534b Crete; Alaska's Tip of the Iceberg; Darwin Comes to Town
5/30/202652 min
A pair of tour guides from Greece tell us how the island of Crete offers a natural experience unlike any other. Then travel writer Mark Adams describes his 3,000-mile voyage along the coasts of Alaska to follow what the Harriman Expedition saw in 1899. And a Dutch biologist explains how urban evolution is happening faster than we used to think all over the world.
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First 90 secondsRick Steves· Host0:00
If you wanna hike the Gorge of Samaria on the Greek island of Crete, you might like to know you'll have someone there who will look out for you.
Anastasia Gaitanou· Guest0:07
There is this old shepherd there who knows, of course, every guide, and usually he has some cheese, and if you know him well, he can bring some other stuff out as well.
Rick Steves· Host0:14
Coming up, a pair of Greek travel experts tell us how traditions remain important on Crete, where you can still look at frescoes that are 4,000 years old. Cruising in Alaska, the attraction's the scenery and the wildlife.
David Willett· Guest0:27
You've got the water, you've got the green islands, you've got the snow-capped peaks, and then you've got the wildlife. You've got whales, you've got brown bears, you've got black bears, you've got wolves.
Rick Steves· Host0:36
Travel writer Mark Adams reports on how he used the state ferry system to retrace the historic route of the 1899 Harriman Expedition. And a Dutch ecologist explains how life is evolving around us a lot faster than you might expect.
Menno Schilthuizen· Guest0:49
We don't see evolution as something that you can observe in your backyard, but you can, and it goes fast, and it happens everywhere.
Rick Steves· Host0:55
It's all in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steves. You could call it the first luxury cruise to Alaska, and it had an amazing guest list. Railroad magnate Edward Harriman invited John Muir, George Bird Grinnell, William Dall, and other leading scientists, artists, and thinkers of his day to sail with him into the often uncharted waters of Alaska in 1899. He wanted it to be a sort of floating university to explore the wilderness that America had purchased just a few decades earlier. Its passengers would provide the spark that got America serious about conservation.