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Podcast: Unpacked by Afar
Episode: "The Amazon at Night Is Dolby Sound"âWhat Itâs Like to Visit Peru as a Blind Traveler
Description: Welcome to Unpacked: Five Questions. In honor of our latest issue of â Afar magazineâ , which focuses on epic tripsâthe kind of adventures that change your worldâwe're hearing from the writers and photographers who chronicled and captured those trips.
In the final episode of the series, host and Afar executive editor Katherine LaGrave speaks with Ryan Knighton, a memoirist, screenwriter, surfer, and Afar contributing writer, about his first trip to Peru with Intrepid Travel.
Blind since his late teens, Ryan reflects on orchestral nights in the Amazon, the terrifying thrill of canopy rope bridges, and why...