Who is Stanito?

A life built on adventures — and a space to tell them.

I'm a girl with a life built on adventures and decided to create a space where I could tell you about the amazing and most unusual travel adventures I enjoy every year.

Through this blog I will tell you all about traveling to misunderstood places, countries that you never hear or read about, dwellings where superstitions play a key role, mythological spots where amazing things allegedly happened, mysterious regions and the discovery of great gems.

I write and display my articles and photos two times a week and occasionally I am advertised on magazines, newspapers, travel websites and radio stations.

Born in 1983, I am an Italian-Chilean travel writer who began traveling as a little child mainly in Latin America and Europe and flew for the first time alone across the Atlantic at the age of 5. Even though I was very young, I had tremendous fun on an airplane alone.

I've always been exposed to different cultures given my mixed background and having my family relatives spread a bit all over the world.

My biggest passion: the obscure

Since I was a kid I have been interested in those countries and places that sounded mysterious, strange and hidden, their culture, history and traditions. This is how my passion for dictatorships and unrecognised countries started. I've always felt that those countries that are very much advertised and commercialised have simply too much information already published.

Whenever I have free time I just go on the internet and start researching on new different concepts: micronations, unrecognised territories, disputed land, dictatorships. Dictatorships are always different because their rulers always make up their own supreme rules and such make the country a lot more curious and fun to explore. So far I have been able to visit North Korea, the Republic of Molossia and Iran — and there are plenty more to discover…

Where I am

Left Mexico. At the moment I'm on a Shinkansen train, exploring the remoteness of Japan, diving deep into the off the beaten paths of this wonderful country…

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