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

in my passport photo

15 amateur traveler episode 781. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about temples and

festivals, fishing boats and palaces, striped hyenas, and the Asiatic lion as we go to Gujarat, India.

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

Gujarat. I'd like to welcome back to the show James Schomburg who has come back to the show James Schaumburg, who has come back to the show to talk

about Gujarat India. James, welcome back to the show. Thanks Chris. This is very

different to the last two times I've come to speak.

I said welcome back.

I think you were on five minutes ago as I recall.

It feels like that.

I almost never do this.

Bring somebody back right away but James did such a great job

and pitched me such interesting places that you know that's what happens that's the danger of making a good pitch.

Oh, thank you. And Gucharod was not a place that I could even have put on a map in India.

Where are we talking about?

So it's in the far western central to northern western border bordering Pakistan.

So Pakistan's its western border and the southern borders the Arabian Sea and the states that people

probably do now a lot better that it attaches to Rajasthan and where a lot of

people go for the first time is Indian visitors and also Maharashtra, which is where Mumbai is the capital.

So it's actually close to some of the big hitting states in terms of tourism but it's very different geographically it's

very different feel to the rest of India I've been to India nine times to travel and

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