A Search for the World's Most Quiet Places
Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler
Condé Nast Traveler
4.4 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Is there anywhere left in the world that is truly quiet? This episode, we seek to find out, with Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler’s Global Digital Director, and writer Yulia Denisyuk joining Lale in the studio to talk about their favorite quiet places—from the sprawling deserts of Wadi Rum, Jordan, to the Makgadikgadi salt pans of Botswana. And if you’re still left wanting more inspiration for finding stillness on our noisy planet, check out our fully list of quiet places on cntraveler.com after listening.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Lalei Arakoglu, and on this episode of Women Who Travel, we're saluting quietitude. |
| 0:12.0 | We're in search not of silence, though, but quiet spaces around the world. |
| 0:16.0 | And with me in the studio is my dear colleague and friend, Artie Menon, |
| 0:20.0 | global digital director at Condonast Traveler. |
| 0:23.4 | She's put together a list of 50 tranquil places to discover near and far from home. |
| 0:28.3 | Hi, Lally. |
| 0:29.4 | Hello, Artie. |
| 0:30.4 | Good to be back. I've got my quiet voice. |
| 0:32.7 | Well, I was going to say, well, we did, before we started recording, we were worried we might send people to sleep if we're too quiet and too mellow, which isn't what we're like in the office, I'd say. |
| 0:41.8 | We're quite the opposite. |
| 0:43.6 | We're the mouthy ones. |
| 0:45.5 | Artie, tell me just kind of like the download on this project. |
| 0:49.8 | Okay. |
| 0:50.4 | For the purposes of this package, I think we've been talking about quiet travel and its sibling silent travel as a rising travel trend for a while now. |
| 1:02.8 | And I think that people are really craving getting away from the platter of cities and finding their, whatever their version of quiet is. |
| 1:13.2 | So we thought it would be a really great time to sort of put together an editorial package |
| 1:17.4 | that honored this need in so many of us to find quiet and stillness. |
| 1:25.1 | And joining us from Chicago is our regular traveler contributor, Yulia Dennis Yuc. |
| 1:31.6 | Hi, Yulia. |
| 1:33.0 | Hi, friends. |
| 1:34.0 | So good to be with you today. |
| 1:35.8 | I'm going to launch right into things because I want to know where you go to find this quiet. |
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