How does escaping to a remote landscape sound right about now?

Coming up, author Pam Petro recommends sites to explore in southern Wales.

She points out there's a lot to see, even underground in a coal mine.

You go down in a shaft into utter darkness.

You have to leave anything that can make a spark.

A former Peace Corps volunteer tells us about leaving his American life behind for a stint in a totally foreign world.

He was assigned to teach English in a town on the vast plains of Central Asia in Kazakhstan.

And that's what you can experience in Kazakhstan is that open space.

Author Peter Stark also likes to explore the world's most out-of-the-way places.

He tells us how he finds the emptiness of uncivilization

can be a transcendent experience.

My entire life, I've been drawn to the most remote places I could find on the face of the globe.

Come with us for the hour ahead.

It's Travel with Rick Steeves.

Perhaps you're the kind of person who prefers venturing to places that look fairly empty on the map.

Wild adventures far from the maddening crowds are aware we're taking you today on travel with Rick Steve's,

to be influenced by the open spaces of Kazakhstan, Tibet,

Mozambique, and under the midnight sun of Greenland.

Let's start the hour, enjoying the rugged and enduring landscapes of Wales.

Clinging to the west coast of the Isle of Britain looking out over the Irish Sea

is a tiny country called Wales.

It's where you can hear one of Europe's oldest languages

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