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🗓️ 16 May 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:00.0 | I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good |
0:08.0 | in my passport photo. |
0:10.4 | The amateur traveler episode 705. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about mosques, a magnetic |
0:18.2 | hill and malls, Nabateans, hospitality, and the edge of the world as we go to Saudi Arabia. |
0:27.0 | Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about |
0:36.7 | Saudi Arabia. I'd like to welcome to the show Flo Mueller who's come to us from Munich, Germany, but come to talk to us about Saudi Arabia. |
0:48.0 | Flo, welcome to the show. |
0:49.0 | Thank you, Chris, happy to be here. |
0:51.0 | Saudi Arabia is not a place that, well actually it's a place |
0:55.2 | that a lot of people have gone on Hajj. It's one of the most popular travel |
0:59.8 | destinations in the world, but for people who are not Muslims, it is a relatively new destination. |
1:08.0 | Very true, yeah, it just opened up, it's towards Lisa in the end of September. So everything is very new there and for me was the |
1:16.4 | interesting part of really a go to a country where tourism really hasn't been a part of the history in the last years. |
1:23.0 | I guess that answers the question of why you went to Saudi Arabia. |
1:27.3 | Was there more to the story than just it opened up and the opportunity was available? |
1:31.7 | I mean, Saudi Arabia, there much so much to talk about I mean first of all landscape I think we always think about at least to me it was okay |
1:39.0 | Saudi Arabia desert oil and camels that's the first words that came to my mind. But the landscape |
1:46.1 | was there is so much more to see. I mean you have the sea, you have the mountains, |
1:50.2 | you have the oasis, then history-wise. I mean a lot of ancient kingdoms coming from |
1:55.2 | there, the history of Islam being from there, but for me what was one of the biggest |
1:59.4 | reasons why I went to Saudi Arabia was the hospitality of the people. I heard such amazing things about that and I've been around in the Middle East and I wanted to experience it for myself and as soon as I heard they opened up the doors for tourists, I said, okay, I'm going to jump on that wagon and I want to see it for myself to really see how it is. |
2:18.0 | Excellent. And what kind of an itinerary are you going to recommend for us? |
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