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

in my passport photo

Oh no! Amateur Traveler episode episode 593. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about mountains and markets,

monasteries and songs, and gross national happiness as we go to the Kingdom of Bhutan.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. No sponsor today

so we'll jump straight to the episode and talk about Bhutan. I'd like to welcome back to the show Beth Whitman from the chief wanderer at

wanderlust and lipstick.com a friend a tour guide podcaster, and blogger and author, who has come to talk to us about Bhutan.

Beth, welcome back to the show.

Oh, thanks so much, Chris.

It's great to be here.

It's been quite a while, but if you look back back in the archives you'll find it. I think one other

episode we did together on solo travel to India. Ironically since the last show we did was about India.

Beth is one of the people I know who has fallen in love with that

country but then you also fell in love with a country just north of there. I

did indeed Bhutan, the kingdom of Bhutan. And you have been to Bhutan how many times now? Gosh I've only been

11 times. I remember hearing about this woman years ago and she had been to Bhutan

eight times and I thought that that was just amazing just incredible

and now here I'm looking back and I go back almost every year and it is a place that I have

fallen in love with and continue to return to.

Well and I said a tour guide we just want to get this up front that Beth was

first an author and blogger but now basically runs tours including to Bhutan especially

women's tours is the wanderlust and lipstick brand.

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