Off the Beaten Path: St. Helena with Lee Abbamonte

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🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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One of the world's most remote islands is now within reach — naturally, Lee Abbamonte, one of the world's most-traveled people was among the first to visit by air. In this very special "Off the Beaten Path" episode of Miles Away, host Zach Honig sits down with Lee as they explore St. Helena's newfound tourist appeal, including attractions, hotels and the local culture, and why you might want to book a trip soon.

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0:00.0	We're back with a very special episode of miles away. Today we're going to dig into our first off-the-beaten path destination, St Helena. This is your host
0:14.6	Zach Honeg and I'm talking with travel expert Lee Ebe Monte to show you how to
0:18.5	make this outdoor paradise more accessible.
0:24.7	So today on miles away I am sitting down with the most traveled man that I know.
0:29.6	Probably the most traveled man that any of his friends know as well.
0:32.4	It's Lee Abamante. How many countries
0:34.6	have you been to Lee? All of them, my man? All of them. So how many countries is that in total?
0:39.4	Well, technically there's 193 countries, meaning UN member states, states so sovereign nations and then if you
0:44.9	include territories and unique destinations it's 321. So have you been to all
0:49.0	321? Well I've been to 321 and 325. Okay so what are the four that are left to go?
0:53.8	They're the really romantic destinations of Tristan de Cunia,
0:57.8	Diego Garcia, Wake Island, and the very sought after island of Yemen called Socotra.
1:04.4	Okay.
1:05.9	Of those, which do you have plans to visit at some point?
1:09.1	Well, if the Saudis will stop bombing the hell out of the amennies. I would go to
1:13.7	Succotra. I actually was supposed to go there in April. The trip got canceled
1:17.0	obviously because of the war. Wake Island and Diego Garcia, if you could talk to
1:21.0	your boy Donald and get me some permission from the government to go,
1:25.3	I'd love to go to those two and then Tristan de Koney will be the last one I go to if I can make the other three
1:30.0	because it's just a nightmare to get to. It's like six days on a boat each way from South Africa and if I'm going to put myself through that torture it's going to be the last one.
1:38.0	Speaking of six days on a boat, if you want to go to St. Helena in the past, there's an airport now, but if you wanted to go years ago, how would you get there?
1:45.6	Yeah, exactly. I was literally desiring to go there for at least 10 years, and it used to be something called the RMS St. Helena which was basically a cargo ship more or less but they took passengers and you could sleep on it and it was five days from South Africa each way. The only other way you could do it would be a repositioning
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