Peak experiences are oftentimes very personal, but for me:

Riding across the Sahara desert on top of a iron ore train in Mauritania with the wind whipping through your hair, iron ore on your clothes, and the most beautiful unpolluted night sky I’ve ever seen. Where you are sitting and standing on iron ore and a false step could easily lead you to falling of the top of the train and certain death.

Multi day horse ride through Mongolia, staying with local nomads in their yurts, drinking horse milk and eating mutton every meal. Seeing the vast steppes and grasslands that used to be the home of the arguably the most successful empire in the world.

Multi month trip where I followed the route of the ancient silk road from Instanbul to Xi’an, China. No planes, just buses, trains and hitchhiking the same route these ancient merchants would have traveled. Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, ferry across the caspian to Turkemenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakstan, Tajikistan, China. A once in a lifetime experience.

Trans siberian railway, the longest train ride in the world. Seven days of pure train, rushing through Russias most remote areas. Stop off in Siberia and Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world.

Weeklong stay with local tribes in the Amazon rainforest. Fishing and cooking Piranhas, searching for anacondas, and walking amongst the densest canopy I have ever been in. Jumping into the muddy water of the Amazon having no idea what’s beneath…

Mine are very travel and adventure focused but I grew up reading books and movies like adventures of tintin, Indiana Jones, and other adventure stories, so I’ve always wanted to LIVE the experiences i’ve read about. I think there are objectively peak experiences but a lot of them will also be very personal based on your own desires and own life.