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

in my passport photo

Oh no!

Amateur Traveler, episode 667. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about cities and national parks and temples,

botanical gardens, and an orphanage for elephants as we go to the island nation of Sri Lanka.

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

Sri Lanka. I'd like to welcome the show Mike Powers of small of the road dot blog spot

dot c.a and Mike has come to talk to us about Sri Lanka Mike welcome to the show

Yeah, thanks very much, Chris.

Great to be on the show.

And what is your connection with Sri Lanka?

Just as a tourist, really.

Honestly, I didn't know much about Sri Lanka until just recently,

and the more we learned about it, just kind of got more and more we learned about it just kind of got more and

more interested in and decided to spend two weeks there while we were traveling

for three months in Asia.

Excellent. You mean you didn't know anything except for the other version we did with Amateur Traveler

in for a lot.

I actually did go back.

I think it was episode 202.

It's actually quite good and I did use that for my planning just so, you know. It's a very good episode.

And why should somebody go to Sri Lanka?

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