AT#273 - Travel to Lebanon

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2011

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Sherry Ott again about a very recent trip to Lebanon. Sherry traveled to Lebanon as part of a program with a cultural exchange program with Geovisions which involved in a home stay. She stayed much of her visit in Beirut which at least used to be known as the “Paris of the Middle East”. Since that time Lebanon and Beirut in particular has come through a horrific civil war as well as a war with Israel. Now that peace has come again to the country Sherry could still see the scars from the prolonged conflict but also could enjoy the recovering city, the nightlife, shopping and food in Beirut. In March in Lebanon you can ski in the morning and go to the beach in the afternoon. She also had a chance to visit the historic city of Tripoli where she say the traditional souk and the ancient city of Sidon (Saida) which is over 6000 years old. 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 heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good
0:08.0	in my passport photo. The Amateur Traveler episode 273.
0:14.0	Today the Amateur Traveler goes to a place once called the Paris of the Middle East
0:19.0	as we travel to Lebanon. Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get into
0:37.1	today's interview I do have three news stories for you. First one two men try to reenact snakes on a plane by trying to bring 40 pythons on
0:47.0	board an Indonesia flight to Dubai. Seems to me to be a bad idea. It wasn't snakes but rather caterpillars that grounded a small plane in Australia because
0:58.0	larvae got inside of some of the sensitive instruments.
1:01.0	But even that is not as scary as in India where they're having a problem with fake pilots.
1:08.2	Ever since a female captain subsequently found to have faked her qualifications, landed a packed airliner on the nose instead of the rear wheels as she touched down in Goa, at least five other pilots working for Indian Airlines had been arrested for having bogus licenses.
1:25.1	I'm thinking you may want to check that.
1:27.2	For links to all of those stories check out the show notes at amateur traveler.com. I'd like to welcome back to the show Sherry Ott who is coming to us
1:36.8	from Otz world currently sitting on a beach in Sri Lanka but come to talk to us
1:42.3	about Lebanon.
1:44.2	Sherry, welcome back to the show.
1:46.2	Thank you very much for having me.
1:48.3	And Sherry again is one of those bloggers on my short list of friends who I've enjoyed meeting through this
1:54.4	podcast, Sherry what led you to Lebanon and Beirut? Have you not been following the
2:01.0	news this year? Don't you know that the entire Middle East is
2:04.3	someplace you shouldn't go? Do I sound like your mother? Yes actually. Well, strangely, this is the weird
2:12.2	fact that when I happened to be in Lebanon, which was the month of February,
2:16.0	it was really one of the only countries in the Middle East that had nothing going on as far as unrest.
2:23.9	And so it's really strange considering Lebanon's history
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