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Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

The Unseen Africa w/ Francis Tapon

Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Travis Sherry

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Society & Culture:places & Travel

4.6890 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2019

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

Joining me today is the author of one of my favorite books, The Hidden Europe, creator, producer, star and everything else of The Unseen Africa, and a man who has probably had more adventures in the last 3 days than I’ve had in my entire life, Francis Tapon of WanderLearn Podcast. I am so happy to have him back on the show since we last spoke almost exactly 4 years ago or 275 episodes but who is counting. Today, we are diving deep into The Unseen Africa project which includes a book and a video series and is a must see for everyone!   Check out the full show notes

Transcript

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0:00.0

And in the Antra, I picked up 3,000 hitchhikers.

0:03.6

And so some days I had 30 hitchhikers in one day.

0:07.4

I had a one point, like a dozen people in my car at once.

0:11.3

And they were on the roof, they were hanging on the side because I had a little, like it was a

0:16.2

step platform or something like that. So I had the windows rolled down, they were holding onto the

0:20.4

window and sitting on the platform. to the extra pack of peanuts

0:28.8

of the podcast the extra pack of peanuts travel podcast episode

0:31.2

three seventy seven lassotho episode 377 Lissotho, which if you don't know where that is, it's a country completely surrounded by South Africa, is the only country on earth to lie completely above 1,000 meters in elevation.

0:47.0

Man, I would have thought that it would be Nepal. I consider myself pretty well traveled and I also consider myself a minimalist

0:56.6

packer but today's guest Francis Tapp on puts me to shame on both of those

1:01.1

accounts you're going to hear about a lot of his crazy

1:03.7

adventures today going through Africa but he told me a story once that when he was

1:09.3

hiking the Camino that he packed in something like a 20 liter backpack and if you're unfamiliar with

1:15.2

how big 20 leaders is think of a really a small school backpack one that you

1:20.6

would have taken to middle school with you and he used that for an entire hike of the

1:24.8

Camino so I'm not that crazy and if you're not that crazy if you're someone's like hey

1:28.9

listen I'm not gonna be like Francis I can't just get by with one pair of pants, one

1:33.2

t-shirt, one pair of shoes, but I do want to pack in just a carry-on. I've got the

1:37.5

perfect bag for you, the one that I take all over the world with me, my Tortuga

1:41.7

backpack. So if you're not crazy, crazy minimalist,

1:44.6

but you also want to make sure that you're only packing just to care on, check it out.

1:48.0

Tortuga Backpacks.com. Don't forget to use that promo code EPOP.

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