AT#882 - Travel to the Island of Malta

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Hear about travel to the island nation of Malta as Chris Christensen, the Amateur Traveler, tells about a recent week-long trip to the island at the center of the Mediterranean Sea. https://amateurtraveler.com/travel-to-the-island-of-malta/ Why should you visit Malta? Malta is an amazing island country with a rich history and spectacular scenery. The one-week itinerary for Malta includes the following highlights: Sunday: Take a harbor cruise around Valletta. Pick up a 7-day bus pass, if you are getting around by public transportation Explore Valletta a UNESCO city, and visit the Upper Barrakka Monday: Take a guided tour of Valletta Underground, exploring where the residents of Valletta took shelter from WWII bombing Visit St John’s Co-cathedral. Lunch in Birgu Visit Mdina, the old capital, also known as the "silent city." Tuesday: See the colorful Marsaxlokk harbor and Għar Dalam Cave with its pigmy elephant and hippo skeletons Visit Ħal Tarxien, an open-air megalithic temple site. Visit Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, a prehistoric underground necropolis and UNESCO site. Explore Fort Saint Angelo in Birgu. Wednesday: Visit Ħaġar Qim and Mnajdra, UNESCO megalithic temple sites. Explore the Blue Grotto (weather-dependent). Visit Mdina, including the cathedral Stop at a museum dedicated to the Roman Villa in Rabat. Explore St Paul’s Catacombs in Rabat. Thursday: Travel to Gozo, and stay in Victoria. Visit Ggantija Temples, another UNESCO site and megalithic temple. Explore Citadella fortress in Victoria. Have dinner in St George's Square Friday: Visit San Blas Tower and Ramla Beach in Gozo. Return to Malta in the afternoon. Saturday: Move to Fortellessa and explore Valletta. Visit Upper Barrakka, Lower Barrakka, and Fort St Elmo. Relax in the city and soak in the atmosphere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amateur Traveler, episode 882. Today Amateur Traveler talks about Knights and Wald cities,
0:07.0	Megolithic temples and underground cities, beaches, boats and balconies,
0:12.0	as we go back to the country of Malta.
0:16.0	This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler.
0:19.0	Let's talk about Malta.
0:20.0	No guest for this episode of Amateur Traveler, but I want to tell you about my recent trip in November of 2023 to Malta.
0:31.0	Now, we've done two other shows on Malta before one 15 years ago so that
0:36.2	one hardly counts but one more recently than that a couple years ago in fact I
0:40.3	just replayed that show while I was in Malta because I wasn't planning on
0:44.6	doing this episode. But now that I've written four blog posts and about 9,000
0:50.9	words on Malta it feels like maybe I in fact have something to say about this
0:56.2	pretty cool destination. So I ended up going to Malta because I was planning on
1:02.0	going to Africa in the fall for a T-Bex
1:06.0	conference, a travel blog exchange conference that got cancelled so I ended up with
1:09.9	some extra weeks of vacation that I'd allocated. I wanted to go someplace new that I'd never been,
1:16.5	but also I was targeting someplace in Europe, and someplace that you could see in a week, and Malta is one of those places that you can have a pretty amazing itinerary
1:27.0	with a week-long trip.
1:29.0	So let's start with that with why you should go to Malta.
1:32.0	The thing I love about Malta is the history.
1:36.5	And if those of you have listened to the show, no I'm a history buff, but we have history going back to Stone Age tombs. Plus we've got walled cities like Valletta that I think are some of the most beautiful cities in Europe,
1:50.0	rugged coastline, water activities if they're there in the summer, which I wasn't, plenty to do,
1:58.0	and just a really beautiful country.
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