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Trumix.com listings available of Radio Outpost Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Sri Lanka and WOOFing Sri Lanka; island paradise or island war zone? Listen to a conversation with Mike Berry, a regular traveller to Sri Lanka, to find out. Also on the show, how an Edmonton backpacker eats some of the best food in Europe for free in exchange for the sweat of her brow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Tancook Island Rain Tree and Berlin and Poland The Tancook Island Rain Tree is an audio illusion that could someday become Nova Scotia’s number one tourist attraction but you can listen to the Rain Tree right here before the tourist hordes land on this tiny island on Nova Scotia’s south shore! Also on the show an Edmonton traveller goes on a profound and profane journey to Berlin and Poland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cycling the Icefields Parkway “Then there was the time we cycled passed the grizzly bear on the Icefields Parkway.” Join CJSR Bike Traffic reporter Claire Stock, Outpost Producer Daryl Richel and a group of other cyclist as they cycle the Icefields Parkway. Yes, there were bears but there was also an overnight at the Rampart Creek Hostel including a good bake in the hostel’s log cabin sauna. Go here (http://picasaweb.google.com/Daryl.Richel/CyclingJasperBanff) to see photos of the trip. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Three Island Tour A Three Island Tour No radio program is an island but this edition of Radio Outpost is set on three islands; Tancook Island off the south shore of Nova Scotia, Isla Contoy a nature reserve off the Yucatan coast and Isla Mujeres a low key island about a 15 minute ferry ride from Cancun, Mexico. Join Outpost producer Daryl Richel on Tancook Island as looks back at his trip to Isla Contoy and Isla Mujeres and discovers friendly sting rays, 300 hermit crabs chowing down on lunch and mating fr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hostels in Cancun and Singapore Cancun and Singapore are not known for their stellar budget backpacker accommodation, but if you seek you shall find! On this edition of Radio Outpost follow Outpost producer Daryl Richel has he travels to a laid back hostel on an island off the coast of Cancun and visits a cool Singapore inn that is part hostel and hotel. www.hangouthotels.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trekking in India Ah...trekking in India; the mountain views, great tea, wonderful handicrafts and unfortunately there is also from time to time deforestation and rag-tag accommodation. Join Edmonton backpacker Jessica Glombick as she takes us trekking in Darjeeling, India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ultra Bike Commuting Ultra Bike Commuting: 5,000 for Health and the Bicycle Restoration Project (This show aired on CJSR FM88 in late June 2007) Most bike commuters ride 30 minutes or so to work and at the end of the day it’s back home on their two wheeled friend. Recently three bike commuters rolled into Edmonton who don’t just commute to work in Calgary, Toronto or Vancouver but across Canada. Dustin Anderson, Farah Nazarali and Michael Flaherty are ultra-commuters who ride their bikes thousands of kilo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pencil Museum and Travelling in Thailand On this edition of Radio Outpost a conversation with an Edmonton traveller who discovered you can not always believe everything you see when you go trekking in northern Thailand. Also on the program: the Prado in Madrid has an excellent collection of Goyas, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has jewel encrusted Faberge eggs and the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. has Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis airplane, but none of them have a collection of pencils that compares to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Travelling in China Part 2 Radio Outpost's Carol Holland talks China with Edmonton backpacker Claire Theeker-Brown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Travelling in China Part One What were you up to when you were 19 years old? I bet it wasn't a solo backpacking trip to China, but that's exactly what Edmonton traveller Claire Theeker-Brown did. Claire fell in love with China despite being caught in the middle of the Asian SARS hysteria. Listen to a part one of a three part conversation with Claire Theeker-Brown as she talks about her backpacking trip to China and Thailand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heather Knowles in Asia Edmonton traveller Heather Knowles is a passionate, spontaneous and thoughtful traveller. On this edition of Radio Outpost producer Carol Holland talks with Heather about her adventures in South Asia. Heather talks about volunteering at a dog rescue centre on an island in Thailand, the ethics of trekking , the fate of Thailand's coral reefs and the joys and struggles of travelling in Cambodia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canada World Youth When Edmonton traveller Noelle Jaipaul decided to go traveling she wanted to set off on a journey that would mean more to her than a typical overseas adventure. So Noelle threw her hat into the ring at Canada World Youth to see if she could get some international development experience. After a long and rigorous screening process Canada World Youth found Noelle a volunteer position at an environmental agency in rural Africa where she lived with a local family. Listen to a conversation w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Polly Evans Polly Evans (www.pollyevans.com) is not a typical travel writer. She is best know for her travels books, “It's Not about the Tapas” which is about her cycling journey in Spain, “Kiwis Might Fly” chronicles her motorcycle tour of New Zealand and her most recent book, “Fried Eggs with Chopsticks” which is about her solo journey in China. However Polly Evans is not a one trick pony. In 2002 she won a Human Rights Press Award for a series of articles she wrote about racism in Hong Kong a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuk to the Road and Backpacking in Mexico On this edition of Radio Outpost a conversation with a traveller from Brighton, England who drove a tuk tuk (a motorized three-wheeled cab) from Bangkok to Brighton, England. Also on the show backpacking in Mexico with two Edmonton travellers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuk Tuk Promo Traffic in Bangkok is insane! A couple of travellers in Thailand thought if you can't beat the traffic in Bangkok you might as well join it, so they bought a custom made tuk tuk (a motorized three-wheeled cab) and drove it all the way to their home in Brighton, England; a journey of over 16,000 kilometers. On the next Radio Outpost a conversation with one of the travellers who set out on this bizarre journey. Also on the show backpacking in Mexico. Listen here to find out more about the sh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Delhi Without a Net Adventurous travellers climb the highest mountains and ford piranha infested rivers, but Radio Outpost producer Daryl Richel will have not of that. Instead, he flies from Edmonton to New Delhi, India (a journey of over 30 hours) and arrives without a hotel reservation or a ride from the airport to the city. Too cheap to take a cab, he stumbles around the airport looking for a bus that (hopefully) will take him to the budget-hotel- heartland of Delhi. Does he succeed? Listen to New Delhi Wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toilets of the World and Bhutan Listen to a conversation with a photographer who travelled around the world taking pictures of toilets. Sian James and writer Morna Gregory have published a book about the adventure; it's called Toilets of World. Also on the show meet a traveller who went to the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Outpost Toilet Promo Why do you travel? Meet interesting people, learn more about the world, visit historical monuments how about travelling around the world to take photographs of toilets? That's what two Vancouver travellers did and they've recently released a book of their favourite thrones. On the next Radio Outpost meet Sian James the photographer of Toilets of the World. Also on the show travelling in Bhutan. Listen to Radio Outpost this Wednesday, January 24th starting at 5 pm. Listen to the promo for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Running in Iceland and Matt Jackson Some people like to run marathons, some people like to travel to New York to run marathons and some people like to run half marathons in Iceland. On the next edition of Radio Outpost meet an Edmonton traveller who went to Iceland in search of a good run and Iceland's Penis(!) Museum. Also on the show Vancouver based travel writer, photographer and publisher Matt Jackson talks about his two new books that feature off beat travel stories from the Canadian wilderness and beyond wait 'till yo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iceland Show Promo Get a sample of the Jan. 17th program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Morocco and Home Exchanges Lite Listen to a 40 second version of the Morocco and Home Exchange program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Morocco Carpets&Home Exchange Find out how a budget traveller in Morocco blows her budget on carpets $4,000 worth of carpets! Also on the program meet a retired couple who say home exchanges have helped them see the world on a backpacker's budget. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Around the World the Hard Way Listen to Colin Angus and Julie Wafaei talk about their human powered circumnavigation of the globe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colin and Julie's Big Adventure Do you row, row, row, row your boat gently down the stream? Not if you're Colin Angus or Julie Wafaei rowing across the Atlantic as part of the first human powered circumnavigation of the globe. On this edition of Radio Outpost listen to Colin and Julie: Canada's Crazy Canuck Travellers on Wed., Jan. 3 starting at 5 pm on FM88 or on line right now at cjsr.com. Listen to a 50 second version of the program on line right here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking Turkey About Turkey Lite Don't have time to listen to the full length version of Talking Turkey About Turkey? Then listen to the 40 second version of the program right now. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking Turkey About Turkey Turkey is a backpackers paradise; rich history, amazing monuments, moderate weather and inexpensive accomodation, transportation, and food. On the this edition of Radio Outpost two Edmonton travellers talk about their trip to Turkey. Get the low-down on traditional Turkish baths for women, how to make sense of the Turkish bus system,(what is that hand lotion the bus companies give to all their passengers?),and hear about a paragliding run that went off the rails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christmas vs Trip to India On this edition of Radio Outpost a mom in Calgary explains why she's taking her teenage children to India instead of giving them Christmas presents. Also on the show, Canadian adventurer Colin Angus gets very lost in the wilds of Mongolia and how an Edmonton traveller in Honduras almost ended up in the jaws of a huge toothless shark. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dec. 20th Show Promo On the December 20th Edition of Radio OutpostTeenage Son:"Mom for Christmas I want a new Play Station, an Ipod and a lime green Fender Stratocaster guitar."Teenage Daughter:"...and I want a new DVD player, a Razor cell phone and a pair of red leather boots from Gravity Pope."Mom:"How about this...instead of exchanging Christmas presents this year why don't we all go on a trip to India to volunteer at an agency that helps the poorest of poor."Teenage Daughter and Son simultaneously and with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Satanic possession in Africa and Taking Pictures in Mexico If you have ever meet crazy locals on a trip you might be right! Hie is an Edmonton backpacker and traveller with a bizarre story about satanic possession in Africa. Also on the show how a photographer in Mexico is helping bring travellers and locals together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Laurie Gough Canadian backpacker and traveller Laurie Gough likes to sleep in some very strange places. Caves, hollowed out logs and park benches are a few of the places she has rested her head while she's been on the road. In her most recent book"Kiss the Sunset Pig"she reflects on a life spent travelling as she heads west across the USA towards her dreamland of California. Along the way she remembers trips to Jamaica, Sumatra, Korea, Thailand and Canada's sub-arctic. Listen to a conversation with La ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peru and China Peru has a lot to offer budget travellers, so a three week visit might not seem like enough time to get the most out of the country. Edmonton traveller Chance Martin only had three weeks to see Peru, but oh my did he ever get a bang for his buck! He went sand surfing, stayed with a local family on Lake Titicaca and tried a shaman's brew...plus a whole lot more. Listen to a conversation with Chance to find out more about backpacking in Peru. Also on the show, an Edmonton traveller goes to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tour A Sikh Temple in New Delhi Join Traveller and Outpost producer Daryl Richel as he explorers New Delhi's most important Sikh temple the, Gurdwara Bangla Sahib. The temple features Indian religion, 17th century Indian architecture, live Indian music and free Indian food all under a huge gilded dome right in the centre of New Delhi, India. Also on the show, a One Minute Vacation from Poland and how NOT to go trekking in Thailand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Burning Man and Bull Fight Burning Man is one crazy festival! I don't know where to start...let's just say it's 35,000 people/artists having thetime of their lives in the middle of a Nevada desert. People come from around the world to be part of Burning Man. Edmonton traveller Ruthie went to Burning Man this year. Find out how she broke her back at Burning Man 2006; don't worry she's okay now. Also on the show Radio Outpost correspondent Paul Fisher gives use a ring-side report from a bull fight with a difference in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Twigger When Robert Twigger goes canoeing he doesn't fool around. He took three years to paddle a birchbark canoe (much of it pulling the canoe up stream) from Lake Athabasca to the Pacific Ocean. It was the first time anyone went on a similar journey since Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie did it in 1793. Listen to a conversation with Robert Twigger, the author of"Voyager, Across the Rocky Mountains in a Birchbark Canoe". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Small and Strange Museums CJSR gives a voice to the voiceless; a platform for folks who don't get a lot of attention in the mainstream media. FM88 welcomes under the radar performers, activists, artists...and museum curators. On this edition of Radio Outpost we start a regular feature looking at some of the world's most obscure museums. Radio Outpost producer Carol Holland talks with the curators of the British Lawnmower Museum and the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Backpacking in the Middle East Before the recent obscenity between Hamas and Israel Lebanon was a pretty safe place for travellers. That all changed a couple of months ago when the Israeli military aimed its big guns on Lebanon and Hamas stepped up its attacks on Israel. But just before that Edmonton traveller Scott Lingley went backpacking in Lebanon. Listen to Scott talk about his travels in the Middle East and Thailand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ben Petruk Travels in South East Asia&India It was the trip of a life time. Edmonton traveller Ben Petruk went to South East Asia and India to satisfy his wanderlust before he settled back to his teaching job in Edmonton. But this wasn't just a little one or two month adventure... Ben hit the road for 8 months! Highlight; volunteering at a restaurant in Thailand. Downer; having the camera ripped off in Laos. Listen to a conversation with Ben to find out more about his trip. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vegetarian Festival Promo Here's what's on the next edition of Radio Outpost, that's Wednesday, September 6th starting at 5 pm. Vegetarians are going to love this one! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Backpacking in South America He climbs a mountain, gets a tour of a cocaine lab and breaks his neck. Edmonton traveller Paul Fisher had a hell of a trip in South and Central America. Hear Paul talk about his 7 month adventure including some field recordings he made along the way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Promo On the next edition of Radio Outpost join Edmonton traveller Paul Fisher has he tours a cocaine factory in Columbia. Besides a visit to the coke factory you can find out more about Paul's 7 month trip to South and Central America. Listen to this clip from the show to find out more about Paul's trip to the factory. Paul will be on the August 30 edtion of Outpost starting a 5 pm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website treking In Laos and Turtles in Sri Lanka Check out the hill tribes in Laos with traveller and former Edmontonian Jeff Lepointe. Also, Radio Outpost started in 1995 and since then we've featured travel stories from around the world. Listen to a story from 1999 that features Radio Outpost producer Daryl Richel's visit to a community turtle project in Sri Lanka. For more information on the project go to: www.tcpsrilanka.org/ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buryatia Servas Meet a traveller who went cycling in Buryatia. What, you haven't heard of Buryatia? Find out more about this out of the way destination in central Asia. Also on the show check out some no budget traveller's accommodation in Udaipur, India. Don't be afraid of the bathroom, it just sounds like a prison toilet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chile, China and Thailand Travellers in Chile and China talk about their travel experiences. Also on the show a travel story about a rafting trip in Thailand that almost ended in disaster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GAP Travel and Couch Surfing in Ukraine GAP Adventures is Canada%27s biggest adventure and ecotour company. Listen to a conversation with the founder of GAP to find out how this backpacker from Calgary became a leader in responsible travel. Also, couch surfing in Ukraine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hare Krishna Monk and Barefoot Hiking Leave your troubles and hiking boots behind. Meet a couple of travelers who have a unique approach to hiking. Bhaktimarga Swami is a Hare Krishna monk from Ontario who is walking across Canada and listen to Mike Berrow explain why he loves barefoot hiking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New York City and The Great Wall of India Who says student loans are for books and bread? Outpost traveller, producer...and student Carol Holland saves some of her student loan for a trip to New York. Check out the great audio installation she saw/heard. Also on the show a visit to The Great Wall of India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Machu Picchu Machu Picchu is one very cool place. Okay there%27s lots of main stream tourists hanging around snapping pictures like there%27s no tomorrow, but still...those mountains and the Inca history can not be beat! Outpost traveller Jeff Lapointe hikes up to see the wonder. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Galapagos There really is no where else in the world like the Galapagos. Join Radio Outpost traveler Jeff Lepointe as he explores the Galapagos...wait till you hear the Blue Footed Boobies. They sound even funnier than their name. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Semana Santa in Antigua, Guatemala If you think Easter is boring in Canada you need to find out how the locals in Guatemala celebrate Easter. Join Outpost traveller Jeff Lepointe as he takes in the colour of Holy Week in Antigua, Guatemala. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indian Train Trip and Rethinking Tourism Outpost%27s series on travelling in India continues. Everyday about 14 million people take the train in India, and not long ago backpacker and Outpost producer Daryl Richel was one of them. Join him on a 16 hour train journey in India. Also on the show a traveller and globalization expert rethinks mass tourism in India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Camel Safari Join backpacker and Radio Outpost correspondent Jeff Lapointe on a camel safari in India. Jeff spends a couple of days riding a rude camel to check out a few off the beaten villages and to soak up the Indian desert. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website India%27s Toilet Museum Go on a tour of India%27s Toilet Museum...really, a toilet museum! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Heart is Africa Scott Griffin is not a low budget traveller, but he sure has the sprite of one. He flew his small single engine airplane solo from Toronto to Africa. Listen to the show to find out how to win a copy of Griffin%27s book My Heart is Africa: A Flying Adventure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Servas and Gujarat Market Find out how an organization called Servas can help you meet locals, stay with them for free and create world peace on your next holiday. Also on the show join Radio Outpost producer Daryl Richel as he goes for a walk through a market in a very off the beaten path town in Gujarat, India Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Being Caribou: Five Months with an Arctic Herd Listen to a feature interview with Karsten Heuer. Karsten and his wife Leanne spent 5 months backpacking as they followed a herd of caribou. Where the caribou went, Karsten and Leanne followed...for over 1,500 kilometres! Karsten talks about how the trip tapped into a %22vibe%22 the modern world has lost touch with. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Working in Europe and Gandhi Museum An Albertan traveler talks about living,working and traveling in Europe. Mel Hutchinson worked on organic farms in Italy, at a hostel in Scotland and did henna on the streets of Edinburgh. Also on the show a private tour of the Mahatma Gandhi Museum in New Delhi, India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jam Cruise 2006 and Indian Food Search What happens when you take 30 jam bands and put them on a cruise ship with 1500 music fans? Listen to a conversation with a traveler who was on JamCruise 2006. Also on the show roaming the streets of India looking for the perfect Indian meal that rings in for only $1!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indiasnore Join an Edmonton backpacker shopping at an outdoor market in Hanoi, Vietnam. Also a conversation with a couple who went on a 20 month long honeymoon and field recording of a snoring backpacker in a New Delhi guesthouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Burning Man A tour of Burning Man 2005 with a Burning Man lover from Edmonton. Burn Baby Burn!!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Tour of Pharaganj Pharaganj is the centre for budget backpackers in New Delhi. Meet some of the travellers on the streets of Pharaganj as they talk about the ups and downs of travelling in India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website William Jans A conversation with Canada%27s most engaging travel photographer William Jans and and how to cycle in Bangkok...yes cycling in Bangkok. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website