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Outside the monks were giving thanks for the waters of the Nile. Here in Ethiopia we feel the water represents life to human beings. If man doesn't have water, he has to endue drought. The river Nile making its way around Ethiopia nutritious the coun
Rising up alongside confluence is the Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. I'd arrived in the city on a Friday. Islamic mystics known as Sufi were gathering at the edge of the city to perform a weekly sunset ritual. It harks back to the earliest days of I
The one thing that won't change in the future is Egypt's complete and art dependence on the Nile. So far Egypt has been able to discover all threaten other Nile state to prevent them tapping into the supply of Nile water. Most Egyptians believe it's
This is absolutely breath taking, it is actually quite hard to believe in some ways the Egyptians did what they did when they did it, at a time when the rest of the planet, or most of it anyway was in intellectual darkness, the Egyptians were creatin
We climbed the ruin side of the pyramid belonging to T*, the greatest of all Kushian f*, who not only ruled Sudan but the whole of Egypt as well. -What an epic view! This is spectacular! -Yeah. -This is what some historians recently arise has called
Now, with countries to the south demanding the right to take more water from the Nile, some commentators are saying Egypt cannot expect to have a monopoly on the river and might need to adapt to a future with a smaller share of the flow. I met up wit
In a fact the Nile altimeter measures the health of the country. It did me however, if I reach the right level, I would ...be taxed. The ..topped the area conquest of Egypt. The Nile lomiter was one of Islam first great constructions here. The grand
In 1968 the Beetles visited a religious retreat here known as an ashram for some soul searching and chanting, like them and hundreds of thousands of travellers who've since followed in their foot steps, i was going to be staying at an ashram. Looking
We're travelling along the Ganges, travelling down the Ganges, and i just want to know if you could perhaps help us to understand why is the Ganges so sacred to Indians? Ganga and me has a very special relation, when i was on the banks of Ganga, i co
In Kampool the river is effectively dead. No one ever thought this would happen. All the rubbish and sewage from the city goes into the river Ganges. Kampool has 400 tanneries. They also drain their poisonous water into the Ganges. Rack showed me a c
-We're just coming into the city of Varanasi. It's one of the oldest continued things inhabit its citizens in the world. It's a place that's said to be as old as Babylon.The same religious rituals have been practiced in the temples here for more than
-It's like a cathedral.-It's the biggest in China. China could soon overtake America to become the largest economy in the world. So the moral and ethical values chosen by people here to guide them are by extension their country, will have enormous im
But religious Chinese could only practise their faith with the state approval. This is still a country of control. On this journey along the Yangtze river we really encountered the official religion in China. In the far west of the country, there are
So many people in China said with the rise of capitalism, but China has become a tougher, harder place. With the development of the economy, people honestly connect to one and another. The family sizes all getting weaker. Always, the church is very n
-Yeah, we're on the Yangtze. We're doing what millions of Chinese migrants have done in recent decades, moving, going to the city. So it's been one of the biggest, if not the biggest, human migration in history, millions of people going from the coun
Basically India has the ability to turn off the taps on the river Ganges at this point. But Indias neighbor has paid high price. Since the barrage was completed in the 1970s, the Bangladesh government says the water flowing into the country has been
I travelled east, following the Yangtze to a small historic site close to the river just outside the booming city of Chongqing. -On my way to meet a guide who's gonna take me across the rest of China, meeting a sacred mountain. Oh, must be Lily. Lily
-Now people are more and more aware of this issue, because in the past 20 years, Chinese people were really focusing on, you know, develop the economy and get rid of the poverty. And nowadays, lots of people start to really watch the long, long term
As night fell, Lily and I naturally felt obliged to get a taste of onboard entertainment.-We are here to celebrate China's ancient culture. I've given a happy slapper and a light s*. Some people think of China as unfriendly and a little duller, not a
Although China is an officially atheist country, survey suggests that up to 85 percent of people here believe in something, either spiritual or religious. -First, you're gonna light this candle. -Light a candle. -According to Buddhism, to light the c