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 528. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about

monasteries and stupas, glaciers and Everest base camp as we go to Tibet.

I know that I should be heading home

but maybe not, maybe not today.

Welcome to the amateur traveler, I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about Tibet.

I'd like to welcome to the show Lee Ditis Felt and Travis Bingaman who have come to talk to us

about Tibet.

Lee and Travis, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

Thanks for having us.

Yes.

You're welcome. So we're talking about Tibet, which is at least as far as China is concerned, a part of China, we won't get into the politics of it necessarily at least to start out, but why should we go to Tibet? There's

spiritual reasons, there's scenic reasons and I guess you could also say

intellectual reasons why he would want to travel to Tibet.

Lee, feel...

The first two I think are fairly obvious, the Buddhism influence, the amazing mountains and monasteries and monks and those sort of things.

You say intellectual reasons though when I don't know where you're going.

When you are in a place like Tibet, there is such a depth and brevity to Buddhism that you really can't

understand unless you're really experiencing it firsthand.

So that is the intellectual component for me.

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