Meet the Stans

Holidays in the Danger Zone: Meet the Stans is a four-part travel documentary on Central Asia, part of the Holidays in the Danger Zone series, produced and broadcast by BBC Correspondent (now This World). Written and presented by Simon Reeve, It was first broadcast from 3–6 November 2003, on BBC Two,[1] and internationally during 2004 and 2005.[2][3][4]

UZBEKISTAN - Simon Reeve at the Registan in the legendary Silk Road city of Samarkand

In the series Reeve visits four of the five former soviet Central Asia republics (not Turkmenistan). Travelling from the far north-west of Kazakhstan by the Russian border, he visits a former Soviet weapons lab,[5] goes east to the Chinese border, south through Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the edge of Afghanistan, and west to Uzbekistan and the legendary Silk Road cities of Samarkand and Bukhara.

See also

References
  1. "Holidays in the Danger Zone: Meet the Stans". BBC News. 31 October 2003. Retrieved 2 October 2009.
  2. Reeve, Simon (29 September 2003). "Meet the Stans". BBC News. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
  3. Guardian Article
  4. "CBC: Correspondent – December 20, 2004". Archived from the original on 5 March 2008.
  5. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3143462.stm


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