I'd arrived in Egypt, the upper Aswan Dam was built in 1960's and generated electricity, provided reservoir of waters for farms and control flooding along the Nile, the result of rainy season in Ethiopia. Before the dam, heavy floods could decimate t

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The following day I was back on the road, heading across the desert. This is a part of Sudan beyond the reach of the river where little can survive. I was traveling to a region that was once home to the ancient Nile civilization now known as Nubia, i

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Can India's great river and a culture more than 3,500 years old survive the pressures of the 21st century? And there it is, the holy Ganges, it's a river that is revered as a Goddess, the reason i'm starting my journey here is because above this poin

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I am going on a series of astonishing adventures. Traveling along three of the mightiest rivers on the planet.These rivers have given rights to some of the world's greatest civilizations. For centuries, we washed their life-giving waters and feared t

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From their origins of melting glacier in the high Himalayas, thewaters of Ganges descend more than 12,000 feet, carving their way throughprecipitous gorges. There is half a mile drop. Although the Ganges is steepedin history and religious tradition,

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Have there any connection between Shiva and the Gangers? When you see the huge drag loss that Shiva has, and that's he is supposed to have tamed. The untamed ...Gangers. In his drag loss, yeah. So the Gangers close through his drag loss like the hill

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Swami is also head of foundations sponsoring free schools, a clinic, orphanages, and he is trying to organize a cleanup of the river Ganges. I'm very well, thank you, sorry to keep you waiting. Welcome home. Thank you very much indeed. Everything is

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Alternative spiritual practises obviously have inmmance a peer to the many western visitors who come here. Has was clearly evident in downtown rishcash. I found it to be last and break. Lovely new I step going on here...Gange astrology on palmistry c

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While Rishcash is a particular magnet for visitors from the west, where we're heading next is a major draw for Indian tourists. -Beautiful Ganges, *** is here. Meeting a friend who's guided me around India before. He suggested we meet at the statue o

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-I mean this is a land where compassion for animals is considered a major value. I mean it's a very basic value. -It's a religious code, as well. -It's a religious code, as well. And yet, because of the religion, it's become important just culturally

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Hindu's belif that to die within the confine of the city or to have gashes sgated with river here. to escape the board of circle of incorn nation, and achieve macshone or alternal libration. upper where we go, so we are going to very special place of

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From Haridwar. I followed the Ganges more than 300 miles South east to the major industry city. India's population has more than doubled in the last forty years. It's now more than 1.2 billion people in the country. The impact on the river has been a

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Is everybody here to die? Is that why people come here? We have come here for that, but we can only die here if it is written in our destiny. When did you come here? How long have you been here? It has been 18 years now. You both have been here for 1

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-Stepping into their shadow?-Yeah. It's like that. -It's 2014. India's got a space program. That's incredible. -That's India. Cremations here are public but rich events. The oldest son of the deceased's family leads the funeral rites. First, the body

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Varanasi was the most sacred place I've visited on the Ganges. There was no mistaking the power in the pull of its waters was a profoundly moving experience. The next morning, we followed the Ganges towards Patna, the state capital of Bihar. -It's ra

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She didn't really have a why, an explaination about why she is going.There isn't the why, it's a practice which is going on and on and on, it's a practice, you have to go to Ganga Sagar once in your life time, that's it, that's the why. India is chan

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Following the Yangtze, who've taken me into the heart of a country once cut off from the outside world, but that's now been transformed.-Look, what we as a species are capable of! It's displayed here and I think like nowhere else I've seen on planet

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-Without the river, without this bending river, China, as we know it, will not exist.The Yangtze river basin covers a fifth of China's land surface, and it's the bread basket of the nation. So crucial is the Yangtze to the existence of China that it

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The teachings of the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucious are also depicted in the Dazu Rock Carvings. This is the typical carvings to show the Confuciouss thoughts how it applies to peoples life. Confucian thoughts? Yes, thats the combination of t

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spiritual.... From Dazu Lily and I travel to the nearby city of Chongqing. Because of its postion in the middle of the Yangtze and the country, it's always been a major transport hub. Today, it's one of China's fastest growing cities.-Just coming to

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