Just walk everywhere, get lost, try to find your way, talk to people, learn from them.

And if the language is a barrier, broken English always works everywhere.

And the best language is smile, smile at people and smile back at you.

Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast.

It's Monday the 2nd of June, and that was the voice of

Arvinda Bahal. My friend Arvi, he is a great traveller, 80 years old, of American nationality and

Indian heritage, and he's visited every country in the world. I always enjoy talking to him about his travel philosophy,

and I met him as he'd stepped from the plane from Uzbekistan. I'd driven the whole Silk Road from

Afghanistan to Kashgar and China, but this was my first time to Faragana Valley. And it's a beautiful place.

The weather was very nice. The people were very friendly, even though they couldn't speak English,

and I couldn't speak Uzbek. But I had a great time.

I want to ask you, from your 80 years of experience, where you have most enjoyed as a country to visit. I have a favorite city. I enjoy going

to Istanbul. I like Istanbul very much. See, I travel for traditions and cultures. I prefer going to

African countries. I camp out with the tribes and learn how they think and how they live and how happy they are.

We in the Western Word, when I talk to my friends and tell them, I've seen people newly born

kids to teenagers running around naked, happy, no cares in the word.

And when I talk to my friends in the Western Word and they say, oh, well, they don't know what

they're missing.

And I personally feel we don't know what we're missing. But otherwise, I prefer, I like going to China, India,

because our culture and tradition goes back, 5000 BC. Even though I was born in India, every time I go to

India, I learn and see something different. As well as the countries that you most enjoy visiting,

there must mean one or two that you

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