Documentary by BBC about Himalaya featured by Michael Palin
PART 2
This 2004 BBC television series records comedian and travel presenter
Michael Palin's six-month trip across the Himalaya mountain range,
covering an amazingly diverse range of cultures and environments in
various countries. It includes Pakistan's tribal
province, featuring Khyber Pass, Peshawar, Gilgit, Chitral; India's Amritsar, Shimla, Dharamsala (meeting with the Dalai
Lama) and Srinagar; Annapurna to Everest - Nepal (meeting with King Gyanendra and includes
a scare involving the Maoist rebels in the Gurkha recruiting area) and
Tibet (administered as a Chinese province); Pokhara and the Everest base
camp on the northern side 4° The Roof of the World - Tibet's capital
Lhasa and in China's Qinghai province Yushu. 5° Leaping Tiger, Naked
Nagas - from China's Yunnan province to India's Nagaland state -
features Kunming, Lijiang, Lugu Lake, the Naga village of Longwa on the
Indian-Burmese border and a trek along Tiger Leaping Gorge; 6° Bhutan to
the Bay of Bengal - India's Assam state (Kaziranga National Park),
Bhutan (capital Thimphu) and Bangladesh (Sylhet, the capital Dhaka and
finally Chittagong on the Bay of Bengal). This documentary consists second part of the 6 part series documentary.
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