521a Berner Oberland; T.T. Williams' Utah; The Philippines
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Rick Steves
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🗓️ 28 March 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Author Terry Tempest Williams explains why she purchased oil leases near her home in the Utah desert to protest removing protections in a national monument. Travel writer Kiki Deere tells us why the Philippines is one of her favorite countries to visit. And a tour guide who mapped hiking trails in Switzerland's Lauterbrunnen Valley talks about the area's Alpine thrills.
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| 0:00.0 | The things you'll see when you hike in the Swiss Alps. If you time it right, you can even watch the cows being paraded down from their grazing meadows. |
| 0:09.0 | They've got their bells on and really the bigger the bell is, the more prestigious that cow is. |
| 0:13.4 | They're all pedagreed. |
| 0:14.7 | For warmer vacations, Kiki deer says you can't beat the Philippines. |
| 0:19.1 | It has some of the best diving in the world. |
| 0:22.0 | You can go swimming with well sharks, you can trek in age-old rice terraces, |
| 0:27.6 | you can even hike up active volcanoes. |
| 0:29.9 | And Terry Tempest Williams explains how she bought oil leases on federal land near her home next to Arches National Park at rock bottom prices. |
| 0:38.4 | We purchased them at a discount of $1.50 an acre. |
| 0:44.0 | If you can imagine that, our public lands for sale |
| 0:47.0 | to lease oil and gas for less than a cup of coffee. |
| 0:51.0 | What's the Utah worth to you? Let's explore together in the hour |
| 0:54.7 | head on Travel with Rick Steves. It's looking like the government has |
| 1:02.2 | declared war on America's public lands. |
| 1:05.0 | At least that's how Terry Tempest Williams sees the Trump Executive Order that rescinds federal protections in her home state of Utah. |
| 1:13.0 | She tells us what's at stake, |
| 1:14.6 | and the innovative ways she became |
| 1:16.8 | what she calls a conservation buyer |
| 1:19.2 | to prevent drilling near where she lives |
| 1:21.6 | just outside of Moab. |
| 1:23.0 | We'll hear her story in just a bit on today's travel with Rick Steve's. |
| 1:28.0 | And a British travel writer tells us why the Philippines is one of her favorite places anywhere in the world. |
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