Episode 40 - Petch Nethnapat: Travel For Yourself

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This week we speak to overland explorer, Petch Nethnapat, about his Travel Bubble choices.

After growing up in Thailand, Petch moved to the US to study. Once graduating at the age of 23, he embarked on an epic overland journey of more than 15,000km from Thailand to Morocco – without taking a single flight.

Now more than 70 countries later, his slower pace of travelling has allowed him to see and photograph life on the road, as well as learn from the locals along the way. Some of his memorable routes include a road trip to Aleppo from Beirut, hitchhiking through the jungle in Guinea Bissau and travelling from Syria to Afghanistan.
In 2021 alone, Petch travelled to 23 countries including spending time in 14 different provinces in Afghanistan just before the Taliban takeover and this episode we talk all about travelling through the Pandemic and how Covid didn’t put a stop to Petch’s adventures. It is easy to why he was named as Noman Mania’s most Intrepid Traveller of the year in 2021.

He is now co-founder of Saga Expeditions which offer unique and insightful tours, with 2022 offering trips to the likes of Togo and Benin for the Voodoo Festival, South Sudan, Yemen and an expedition to Peru with the Matses ‘Jaguar’ Tribe.

Tune in to hear where he has chosen, involving countries that many deem too risky to currently enter, where to get delicious cold soup and where there is a must-see mud mosque.

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Country No.1: Russia
Activity: Trans-Siberian Express
Food: Pelmini or Okroshka

Country No.2: Afghanistan
Activity: Visit Nuristan
Food: Karahi or Bolani

Country No. 3: Mali
Activity: Djenne Mosque (mud mosque)
Food: Peanut sauce with meat or fried fish (Tigua Degue/Mafe)
Link:
Djenne mud mosque
Wildcard: Brazil
Top Travel Tip: Know why you travel.
Best Souvenir: One magnet and one bank note per country

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