a kiwi, we did this all the time as kids/teens without guides and supervision 🙊

I would be scared for my life.

The guide had the camera on him while you were boarding? Anyway, there are certain things that I just wouldn't do such as....white water anything or jump out of a plane unless my life DEPENDED on it. I just don't want to die.out of stupidity ie: taking a selfie on the edge of a cliff, etc. etc.

It looks bad enough in a raft let alone on a boogie board!! That's crazy!!

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Just no...you could not pay me a million dollars to do this!

You have to navigate violent rapids on a small boogie board. People who didn't do it right have died. That sounds like fun! Sign me up! :)

I thought the scariest thing you did was that night in the Amazon. My scariest is still sky diving. Or any view with heights.

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Lol...you are fearless!! Not sure this should even be a "thing". Whose bright idea was it that the only thing standing between humanity and certain death was a plastic board and helmet? You Go Girl...my hat is off to you...but for me.... No thank you!!!

Being extorted in Brazil. Yea it really happened 😳

The scariest thing Ive ever done was looking for you in Azeroth and realized you was gone forever :(

So not the scariest thing I've done BY CHOICE but my bf and I were in Beijing, China and we had to catch a train to Shanghai at around 11 am so we decided to go to the temple of heaven before catching our train. We exit out the back of the temple and we just couldn't hail a cab. so this guy driving a tuk tuk pulls up and offers us a ride. well, we had me, my bf, 2 backpacks, a duffle bag, a suitcase, and 2 camera bags and the mo-ped was struggling. first of all, he was driving down the opposite direction on the highway so he pulls off and down an alley and I'm thinking "this is where we get murdered" lol he just changes the battery and were off again. whew. we get about a block away from the train station and another tuk tuk driver yells something in Chinese, our driver immediately stops and kicks us out. I was holding $40 CYN (not even knowing if that's how much it was) he takes it without a word and leaves us on the side of the road...needless to say, i was scared out of my mind at the time but now i can laugh about it

Lol try riding a motorcycle in Calgary AB rush hour traffic hahaha Of course I'm certain my plans to ride from Ireland to Russia is going to be an...interesting experience. Lol

Holy tits Nadine! That looks absolutely insane! I can't imagine having to try to figure out right from left in a high stress situation like that

WTF That seems awful

I would not done such things

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Hey Nadine, can you please change the place where u film? Im so used to see you all around the world, and seeing you in your room... doesn't inspires me :( u could film in the patio or something :D

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