357 Chachapoyas, Peru; Embedded; Exploring Andalucía

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Rick Steves

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🗓️ 8 March 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week, we'll learn about the pre-Inca sites of the northern Peru cloud forest, where the tourist crowds of Cuzco are hundreds of miles away. Also, a radio journalist describes what it was like to be embedded with the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he got to observe the day to day lives of soldiers in the green zone, and guides from Spain explain how the southern region of Andalucía is a soulful home to many of the time-honored traditions of Spain.

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0:00.0	To avoid the crowds that put a stress on Machu Picchu, consider a trip to the Andean Cloud Forest in the north of Peru.
0:07.0	Folks have always known that there was something there, but it's only in the last 20 years that they've discovered that it was a whole citadel occupying the entire top of a mountain.
0:16.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. Coming up, travel experts take us to the roads less traveled in the Andes.
0:21.0	Guides from Spain take us for a deeper look at what we can discover in Andalusia.
0:26.0	And never be afraid to explore, because Andalusia is not just Cordova's just Cordova's
0:30.0	a sébilla.
0:31.0	You've got wonderful regions.
0:32.0	I love Jain, which we can consider as the Olive Oil World Capital.
0:37.0	And a freelance journalist reports back from Afghanistan on day-to-day life between skirmishes for the troops.
0:43.0	And how when they were in Iraq they got to hang out inside one of Saddam Hussein's former
0:47.2	palaces.
0:48.2	And there were these huge PlayStation video games
0:52.8	inside a gorgeous palace.
0:54.8	Embed yourself in the hour ahead.
0:56.8	It's travel with Rick Steve's.
0:58.8	When you hear seductive guitar music,
1:02.4	when you smell the saffron and seafood being cooked up in massive bowls of
1:06.5	piaum, and when you bump into a colony of sunburned Brits baking on the beach, you know
1:12.0	you're in the deep south of Spain.
1:14.8	Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steves, travel experts from Spain guide us into the classic
1:19.3	region of Andalusia.
1:21.9	And a journalist shares with us what he's chronicled about the day-to-day realities
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