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752 Amsterdam Canals; The Last Island; Coimbra

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

Rick Steves, Public Radio, 721132, Europe, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Npr, Travel

4.32.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A Dutch guide invites us to imagine a day on the water exploring Amsterdam's iconic canals. Then a historian shares what little we know of the elusive Sentinelese — likely the most isolated, least contacted people on earth — and what he learned by traveling to nearby islands in the Bay of Bengal. And a tour guide from Portugal tells us why the venerable university of town of Coimbra is such a delight to explore.

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The most isolated, uncontacted unplugged people on earth live on a small island in the Andaman

0:06.7

archipelago in the Bay of Bengal.

0:08.9

Their language and their culture are still almost completely unknown. In just a bit, Adam Goodhart tells us how he found that the people of North Sentinel Island

0:17.0

wore off anyone who tries to visit.

0:19.0

They do have some very rude gestures that they like to make to outsiders.

0:24.0

Tap into the gazelleck spirit of Amsterdam by navigating its famous canals.

0:29.0

We'll hear how to spend a day by the water like the Dutch do.

0:32.0

There's nothing more fun than taking a beer or a glass of wine and putting your feet over the

0:37.4

side of the canal and just sit there and watch the boats passing by.

0:41.5

And get a taste of Old World Portugal and Queenbra. It's home to one of Europe's

0:46.4

oldest universities. A campus that is coming from a palace, from a royal palace from

0:51.6

the 1500s.

0:53.0

Come along with travel, Rick Steves.

0:57.0

From a distance, you see a tropical paradise isolated from the rest of the world.

1:05.0

But up close, North Sentinel Island in the middle of the Bay of Bengal is home to one of the most elusive tribes on Earth.

1:12.0

Coming up on today's travel with Rick Steve's... of the most elusive tribes on earth.

1:13.0

Coming up on today's travel with Rick Steve's Adam Goodhart tells us what a visit to the Andaman Islands

1:18.4

showed him about the isolated Sentinel East people. And a guide from Portugal tells us why the venerable

1:25.2

university town of Queenborough is such a delight to explore. Let's start the hour

1:30.4

I'm getting acquainted with Amsterdam's charming canals.

1:34.0

Amsterdam, with 60 miles of canals, is known as the Venice of the north.

1:38.0

Amsterdam's can nows can teach us about its history and its culture,

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