Nicolás Pasquali He was imprisoned in Iraq and was kidnapped in Mauritania. Today he knows the 143 countries of the world.
At 32, Nicolás Pasquali became the first Argentine to visit the 193 member countries of the United Nations Organization (also added Palestine, Vatican and Taiwan). On February 20, 2025, North Korea stepped on, the last one that was missing in his list, becoming the first Argentine to achieve it and the eighth youngest in the world to fulfill it.
Nicolás explained that traveling is more than setting foot in the territory to add it to a “supermarket” list. During the journey, he lived with hundreds of local families, tried unimaginable meals, pretended to belong to certain religions to survive, He suffered a kidnapping in Mauritania and was arrested for three days in Iraq.
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“In my house we had a great globe in the living room, one day I approached and began to explore it. I realized that there were places I had never heard, such as the Euphrates or the Tigris river. I flew so much that exercise that, from there in there Encyclopedia, “Pasqualli explained how his interest in knowing the world was.
I was flashed to know different types of cultures, populations, landscapes and ways of life. He asked me questions like why in different places people had other skin colors … They are things that as a boy, when one wants to understand the world, they generate intrigue, he added.
How was Nicolás Pasquali’s first trip
Nicolás shared how his first experience was traveling: “During the summer holidays of the faculty, I went on a trip to my family’s house in Santa Fe. My cousin wanted to go to Tucumán and invited me. I told him“ Dale ”and we got on a long distance micro Ecuador and Colombia, until I got to Venezuela, where I had to undertake the return due to political conflicts under the presidency of Nicolás Maduro “.
The weirdest thing that Pasquali ate on the trips was “mono brain, without knowing it.” “We were in China, in a still life with a friend, and he told me that I was going to surprise me with a surprise dish. I finished eating and felt nothing very strange, but at the exit he told me what it was and vomited in the middle of the street.”
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However, he said he chooses Argentina before any other country.
How will the life of Nicolás Pasquali follow?
“I want to make a documentary telling my experiences. I would like all those who cannot also know the cultures, people and worldviews to which I approached traveling. In addition, I want to serve as an example for anyone who has a dream and knows that it can achieve it with sufficient dedication and planning,” he said.
Source: Ambito
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