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In this Globe Trekker video, Estelle Bingham tours Australia while flashing back to highlights of trips three other presenters, Justine Shapiro, Ian Wright and Megan McCormick, have taken around the continent. Estelle starts in Sydney with Australia's best beaches, and hang glides over breathtaking coastlines. She takes an expedition into the outback to study bush survival and makes time to explore the region's varied culinary delights, rich plant...
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Covering three quarters of Australia, the Outback is one of the most rugged landscapes in the world. In this Globe Trekker video, Ian Wright journeys through Kakadu National Park, feeding crocodiles and encountering a black headed python along the way, to the Barunga Aboriginal Festival of sports and culture. He goes on a kangaroo hunt, tries his hand at bush poetry, works a cattle station, takes a hot air balloon over Alice Springs, dines on kangaroo...
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Travelers Ian Wright and Zay Harding head out on individual expeditions of New Zealand in this Globe Trekker video. New Zealand is a land of immense natural beauty, with amazing extremes of climate and terrain, from rain forest to reef, and glacier to volcano. Zay explores the Lord of the Rings filming locations, participates in a sheep-shearing contest, attends a Maori ragatta in Ngaruawahia, learns about the art of canoe paddling, plays rugby with...
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Ian Wright visits the Pacific Islands, once infamous among explorers for head-hunting and cannibalism, in this Globe Trekker video. In Fiji he is welcomed with a Kava drinking ceremony. The mild narcotic is used to start chiefly conferences and commemorate special occasions. He goes diving on the Astrolabe Reef and feeds sharks before heading to Vanuatu where, on the island of Ambryn, he meets the chief of a tribe that used to practice cannibalism...
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Join host Greg Grainger as he swims with manta rays and whales, tracks endangered seals and kangaroos, and watches birds that fly backwards. Explore four of Australia's 20,000 islands, all with an abundance of wildlife: Lady Elliot Island, with its colonies of seabirds, manta rays, turtles, and humpback whales; Kangaroo Island with its subspecies of kangaroos, as well as koalas and endangered sea lions; the idyllic Lord Howe Island, with the endangered...
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Delve into the multiculturalism of Chinatowns around the globe with travellers Lavinia Tan, Megan McCormick, and Justine Shapiro, as they visit Penang, Singapore, Lima, San Francisco, New York City, London, and Hong Kong. Tan discovers exquisite Chinese and Malay cuisine, visits a clan house, and experiences the Hungry Ghost Festival. She learns about Singapore's trading center, and the incredibly cramped living conditions of migrant workers. Next,...
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Ross Shimmon begins his adventure travels in Myanmar at the ancient Shewedagon temples of Yangon. He then travels by long-tail boat through the shanty fishing villages of Inle Lake to attend the annual Buddhist water festival parade. Next, it's a hot air balloon ride over the Land of 1,000 Golden Pagodas in Bagan on the shores of the magnificent Irrawaddy River. Finally. Ross meets an extraordinary young peasant girl who guides him through the small...
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Our planet is under threat by human beings. Tourism, wars, pollution, development, mining, decay, and neglect daily threaten some of the most precious places on Earth. Our presenters take us on a trip around the world to explore some of our most endangered places and ask how we can help. Justine Shapiro shows us the beautiful, sinking city of Venice. Zay Harding witnesses how global warming melts chunks of glacier into the sea in Antarctica. Ian Wright...
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Anyone with any sense knows the pitfalls of too much alcohol or caffeine, but most of us also realize that certain beverages can help spur a conversation along. And what if that conversation is taking place among native Chinese speakers while a beginner is trying to break in? This program provides clues about how that might play out, showing how to order drinks, Chinese-style, as it ventures into Beijing's burgeoning tea-houses, bars, and cafes. Viewers...
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This Globe Trekker episode follows several explorers through China, a country with over 1.3 billion citizens on a land mass barely larger than the U.S. They visit Emperor Qin's mausoleum in Xianyang and study China's history in Beijing. For centuries under imperial rule China was civilization's hot-spot of arts, sciences, and trade, providing the world with silk, porcelain, and tea, but it was all ended by the British Opium Wars and Mao Zedong's communist...
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Volcanoes both fascinate and frighten mankind. Often causing massive loss of life, they've been worshipped as gods, and feared as homes for the devil. They emit huge amounts of poison gas and ash, yet provide some of the most fertile land on Earth. In this Globe Trekker Special, travelers Megan McCormick, Ian Wright, Justine Shapiro, Alex Riley, and Sami Sabiti explore the world's most spectacular volcanoes, travelling from the heart of Europe, across...
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This Pilot Guides episode follows Justine Shapiro's week in Sydney, the primary port for convict ships of the 1800s and contemporary gateway to Australia. Justine takes a ferry tour around the harbor, scales the Sydney Harbor Bridge, explores an early settlement and the Colonial House Museum, and joins a tour group learning about aboriginal history and lifestyle. She visits famous Bondi Beach and the less populated Tamarama and Bronte Beaches, the...
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Ian Wright starts his journey of South Korea in the capital, Seoul. This Globe Trekker video follows him as he wanders the Kyongdong market, practices Tae Kwon-Do with the national team, trains with the Woman's Olympic team, visits the North-South Korean border, and ventures to Jinbu to seek serenity with the Buddha and see the Woljeongsa temple, which dates back to 545 AD. In Hahoe, a six-hundred year-old working village, Ian learns about ancient...
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This Globe Trekker video follows Ian Wright's unusual journey through the southern islands of Japan, from Kyushu down to the Yaeyama Islands, Japan's westernmost point. He begins in congested Tokyo and takes refuge in a hostess bar, where European girls are well-paid to make polite conversation with Japanese businessmen, before checking out the scene at Yoyigikoen Park, where eclectic bands compete to create a cacophony of noise pollution. Flying...
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This Globe Trekker episode follows Justine Shapiro across Vietnam, which stretches 1,000 miles along the east coast of the Indochinese peninsula. In Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), she explores a vibrant marketplace and celebrates the new years Tet festival by letting off firecrackers to scare away spirits before encountering some chilling reminders of the Vietnam War, like the underground network where the Viet Cong hid and lived. Then she heads...
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This Pilot Guides episode features the city of Beijing, capital of the People's Republic of China and a promised land of potential prosperity for the Chinese people. The trip begins in Tiananmen Square, former stage of Cultural Revolution rallies where soldiers run morning drills, then moves on to the Forbidden City, a cluster of ancient buildings off limits for 500 years during the Ming and Qiung dynasty. Watch the explorers climb to the roof of...
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Shilpa Mehta visits some of the Philippines' 7,000 islands in this Globe Trekker video. On the island of Luzon, she visits the giant statue of Ferdinand Marcos, learning about life during his rule, and a faith healer renowned for performing surgery without tools or incisions. Shilpa then visits the famous Hanging Coffins and amazing rice terraces, often considered the eighth wonder of the world, before stopping at San Fernando, where real-life crucifixions...
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Ian Wright takes a Jamaican journey in this Globe Trekker video. He begins in the famous hippy hangout resort of Negril, travels to a plantation house and through a crocodile swamp, and heads to Treasure Beach, a hideaway paradise. He visits Bob Marley's mausoleum, Hope Bay, where he stays with rastas who run a guest house and a school for orphans, and Port Antonio, an old fashioned resort full of colonial buildings. Jamaica has the most churches...
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This Globe Trekker video follows Megan McCormick through Queensland, Australia's second largest state whose 3,000 mile coastline borders the Great Barrier Reef. Her trip includes stops at various coastline surfer destinations, an encounter with local chef Gary Flynn, a tour of the wildlife on Fraser Island (the world's largest sandbar), a two-day yacht ride, a dive into Blue Pearl Bay, a tutorial on crocodile etiquette from the Barefooted Bushman,...
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This Globe Trekker video follows Zoe Palmer through the Caribbean islands of St. Lucia, Martinique and Montserrat, all steeped in a hybrid of English, African and French culture, dotted with volcanoes, lush with rainforests, and teeming with marine life. In St. Lucia, Zoe explores the famous Castries Market before hiking into the mountains and learning about St. Lucia's history of slavery. On the French island of Martinique she visits the remains...