455 Havana; Ken Burns National Parks; Great American Places
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Rick shares notes on visiting Havana with Cuban travel expert Christopher P. Baker, then filmmaker Ken Burns discusses his documentary series celebrating the National Park Service's centennial. And Smithsonian historian Brent D. Glass recommends places to visit that make American history really come alive.
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| 0:00.0 | After heading up the Smithsonian Museum of American History, Brent Glass has concluded |
| 0:05.1 | that there are five basic types of historical sites you can visit to spice up a great American |
| 0:09.9 | road trip. |
| 0:10.9 | The themes that are important to me and I believe help us understand who we are as Americans |
| 0:16.5 | are freedom, war, innovation, diversity, and landscape. Filmmaker Ken Burns helps us appreciate how important America's national parks are just in time to celebrate the Park Service Centennial. |
| 0:29.0 | If there were no national parks, the Grand Canyon would be lined by mansions of the rich. Without the national parks, |
| 0:35.7 | Yellowstone would be called Geyser World. |
| 0:38.8 | And get reacquainted with Havana as it gears up for a game-changing increase in American visitors. |
| 0:44.0 | Havana is an international city. |
| 0:46.0 | This place on the eve of the revolution was the wealthiest tropical city in the world, |
| 0:50.0 | so it has so many architectural glories. |
| 0:53.0 | We're learning more about ourselves and our neighbors in the hour ahead. |
| 0:56.0 | It's Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:00.0 | National parks have been called America's Best Idea. |
| 1:03.0 | Ken Burns shows us why in his landmark National Parks documentary series. |
| 1:08.0 | He joins us in just a bit to help celebrate the Centennial of the National Park Service. |
| 1:13.0 | We'll also get inspired to see firsthand many of the important sites that help define the American experience. |
| 1:19.0 | Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. |
| 1:20.0 | Thanks to the Obama administration relaxing restrictions on travel to Cuba, I was able to get my first look at our neighbor island last January. |
| 1:28.0 | Christopher P. Baker's been keeping us up to date about Cuba on travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:33.4 | And that includes the changing rules that are allowing more Americans to travel there under |
| 1:37.3 | a set of people-to-people requirements. |
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