Synopsis
Amateur Traveler is an award winning audio travel show that focuses primarily on the question: "where should you go next and what should you see, do and eat there?". Amateur Traveler won its creator Chris Christensen a Travel+Leisure SMITTY award as the best independent travel journalist and a Society of American Travel Writers Lowell Thomas Award. It is also used to teach English at Oxford University.
Episodes
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AT#497 - Travel to the Westfjords of Iceland
09/01/2016 Duration: 36minHear about travel to the Westfjords of Iceland as the Amateur Traveler talks to Katie Hammel of Vaitor.com about her trip to this remote region of the island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#496 - Travel to Remote Alaska
02/01/2016 Duration: 51minHear about travel to remote parts of Alaska as the Amateur Traveler talks again to Sherry Ott from ottsworld.com about travel to Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in the east, above the Arctic Circle to Coldfoot Camp and far to the west to Nome Alaska. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#495 - Travel to the Dominican Republic
19/12/2015 Duration: 42minHear about travel to the Dominican Republic as the Amateur Traveler talks to guidebook author and travel writer Lebawit Lily Girma who is working on the Moon Guide to the Dominican Republic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#494 - Travel to San Diego, California
12/12/2015 Duration: 32minHear about travel to San Diego as the Amateur Traveler talks to Mike from MikesRoadTrip.com about this beautiful city in Southern California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#493 - Travel to the Aeolian Islands
05/12/2015 Duration: 35minHear about travel to the Aeolian Islands as the Amateur Traveler talks to Rick Zullo from rickzullo.com about these historic but lesser known islands off the coast of Sicily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#492 - Trekking the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal
28/11/2015 Duration: 52minHear about Trekking the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal as the Amateur Traveler talks to the Su Family from sufamilyadventures.com about tackling this well known route. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#491 - Travel to El Salvador
21/11/2015 Duration: 42minHear about travel to El Salvador as the Amateur Traveler talks to Joe Baur of joebaur.com about his recent visit to this Central American country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#490 - Travel to Moscow
14/11/2015 Duration: 58minHear about travel to Moscow as the Amateur Traveler talks to Alex Block of alexblocktravels.com about his home town and Russia's capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#489 - Travel to Croatia
07/11/2015 Duration: 46minHear about travel to Croatia as the Amateur Traveler talks to Jay Ternavan of JaywayTravel.com about this country on the coast of the Adriatic. Jay says, "for me Croatia has everything you could look for in a travel experience" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#488 - Travel to Northern Romania
31/10/2015 Duration: 37minHear about travel to Northern Romania as the Amateur Traveler talks to Ralph Velasco of photoenrichment.com about the region that he visited leading a recent photo tour. We talk about the regions of Maramureş and Bukovina, north of Transylvania. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#487 - Travel to Queens, New York
18/10/2015 Duration: 35minHear about travel to the borough of Queens in New York City as the Amateur Traveler talks to Brian Cicioni from imayroam.com about this less visited part of the city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#486 - River Cruise on Portugal's Douro River with Viking River Cruise
11/10/2015 Duration: 55minA special live episode of the Amateur Traveler with three guests, Aaron Saunders, Jonathan Souza and Mary Quincy talking about the recent VikingSocial, Viking River Cruise on the Douro River in Portugal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#485 - Travel to Northern South Korea
03/10/2015 Duration: 44minHear about travel to northern South Korea as the Amateur Traveler talks to Katie of aroundtheworldinktdays.com about the area of South Korea where she is living. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#484 - Travel to Mackinac Island (and Michigan's Upper Peninsula)
19/09/2015 Duration: 52minHear about travel to Michigan's Upper Peninsula (the UP) as the Amateur Traveler talks to Jennifer Schuitema from Grand Rapids Michigan about travel to the northern remote part of the Great Lake State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#483 - Travel to Cameroon
12/09/2015 Duration: 46minHear about travel to Cameroon as the Amateur Traveler talks to Francis Tapon and Rejoice Mubarak from TheUnseenAfrica.com about Rejoices' native country and Francis' recent trip to this West African country on his quest to explore every country in Africa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#482 - Hiking the Camino de Santiago in Spain
05/09/2015 Duration: 42minHear about hiking the Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James) in northern Spain as the Amateur Traveler talks to Linda Martin from The Indie Travel Podcast. Linda says, "the thing about the Camino is that it is as long as you wanted to be." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#481 - Travel to Santa Barbara, California
29/08/2015 Duration: 44minHear about travel to Santa Barbara, California as the Amateur Traveler talks to Heather Simon from wellplannedtravel.net about the "American Riviera". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#480 - United States UNESCO World Heritage Sites
22/08/2015 Duration: 48minHear about the United States UNESCO World Heritage Sites as the Amateur Traveler talks to Gary Arndt from Everything-Everywhere.com and The Global Travel Conspiracy podcast about these best of the best sites. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#479 - Hike Japan's Nakasendo Trail
15/08/2015 Duration: 43minHear about hiking Japan's Nakasendo Trail as the Amateur Traveler talks to Dave Grenewetzki about his experiences on this trip into the Japanese countryside between Kyoto and Tokyo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#478 - Travel to Kyrgyzstan
08/08/2015 Duration: 49minHear about travel to Kyrgyzstan as the Amateur Traveler talks to Eric Anderson about the central asian country where he has been serving as a Peace Corp volunteer. Eric admits that he might not have been able to find Kyrgyzstan on a map before being sent to this beautiful mountainous country just west of China... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices