AT#205 - Travel to Nepal and Everest

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2009

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Jon Miller of the Rest of Everest podcast about his journeys in Nepal. Jon originally went to Nepal as part of a film he was shooting on an Everest expedition, but as Jon tells it you come for the mountain but fall in love with the people and the culture. Jon describes Kathmandu with is various temples or stupas like Swayambhunath (the monkey temple) and Boudhanath with crowds of people performing a kora around them. He tells us places to get a good meal in Thamel (the tourist district) and suggests a day trip to the well preserved city of Bhaktapur. After Katmandu Jon tells us about trekking and also hiking up to Everest basecamp where the altitude can be very challenging (and Jon lives up at 6000 feet at home in Colorado). 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.
0:07.0	Looking real good in my passport photo.
0:11.0	Amateur Traveler episode 205.
0:15.0	Today the Amateur Traveler talks about stupas, corras, and altitude sickness as we go to Nepal. Nephal. Welcome to the city one more cafe.
0:25.0	I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not to the
0:31.0	day.
0:32.0	Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get into
0:36.9	today's interview I do have three news stories for you. The first one you
0:41.0	probably heard about already and that's the Delta Airlines flight that
0:44.8	over-frew their target, the Twin Cities by 150 miles.
0:49.2	There's not a lot to add to the story that hasn't already been said except that remember the word
0:53.4	delta means the distance between what your expected results are and your
0:59.4	measured results, Delta Airlines.
1:02.3	And in the second news story this results, Delta Airlines.
1:03.7	And in the second news story, this is a bit of a news of the weird sort of story.
1:07.7	There is a Mexican human rights activist who has been detained by the U.S. not because he asked for political asylum but because
1:17.5	he expressed that he might be in some danger and therefore was automatically entered as if he had asked for political asylum.
1:27.3	He says he doesn't want it, he may get it anyway or he may not, but until they decide he's going
1:32.2	to be held in the US. I don't get it.
1:36.0	And our third story is a much more easy to understand story.
1:39.0	Virgin America is planning on doing an experiment where they bored the people on the plane who have no carry-on luggage
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