AT#169 - Travel to Armenia

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2009

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to David Dougherty about his recent trip to the small country of Armenia. David talks about view of Mount Ararat (just over the border in Turkey), monasteries and churches, riding the packed minivan buses (marshrutkas), meeting locals with a shared interest, the food, the legends and some of the history (the Armenian genocide). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags packed on a roll.
0:03.0	I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go.
0:06.0	Looking real good in my passport photo.
0:10.0	Oh no.
0:11.0	Amateur Traveler episode 169.
0:14.0	Today the Amateur Traveler goes to Armenia.
0:17.0	Hear about ancient churches, gorgeous views,
0:20.0	and little tiny packed buses today in the amateur traveler.
0:24.0	I know that I should be heading home
0:29.0	but maybe not, maybe not so the day.
0:32.0	Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.
0:36.0	Before we get into today's interview, I do have two news stories for you.
0:40.0	I'm assuming you're a bad news, then good news news crowd so we'll start with the bad news
0:45.2	at least 340 people were sickened this week on a cruise ship in Brazil.
0:51.6	According to the story that I saw in MS NBC, hundreds of passengers on a
0:55.8	Swiss-owned cruise ship were stricken with severe vomiting and diarrhea caused by a mysterious
1:01.2	ailment. Brazilian health officials said on
1:04.0	Thursday, that'd be Thursday January 8th.
1:07.0	There's certainly always some risk of getting that many people in a contained space
1:11.0	like a cruise ship, but that's actually pretty unusual to have that many people get
1:15.0	sick on a single cruise.
1:17.4	But then in the good news category, 2008 was one of the safest years on record for air travel.
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