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amateur traveler episode 499 today the amateur traveler talks about silks, indigo dying, a Lucheng festival, and a bullfight

as we go to Guayjo in China. 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.

It's episode 499. No big festivities plan for

episode 500 but we still have lots and lots of travel stories ahead of us. But first

let's talk about Guayjo province of China. I'd like to welcome

back to the show Gina Chupka, travel writer and travel editor, who has come to talk to

us about a destination in China this time.

Gina, welcome back to the show.

Thanks, I'm happy to be back.

I say this time, it's Gina's second time on the show and you may remember her because she was

on, we think a year or so ago we didn't look

it up talking about Salzburg in Austria.

Yeah that was lost to the mists of time.

I can look it up and I will look it up and put a link in both the show

notes and in the lyrics of this episode. But you went someplace in China that we have not talked

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