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While backpackers in Europe (or anywhere else for that matter) never mention Ukraine as a destination, I aim to convince you of the experiences awaiting you there.

One of my closest friends and I are huddled together, shaking, trying not vomit from the nerves. Yes, we’re both grown men, and there are girls our age present. Why are we doing this? Because we’re in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, stuck in a snowstorm on a paved road with no guardrails, sliding around turns in a van without snow tires 1000 feet above the valley below. We didn’t sign up for this.