84 Afghanistan for Travelers and Adventure Cycling to Laos

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🗓️ 5 March 2007

⏱️ 53 minutes

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You can't get much further off the beaten path than travelling to Afghanistan or Laos. We'll hear from Central Asia expert Paul Clammer who will give us a reality check on what travelers can expect from Afghanistan. Also, Willie Weir returns with more tales from his recent bike adventures thru Northern Thailand into Laos. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Rick Steeves. When you talk about traveling off the beaten path in Asia, it doesn't get much more rough and tumble than Afghanistan.
0:08.0	While coalition troops are busy with their work, there are actually people traveling through Afghanistan, and travel writer
0:14.8	Paul Clammer tells us how and why.
0:17.4	It's a fantastic wild anarchy.
0:21.0	It's Afghanistan.
0:22.0	Also, we'll check in with adventure cyclist Willie Weir. He'll bring us details on his recent bike trip from Bangkok into Laos.
0:28.0	Willie brings us fresh stories from the road and explains how different things are in Laos compared to its more
0:33.4	developed neighbor Thailand. It takes almost more effort to stay on the beaten
0:38.0	path in Laos. It's just that opposite. There's that there's that one main
0:41.4	road and outside of it you are you are literally off the
0:44.6	beat path. We'll also touch on the serious matter of all those landmines
0:48.4	that remain in both Afghanistan and Laos. We're about to find out what a
0:52.4	bumpy ride is all about and why some travelers
0:55.0	wouldn't have it any other way. It's Travel with Rick Steeves.
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1:12.0	American Airlines knows why you fly.
1:15.0	Paul Klammer joins us for an intrepid traveler's guide to Afghanistan,
1:19.0	and later Willie Weir brings us tales from his adventurous bike trip from Thailand to Laos.
1:25.0	Its Extreme Travel Adventures on today's Travel with Rick Steeves and today we're traveling to Afghanistan. Really Afghanistan. Tourists go to Afghanistan, travelers go to Afghanistan. And I'm talking with a man
1:45.7	who's writing the first edition of the Afghanistan guidebook published by Lonely Planet.
1:50.8	He's already written the Afghanistan chapter for the Central Asia guidebook by Lonely Planet. Paul Clammer joins us from England.
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