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"I realized that I could try even the craziest things that crossed my mind," says a young man who one fine day bought three horses from a Kazakh family and crossed
Mongolia at a gallop
. We also hear how a scientist who exchanged the microscope for a photo camera recounts his last
six months traveling through Africa
and a journalist who, in the Everest base camp, recounts the experience breathlessly.
There is also a whole
thesis on ramen
, where to have it in Japan and how to choose the firmness of cooking. And the music plays in Valparaíso, Chile, where some chinchineros, like men orchestra, entertain the views of this "city full of elevators that do not stop climbing hills" ... Welcome to the world of podcasts, to the pleasure of traveling from hearsay, of traveling the planet with
eyes closed and helmets on
.
In 2020 we have experienced "the great explosion of podcast and audio-entertainment in Spain", according to a report prepared by Prodigioso Volcán in collaboration with the market research company SEIM, which indicates that in our country, currently,
three out of four Internet users
know this audio format that is listened to online or downloaded from the internet to enjoy it whenever you want.
Almost half listen to them.
Traveling gestures
Pablo Strubell
, author of the website and the book
How to prepare a great trip
and organizer of the Great Travel Days, is one of the pioneers of podcasts in this field. It started in 2012 when hardly anyone talked about this way of telling stories. After leaving the project, he has returned to confinement.
A great trip
shares the experience and learning of people who have made trips of several months or even years in any means of transport.
It is a podcast full of passion and traveling emotions where Strubell, an economist by training, interviews the protagonists of amazing feats, such as that of Sergi Unanue, who has crossed Mongolia on horseback.
"During the pandemic, the podcast has been the way to
travel through the voice and stories of others,
" explains Strubell.
"Listening to travel podcasts has been therapeutic for many people who could not travel." For the author, "the beauty of the format is that you become a radio yourself and that it allows you to talk to anyone who is traveling anywhere in the world ".
from everest
Travelers podcasts cannot be approached without mentioning
Piedra de Toque
, specialized in travel, adventure and mountains that
Iñaki Makazaga
presents and directs
.
A few days ago the journalist was in Nepal accompanying the mountaineer
Alex Txikon
in his attempt to climb Mount Everest without oxygen and in an express way.
An adventure that was cut short by the health situation that the country is going through, but that has allowed the followers of his podcast to travel to the base camp on the roof of the world and
imagine the snow, the cold and the spectacular views
when one is above of the 6,000 meters of altitude.
"I'm going to describe the scene to you," Makazaga recounted in a recent broadcast after seeing Everest through the clouds.
"It took us almost three hours to climb to this point, barely 800 meters from base camp, but the body has not given us a meter. We have been here a week and I still had not seen Everest. What little I have seen It has fascinated me. "
The man from Bilbao started with
Piedra de Toque
ten years ago, first as a radio program linked to Onda Vasca microphones and since 2020 in podcast format.
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Carla's suitcase
is another reference.
Carla Llamas
has been a
podcaster
since 2019. Like so many travelers she "burns her chair" at this point in the pandemic, but she solves it by chatting with contagious enthusiasm with guests who have great stories of
travel, sustainability and entrepreneurship
. She also recounts her own escapades as a traveling prescriber.
From his blog Something to Remember also emerged the podcast
Hello, World
that
Lucia and Rubén
sweetly broadcast
, a couple who came from the world of advertising until "they left everything to go traveling."
The very personal account of the destinations they have known is full of
sound documents
with which they achieve an atmosphere that transports you to those chinchineros from the beginning in Valparaíso or to the beaches of Sri Lanka, where the fishermen have just arrived after fishing in the sea.
Specialized, humorous ...
There is also no shortage of specialized podcasts, ideal for preparing an in-depth trip. An example is the new
Japan in depth
, from the authors of the Japanism website. In it
Laura and Luis
one day immerse themselves with passion in the infinite universe of ramen and another they explore the
konbini
or convenience stores, shops open 24 hours that are all over Japan ... always with knowledge of the facts.
None of these podcasts lack a sense of humor, but
Patosos por el mundo was
born in the middle of a pandemic to get a smile from its followers.
"Nobody is born traveled," say
Sara and JAAC
, also authors of the blog
Salta Conmigo
.
"On Instagram you tend to put the idyllic destination and the perfect pose. We want to show that when you travel,
not everything works out
. There are times when you think what I'm doing here ... Earth swallow me. But those are the ones that later the most they are remembered and the anecdotes that are most shared, "says Sara.
"We tell on the podcast what we would tell our friends," adds JAAC.
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