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 722. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about Seljuks and Parthians and Mongols,

a wedding palace, caravan surise, and a flaming crater.

As we go to Turkmenistan.

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

about Turkmenistan. I'd like to welcome back to the show Justin Barnes from Justin and Crystal.com and

Justin has come to talk to us about Turkmenistan Justin welcome back to the

show thank you thanks for having me back.

And I say welcome back to the show.

Justin was on episode 629 about the Big Island of Hawaii.

This is a very different destination we're talking about today. What's your

connection with Turkmenistan? We travel there on a trip to four of the five stands.

There's the five stands, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan,

Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kurdistan.

And we went to four of them on a trip.

And Turkmenistan is certainly the most interesting of the bunch in terms of how

foreign it was. I mean it minimizes foreign in every sense of a word.

Well and I was very interested in doing the show because it's been a long time since we've talked

about Turkmenistan and also because before COVID hit we had a amateur traveler trip planned to the stands,

not to all five to two, I think of them.

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