AT#256 - Travel to the West Bank / Palestinian National Authority

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2010

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Matthew Long from LandLopers.com about his trip to the West Bank or the Palestinian Authority. Mathew did day trips into this emerging state from Jerusalem and tells us about visiting Jericho and Bethlehem, the city of David. The Dead Sea was a well known highlight while Hisham’s Palace proved to be an unexpected highlight. The area boasts monuments dating back to the Jewish patriarch’s such as Rachel’s Tomb, where childless woman come to pray, and the ruins of the community of Qumran, where the dead sea scrolls were found. Do you know what you should skip doing the morning before you go to the Dead Sea? Matthew will tell you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good
0:08.0	in my passport photo. Amateur Traveler episode 256. Today the amateur traveler talks about ancient
0:16.1	cities, tombs, palaces, and scrolls as we go to the West Bank and the
0:21.9	Palestinian Authority.
0:23.0	I know that I should be heading home,
0:29.0	but maybe not, maybe not today.
0:32.0	Welcome to the Amateur Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.
0:36.0	Before we get into this week's interview, I do have two news stories for you.
0:40.0	Probably the Travel News this week was dominated by the TSA and the controversy
0:46.3	over the full body scanners, but they came out with a lesser known document this week, which
0:51.8	is a document talks about which foods you should not
0:55.8	travel with over the holidays and mostly these are obvious things they are things that are
1:00.4	either liquids or gelatinous in nature and they want to remind you to put them into your
1:04.7	checked bags or ship them ahead of time or leave them at home and they're cranberry sauce and
1:09.3	cologne creamy dips gravy jams jellies lotions all sorts of things that are obvious, but the thing
1:14.4	that they miss that you should never travel with over the holidays is fruit cake.
1:20.0	And then the second story is a sad one.
1:22.3	A couple missed their honeymoon because the dog ate their passport,
1:26.6	or at least ate the husband's passport.
1:28.6	Newlyweds Eric Mann and Brooke Blue
1:31.5	missed their paid-in-advised beach holiday vacation in Cancun,
1:35.2	according to USA Today, and they're out $1,500 because the dog 8-man's passport.
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