AT#1000 - Travel to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Hear about travel to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan and the annual Amateur Traveler trip as host Chris Christensen and guest Bill Abbott talk about a tour to 2 of the 5 'Stans in Central Asia. This week's show is supported by the new Smart Travel Podcast. Travel smarter — and spend less — with help from NerdWallet. Check out Smart Travel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Why should you go to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan? Chris says, "In this area, you can stand in these beautiful cities that date back over two thousand years. This is a trip through some of the great crossroads of world history: Persian empires, Silk Road merchants, Turkic tribes, Mongol armies, Timurid architects, Russian generals, Soviet planners, and two very different modern countries. This is not the edge of the map as we tend to view it, but historically, it's the middle of the map." In this episode of Amateur Traveler, we celebrate episode 1,000 with a trip through Central Asia to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The episode follows a G Adventures trip, Best of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, with a small group of Amateur Traveler listeners. ... https://amateurtraveler.com/travel-to-uzbekistan-and-turkmenistan/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:25.1	Amateur Traveller, episode 1,000. Today on Amateur Traveler Episode 1,000.
1:28.1	Today on Amateur Traveler, we talk about mosques, minarets, and madrasas, Persians, Parthians, and Plav.
1:35.7	As we go to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan with listeners of the show.
1:41.5	This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler.
1:46.2	Welcome to the 1000th episode.
1:54.9	Let's talk about Central Asia. This episode of Amateur Traveler is both a normal episode and a very special episode. It is a special episode because it is episode 1000. And I never thought I would get here. It is a normal
2:03.6	episode because I'm going to do what I've done for 99 other episodes, and that's talk about a
2:09.2	destination and a particular itinerary. To be honest, there have been more than a thousand episodes
2:14.4	of Amateur Traveler, but this is the thousandth standard episode.
2:18.5	There have been some special episodes that get other numbers.
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