Adventure / Travelling
If Marco Polo were alive today, where would he go?
It takes courage to travel to the harshest places on Earth and come back with pictures so good they’re printed in 25 countries around the world. It takes vision to turn a passion for travel into a brilliant travel/adventure TV show, and that’s what David Adams has done with Journeys to the Ends of the Earth.
David Adams has always been a man of action. A keen surfer he was also a ski instructor. As an adventure traveler his attitude has often been: “If there’s a established tourist trail – don’t take it!” Needless to say, his first documentary (on ski-adventure) was shot in Finland, Manchuria, Georgia and Kashmir! Neither has David been too concerned about personal safety; his film on mine-clearance in Afghanistan was titles Ten Million Mines.
And so it is with Journeys to the Ends of the Earth. Over two years of production, David has led his team into the scorching sands of the Sahara, the ice wastes of Siberia and the swirling mists of the Andes. When first commissioned by the Discovery Network, this 13-part adventure travel series was the most expensive TV documentary series ever to have been produced in Australia.
Journeys to the Ends of the Earth is driven by the motto: “If Marco Polo were alive today, where would he go?” If he were alive and needed advice, he’d probably go straight to David Adams!
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Volume 1
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Afghanistan - In Search of the Lost Buddhas
Adams hitches a ride with the Taliban to cris-cross Afghanistan: a country where few westerners dare to go. He finally reaches the Bamiyan Buddhas, just before they are destroyed.
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Iran - People of the Flame
Adams travels the Iranian wilderness in search of the Zoroastrians, an ancient people who have tended a holy flame for the last 1500 years.
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Pakistan - The Road to Shangri-La
Adams crosses the high mountains of Northern Pakistan in search of Shangri-La, immortalised by James Hilton in his classic Lost Horizons.
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Kamchatka - The Forbidden Zone
A journey through the arctic extremes of a primeval world; through the youngest landscape on the planet....across Far Eastern Siberia in search of some of the Cold War's darkest secrets - a journey to the beginning of the Earth.
ed2k: Journeys.to.the.Ends.of.the.Earth.Vol1of3.4of4.Kamchatka.Xvid.AC3.mvgroup.avi [746.89 Mb] 
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Volume 2
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Peru - The Lost City of Gold
Adams climbs the lonely Peruvian highlands to seek an Inca artefact that has never been found: The Golden Disk of the Sun. He finds the uncharted remains of an Incan ruin.
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Bolivia - The Last Trail of Butch and Sundance
Adams follows the long lost trail of two of the most wanted men in history: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. His path leads him through the Bolivian Andes.
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Cambodia - The Lost World of the Khmer Rouge
Year Zero. The Killing Fields. Preserved by war in the isolated and forbidding final refuge of the Khmer Rouge are tantalising hints of the "Asian Unicorn", the khting vor. David Adams journeys through the dark side of Cambodia in search of this semi mythical beast.
ed2k: Journeys.to.the.Ends.of.the.Earth.Vol2of3.3of4.Cambodia.Xvid.AC3.mvgroup.avi [746.90 Mb] 
Georgia - In Search of Jason and the Argonauts
From the Black Sea to the Caspian, from former-soviet Georgia to Azerbajan, a quest for the Golden Fleece through the powder keg of modern day Caucasia.
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Volume 3
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Niger - The Land of Fear
Adams travels across the simmering heat of the Sahara with a Tuareg caravan, haggles for a pillar of salt and skis down the biggest sand dune in the world. This is the Land of Fear.
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Libya - The Ancient Chariots of Libya
A vast desert country veiled from the East by fear, prejudice and misunderstanding. Adams follows in the wheel tracks of Ancient Rome's "chariots of fire" - the first wheeled vehicles to explore the Sahara and discover a little-known land of exotic brilliance, ancient cities and forbidding deserts.
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Ethiopia - Keepers of the Lost Ark
dams makes the pilgrimage from Lalibela to Gonder in the northern wilds of Ethiopia, and paddles by papyrus kayak across Lake Tana. His quest: to find the Ark of the Covenant.
ed2k: Journeys.to.the.Ends.of.the.Earth.Vol3of3.3of5.Ethiopia.Xvid.AC3.mvgroup.avi [746.89 Mb] 
Kenya - Swahili Sinbads
Adams sails by dhow from Lamu to Zanzibar, stopping off on the beaches of East Africa to haggle and barter for his sea passage. Sinbad lives again.
ed2k: Journeys.to.the.Ends.of.the.Earth.Vol3of3.4of5.Kenya.Xvid.AC3.mvgroup.avi [746.90 Mb] 
Sudan - The Mystery of the African Pharaohs
Adams crosses the vast northern Sudanese desert and sails down the Nile all the way to Khartoum. Along the way he finds the pyramids of Meroe, silent sentinels to a long lost civilisation.
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