Himalaya with Michael Palin - Season 1 Episode 2 A Passage to India
Goes up to 14500ft by Helicopter to get his first taste of high altitude, then has to detour back to Lahore to actually cross into India after observing some truly bizarre border rituals. He visits a huge Sikh temple at Amritsar and then takes the Himalayan Queen railway to Shimla the old capital of British India. Here he visits a local theatre stuck in a time warp and then goes on to beautiful but war torn Kashmir. Here he stays on one of the famous houseboats and then visits Srinigar where the Dalai Lama now lives. He gets his astrology chart done by the Buddhist monks and then has the chance to interview the Dalai Lama.
Year: 2004
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: BBC One
Director:
Cast: Michael Palin
Crew: Roger Mills (Director), Michael Palin (Writer), John-Paul Davidson (Director), Nigel Meakin (Director of Photography)
First Air Date: Oct 03, 2004
Last Air date: Nov 07, 2004
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 6 Episode
Runtime: 50 minutes
IMDb: 7.93/10 by 15.00 users
Popularity: 7.0533
Language: English
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