There's more than one way to get off the beaten path to explore the history and beauty of distant lands,

like diving into the Mediterranean to explore the underwater ruins of ancient cities and shipwrecks.

You can go inside the shipwreck, you can go into those little rooms. You can still see how it was the day it was sank.

Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. Today on Travel with Rick Steeves, we plunge into the world of underwater archaeology.

And we explore Eastern Turkey, a dry landscape that many believe once lay under the waters

where Noah's Ark cruised, and where they sell a wonderful local ice cream.

It's made with the goat's milk and there are the crushed roots of the wild orchid flowers picked

from the tourist mountains.

Plus adventurer Richard Grant tells us about his crazy trip into swamps and

dodgy Warsaw's Nations in East Africa in search of the fabled source of the Nile.

You think your listeners are going to sign up for this.

Let's delve into adventures far away from the tourist crowds in Turkey and East Africa

on today's travel with Rick Steeves.

We're venturing outside the usual bubble that insulates tourists from the risks, real or

imagined that come with visiting exotic places well off the beaten path on today's travel

with Rick Steeves.

We'll start out with tips for going beneath the surface of the Mediterranean, where a dive can

take you into the realm of ancient mariners.

Then we head inland into eastern Turkey, where you'll find some of Anatolia's most surprising

sites and people whose way of life hasn't changed much for thousands of years.

Well, if you don't count all the satellite dishes.

And we'll end up with adventurer Richard Grant

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