#747 - Un-Tours Of Myanmar Offer Adventure and Unpredictability
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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His friends kept asking him to lead tours of Myanmar, and he finally agreed. But he wasn’t going to stick to the usual sights—these ‘un-tours’ would be anything but typical.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by National Rail. |
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| 0:39.2 | Is there an unusual part of the world? |
| 0:41.5 | Or even your own country, state, province or city that you enjoy showing off? |
| 0:46.2 | If so, maybe, just maybe, you might be interested in starting your own part-time tour business. |
| 0:51.3 | That's what happened with today's featured case study. |
| 0:53.6 | He had found a way to make a life for himself by working remotely so he could travel, |
| 0:57.2 | living in and visiting lots of different countries, and one of them that he loved in particular was Myanmar, |
| 1:01.9 | also known as Burma. |
| 1:03.2 | His friends kept asking him to lead tours there and he finally agreed. |
| 1:06.5 | But as an off-the-beaten path traveler, he didn't want to stick to the usual sites, |
| 1:10.4 | so his untruths, as he called them, would be anything but typical. |
| 1:14.0 | These untruths offer adventure and unpredictability. |
| 1:16.8 | They also earn him an extra $7,000 every time he does one. |
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