I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 377. Today the amateur traveler talks about

kangaroos and wine and great white sharks as we go to Southern Australia. Welcome to the

I'm going to go to sit in one more cafe.

I know that I should be heading home,

but maybe not, maybe not to the day.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. This episode of the

amateur traveler is again sponsored by Viatur. We're going to talk in this

episode about South Australia and there are in fact 31 different activities in South

Australia you can book through Vaiator including a two-day tour of Kangaroo Island

and you'll hear why soon you might want to think about doing that. To book and make sure that Amateur Traveler gets credit, go to amateur traveler.com.

Before we get into this week's episode, I do have three news stories for you. The first one is good news for Egypt tourism and that was that the new governor of Egypt's Luxor province quit. He had connections to a hardline Islamist group that killed 58 tourists there in 1997,

and because he was elected, the head of tourism for Egypt resigned.

And so this is good news for Egypt tourism unfortunately the bad news

for Egypt tourism that I think is really going to set them back quite a lot is that a

US citizen did die this week in violence in Egypt.

And the one thing I wanted to point out about this story is that he died because he was at a protest

in Alexandria.

He chose to go to that protest and try and film it and if you were in a country and there are protests and there is unrest

You don't have to go and that in this case proved to be a very unwise decision and I hope you make better ones.

Speaking of odd and possibly questionable decisions, there is an unusual amusement park now in

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