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00:00Welcome to India.
00:02If you think you know this incredible country, I urge you to think again.
00:06In this series, I'm going on a journey.
00:09It's the closest I'll ever get to being in the Hell's Angels.
00:12To explore this ancient, vibrant, complex and sometimes bewildering land.
00:17And to experience how old India is rubbing up against the new.
00:21This is a land of staggering contrasts.
00:241.4 billion people.
00:26Extreme poverty, spectacular wealth, all jostle alongside each other
00:31in a full-on riot of colourful chaos.
00:35From the Taj Mahal, the bustling markets, the slums and Bollywood movies,
00:40to million-pound homes and exotic palaces.
00:44And why would it be madness to miss out on all this?
00:48Every step, so impressive.
00:51How are you?
00:52How are you?
00:54So join me as I get a glimpse of traditional and modern India.
00:59A journey to feel the pulse of a nation and a people on the verge of something big.
01:04How are you?
01:07How are you?
01:16Again, um...
01:16Last time, I visited Mumbai, India's billionaire capital.
01:21A city where deep-rooted history and old traditions sit alongside new money.
01:27And Delhi, the most populated city in India.
01:31The country's vibrant capital.
01:34now I'm following in the footsteps of the 20 million international tourists that visit India
01:39every year I'm heading to one of its most popular destinations timeless Rajasthan
01:48Rajasthan is India's most regal state home to camels spectacular ancient forts and a place you
01:55might not have heard of the impressive tar desert but first I need to get there and my
02:02journey is not quite what I was expecting everywhere you go in India you see construction you fly over
02:09new metro lines new blocks of flats and now I am on a brand new road this 300 kilometer journey
02:20from
02:20Delhi to Rajasthan's capital Jaipur used to take visitors five hours but thanks to this freshly
02:27laid tarmac my journey time has been halved and there's not a tuk-tuk or a cow in sight this
02:34will
02:34be my first time in Rajasthan I can't help but imagine palaces shimmering in the heat market
02:41stores overflowing with spices vibrant colors how wrong could I be look there's a McDonald's here
02:53there's a KFC over there a subway there the quest is which am I going to go for for lunch
02:59I mean I
03:01just know this way I think KFC no no eyes too hot for this indecision I'm just gonna go for
03:09a sandwich
03:09over here this is what I'm learning about India the new and the old sits side by side but I'd
03:16like
03:16some of its old world charm ah Jaipur that's more like it Jaipur is home to four million people it
03:28was
03:29founded all the way back in 1727 and it's known as India's first planned city laid out in a grid
03:36system a bit like New York it's all centered around the grand city palace fast forward to the 19th century
03:45and Jaipur has established itself as a prosperous city which is when it adopted something that I
03:52think makes it particularly special its distinctive pink hue and there's an interesting story about that
04:01in 1876 the Prince of Wales later who would be Edward the seventh was scheduled to put in an appearance
04:07here
04:08in Jaipur as part of his grand tour of the subcontinent and to welcome him the Maharaja
04:14Sawai Ram Singh the second ordered that every building be painted pink which is the traditional
04:21color of hospitality and warmth and today these beautiful rosy buildings are as much a part of
04:27Jaipur's heritage as its glittering palaces and its gems and gems this city has a plenty beyond all the
04:37forts and palaces I was surprised to find that Jaipur is actually famous for something else it's the
04:44gemstone capital of the entire world now it's mrs. A's birthday soon so I thought I'd pay a visit to
04:51the most famous rock shop in all Rajasthan if not all India so I've got to be able to find
05:00something
05:01here hi hi the gem palace is a jewelry shop run by the Kasliwal family and it's pretty overwhelming
05:12first thing I've stumbled across is this display of cufflinks all these numbers on them of course
05:19not one of them is a price but they're very shiny the sparkling jewels here have drawn in some A
05:26-list
05:26choppers over the years that's Queen Lady Di Clinton and Susan Sarandon Gwyneth Paltrow amazing I mean
05:39they're all very beautiful I mean some very subtle smaller pieces and some not sure Mrs. A wants a
05:48job I don't know maybe maybe that's where I've been going wrong slightly overwhelming excuse me hi how
05:56do you do I'm Alexander I'm Samarth lovely to meet you very nice to meet you this is so it's
06:01a very
06:01famous place thank you it's been around in this exact location since 1852 as far as we can trace back
06:07we
06:07have always been jewelers so ninth generation is jewelers and even before stone cutters goldsmiths it's my
06:14wife's birthday um in about two weeks time I need to find something so jeopardy itself is really well known
06:22for
06:22having the most excellent emerald cutters in the world so we also end up having some of the nicest emeralds
06:29these precious green gemstones clock up some serious air miles to reach Jaipur mostly coming
06:35from as far away as Zambia and Brazil oh you see so they're not from Jaipur or Rajasthan they just
06:41come
06:41through because of the the craft it turns out that Jaipur is a city known for its skilled craftsmen
06:48and women everything from block printing textiles and pottery as well as jewelry today Jaipur is one
06:56of the world's leading gemstone cutting hubs it's estimated that 90 percent of the world's rough emeralds
07:03passed through Jaipur to be cut along with rubies sapphires aquamarine
07:09and not forgetting diamonds
07:13Samoth has agreed to show me some of the valuable pieces from the family's personal collection
07:18and boy am I in for a treat each and every piece is unique if you start repeating if you
07:24start a
07:25factory out of anything then it loses its charm come please have a seat for centuries India was the
07:31world's only known source of diamonds this piece truly shows you the workmanship of India you have
07:40370 carats of rose-cut diamonds which have been set so finely together that you know it really feels
07:46like fabric oh my word so you could just as easily wear it that way around you technically can but
07:52this
07:53is just my father used to call it the wearer's pleasure so it's only for the person wearing it
07:58wearer's pleasure that's beautiful I mean it's staggering the vulgar question that I'm trying to not to
08:04ask is what is the value of something like this so because we're never planning to sell it so we
08:12know I'm gonna keep that a secret yes but you can kind of imagine it has a few zeros in
08:19there I should
08:20think it probably does thousands hundreds of thousands a million two I don't know just in
08:26case you didn't get to see enough diamonds look at this piece this is what we call the elephant box
08:33and if you look at it closely you can't even count the number of elephants there that's just
08:38phenomenal detail I feel like a pirate I now understand why why they why they leered so much over there
08:47their treasure chests Samartha and his family are on a mission to reclaim some of India's heritage jewels
08:55so from this blue little pouch yes you're gonna see something special what you're about to see is 44
09:03carat diamond earrings and if that doesn't mean much the average rock size of a diamond engagement
09:09ring in the UK is about 0.8 carats so 44 is a lot of diamond these are old mine
09:17diamonds what are old
09:19mine done all mine diamonds are the diamonds which were found in India in the 18th century and early
09:2519th century and those mines are exhausted now but French dealers British dealers Russians they all came to
09:32India to collect these diamonds and they fought and they used to buy it for pennies and then they
09:36would sell it for a huge margin back in Europe our intention now is to actually collect these back
09:43can I ask how much these are worth almost 300,000 pounds yeah oops good thing those are diamonds clearly
09:53a
09:53faux pas diamonds are exceptionally hard but I wouldn't recommend dropping them in your local jewelers let's move on
09:59quickly so this is a 4000 carat pearl necklace hmm is this a look I'm gonna be able to pull
10:09off
10:11this goes like that you see the way it falls the weight is fabulous so this is what will transform
10:19you
10:20from the Maharaja of course I wonder I ever doubted there's just a clip on the back which I can
10:25pull
10:25it out from and this becomes a choker for the way and ah I haven't got anything for my wife
10:37well that very successful I got some absolutely beautiful exquisite cufflinks and some earrings
10:50coming up I explore the pink city in all its glory get a very special photograph taken
10:57it's magic and meet Jaipur's most menacing residents what's that they say slowly slowly catchy monkey
11:18India is firmly in the modern age somewhat surprisingly over 95% of households now own a mobile phone on
11:30the
11:30same road as the iconic 18th century have a mahal palace I found a spot that gives a window into
11:37a
11:37bygone era to come hello how do you do I'm then Tickham is one of India's last working street photographers
11:46please might have my photograph taken so what thank you excellent there's nothing modern about this since
11:57the 1970s Tickham has been working on this same sunny spot with his unique 1860 box camera
12:06don't know an antique that has been in his family for three generations I don't move my head at all
12:13it's been very precisely position that's I shouldn't talk I don't know anything taken yet amazing so that was
12:23his shutter and there it is he pulled the cap off the camera waved it round in a beautiful very
12:31beautiful
12:31motion and back it went on so the exposure was about a second and a half I'd say known as
12:37minute cameras
12:38they were once widely used across India to provide on-the-spot black-and-white photography for identity cards
12:45passports and mementos thanks to its built-in darkroom so I mean even now there is something
12:54incredibly exciting about what is going to be produced from this box it's a bit like watching a
12:59vet with a cow if you can imagine 175 years ago this must have been sorcery and there is a
13:06negative one
13:06moment it goes in there into the magic liquid so the photographs now being put upside down on this
13:15little extension thing from the end of the of the camera so the photograph is going to be taken of
13:23the negative Blimey this is complicated isn't it it's your right vet so what are you doing in there and
13:35magic magic magic magic I'm not impressed by a digital photography this on the other hand seems
13:43to come out of the air amazing yeah this is skilled photography and here it is good I think it's
13:51absolutely wonderful I've got a sort of H on my forehead like Rimmer there you go Red Dwarf fan and
13:58just like Rimmer from Red Dwarf I've time-travelled back to a simpler more old-fashioned India thanks to
14:05Tikam's remarkable camera most of Tikam's passing trade is made up of tourists which is big business
14:14here the city makes up one-third of the iconic golden triangle along with Delhi and Agra the holy trinity
14:22of
14:23Indian tourism and Jaipur has a lot to shout about it's just been voted the fifth best city in the
14:30world for tourists ranking above Venice would you believe if you're craving luxury the city has four
14:37palaces converted into hotels and they won't disappoint many tourists opt to follow in the footsteps of King
14:45Charles and Jackie Kennedy by visiting the Rambar Palace so far in India I've discovered how Hinduism plays
14:55a role in everyday life I'm heading to the east of the city to an ancient pilgrimage site to discover
15:03what happens when traditional beliefs and modern life collide
15:21this is the Sun Temple just one of many beautiful adornments in and around the city of Jaipur but life
15:29in
15:29Jaipur is not without its challenges in certain districts the residents have to share rather more
15:33than they'd like with some very cheeky monkeys you see in India monkeys are considered sacred due to the
15:42Hindu god Hanuman who's half monkey half man so Jaipur's macaque monkeys are extra special around here
15:54and no one loves them more than this man Vijay here has dedicated his life to feeding the monkeys in
16:01fact
16:01he's been here for the last 50 years every single day the same spot the same time
16:14what BJ hello hi hi hi can I ask what you what are you shouting now what are you calling
16:23as in my
16:23song this is your sound yeah would they know if I did it yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's good
16:34and why
16:34do you feed the monkeys I don't mind go I know man I see one go in full on a
16:39save your taggy
16:42man goes on to me if you have I'm not going to honor me to have today is extra special
16:49because
16:49it's a Saturday the most powerful day of the week to worship Hanuman and as a treat Vijay has brought
16:56ice cream many many monkey many many many many yes so you have to go back and get some more
17:02food
17:02every day every day same time they seem to treat you with respect be my total face and just like
17:17that the marvelous Vijay cycled off into the distance Vijay's love and adoration for the monkeys reminds
17:27me of an extraordinary building I visited in Delhi standing 33 meters tall the Jande Wallahan Hanuman
17:34temple is truly something to behold construction began back in 2008 but it took 13 years to complete I
17:43don't think I've ever seen anything quite like it and that's just the outside nearly 80 percent of
17:49India's population is Hindu and I always find it fascinating how unobtrusively that religion is
17:55woven into their everyday life when I say unobtrusively there you see next to the metro is a metro line
18:00right
18:00there you see the train going past that is Lord Hanuman the monkey god I'll try and give you a
18:04rundown of
18:05what he's good for protection from evil loyalty devotion success in difficult tasks mental focus and
18:14courage are particularly loved by athletes and students and above all relief from anxiety and
18:20nightmares I mean he's a he offers a terrific package his most auspicious days of Tuesdays and
18:25Saturdays we're actually here on a Wednesday so you might say we've got him on a quiet day you could
18:29perhaps go and have a look presumably I've got across the road here now this is lovely as every car
18:42and
18:43particularly every motorbike comes past they stop and they turn and offer a little devotion which of
18:48course all the traffic behind gets very cross about and then they turn up and they also do the same
18:51and
18:52occasionally a bus comes by and everybody sings a great commotion from the bus very lovely hidden
19:05within the giant monkey is a winding temple complex you enter via a huge gaping mouth to an elaborate
19:13interior filled with dazzling Hindu iconography there's music incense and prayer passages lead
19:22off in every direction with a steady stream pouring in to show their devotion there's another grotto here I
19:33guess of it it's very exciting down into a grotto beneath the grotto a sort of underworld here
19:50oh crikey
19:56wow
19:59this is terrifying
20:00and so lots of strange decapitations going on spouts of blood it's incredibly graphic
20:07it may look gory but I'm told that these scenes depict the cosmic struggle between good and evil
20:13divine forces fighting to restore order the violence isn't gratuitous it's symbolic and meant to terrify evil
20:22spirits now as I understand it there is there is one godhead in Hinduism and all of these separate
20:29parts personifications are just other symbols expressions of the same godhead this is the sacred pump
20:53very dramatic you know what fun to come fun is the word but it's exciting it's an enlivening process to
21:02come
21:03and maybe if you're feeling properly protected you can come down here and face the nightmares maybe
21:08that's the idea and you've then kind of wrung them out of your spirit after exploring the depths of the
21:16temple I venture upwards to revealing outside terrace I am at the very top it's interesting and this is still
21:25part of the temple but it's very much an everyday space it's someone's pants there but above here you get
21:32this view of the heart the great heart cavity and you can see the fingers there receded the hands
21:40mechanically reveal this brother pulpy open heart and there are these gilded characters inside waving
21:48Hanuman is said to have torn open his own chest to show his devotion revealing two gods Rama and Sita
21:55living inside his heart it's a real symbol of unwavering faith
22:03wonderful view of the match
22:10coming up I head south and meet some potential roommates they're sort of bunk beds and find
22:16out exactly how much money can be made from India's incredible traditional silk markets
22:28back in Jaipur I discover that these primates aren't quite as cute as they seem in fact
22:34they're known to terrorize the city and every resident has a story to tell
22:56controlling Jaipur's menacing monkeys is a hot topic 10,000 monkeys are born in the city every year
23:05that's where Vijay number two comes in so Vijay what exactly is your job my job is to catch the
23:11nuisance monkeys how many did you catch how my poor a Salman do I have been the packer
23:16naked out of the data table or she got to do she got to do you come back to do
23:20you can number
23:21three of us coffee birthday are they are there particular monkeys that are a nuisance or is it just the
23:26number of monkeys if I know anything about monkeys they're fiercely intelligent
23:48lots of wise old monkeys up there we're watching every bit of the setup the food is there there's a
23:54little filament wire what's that they say slowly slowly catchy monkey I think goody lucky catchy
24:01monkey these monkeys up here been watching everything no monkeys were caught today but
24:07when they are they're relocated to forests outside the city I'm not sure what the solution is to
24:13Jaipur's monkey problem but this situation seems to sum up India well it feels like a very Indian fudge
24:20this doesn't even got Vijay one and Vijay to both doing jobs that pull in completely opposite directions
24:25it's just a sort of beautiful chaotic totally dysfunctional cycle and somehow it just keeps
24:33turning very much like India itself as the Sun goes down and I bid farewell to the pink city it
24:51has an
24:51entirely different feel one where time stands still I can see why so many visitors fall in love with
25:02Jaipur Jaipur feels like the India of storybooks do you know what I mean there's opulent palaces forts and jewelry
25:16shops
25:17it's a city that was founded on strict aesthetic principles artisan districts and excellence and
25:24there's a kind of majesty that still dazzles to this day but what's interesting is that that sits
25:33seamlessly comfortably in the fabric of modern India in fact this is a country that lives in its past and
25:40its present simultaneously all the while barreling towards its future well I'm off on my travels
25:49again and after the beauty of Jaipur I'm now traveling 2,000 kilometers south to the tropical state of
25:56Karnataka it's India's sixth largest state and roughly the same size as England and Wales combined
26:06most people make a dash for the ancient city of Hampi where they take a peek at the rather marvelous
26:13rock
26:13formations and magnificent temples or make a beeline for the famous city of Mysore to witness the weekly
26:21illumination of Mysore Palace one of India's most visited sites but I'm taking a less trodden path I'm off to
26:32somewhere you've probably never heard of the city of Ramanagara and I promise you it's going to be
26:38worth it well we've now arrived in a new region of India we're down in the south and you can
26:45see it's a
26:45very different landscape a lot of agriculture around here for the past 240 years this region has been a
26:55major silk producing hub after China India is the second largest producer of silk in the world this
27:03region is famous for Mysore silk which is exceptionally luxurious all thanks to a strict diet made up
27:11exclusively of mulberry leaves this area thanks to its perfect blend of soil Sun and tradition has in a very
27:19quiet rural understated way become one of the world's greatest silk producing regions don't be fooled
27:28by this humble setup silk is big business last year the entire silk industry in India was valued at five
27:36billion pounds employing over nine million people now you can't produce silk without silkworms but I'll let
27:44you into a little secret they're actually caterpillars they're sort of bunk beds instead of new hostels like
27:55this hundreds and hundreds of great fat caterpillars is picking out on mulberry leaves they have a kind of
28:04yellowish tinge when they're ready and I can see a slight yellowishness about that one oh yeah there's a
28:10goats downstairs yeah goats living they're very nice very friendly neighbors once the silkworms are all
28:18grown up and have a belly full of mulberry leaves they're encouraged to spin their valuable cocoons and
28:25staggeringly each cocoon contains nearly a mile of silk thread they look like sort of they look like
28:32little Easter chicks these cocoons are then picked and taken to the nearby government cocoon market to be
28:41auctioned the largest market of its kind in all Asia it's an emporia of cocoons look at them just crates
28:53and crates and crates and crates and crates massive room full of these and just more over there as far
29:00as
29:01the eye I can see I've been told to find a man named side to a side is side are
29:08you side how do you do
29:10I don't know Jack finally gets a needle in a haystack side visits the market daily to purchase 200 kilos
29:17of
29:17cocoons for his factory which he then makes into silk thread while silk farming hasn't changed for thousands
29:25of years this market has undergone a modern revolution all the bidding is now done on your phone with a
29:32special app what time does the auction open action opens at 10 o'clock and ends at 10 30 exactly
29:40oh 10 30
29:40in the morning so it only lasts half an hour half an hour everybody has to come before 10 I
29:45see check the
29:46cocoons this happens every single day every day around 40,000 kilograms of cocoons are sold here daily
29:55about the weight of three London buses and it's all done within that tiny half-hour window in the morning
30:02so how did you end up in this business my father used to do the same business were you always
30:07going to do
30:07this my background actually saying if because of you standing here my bid is not working on no
30:24we're affecting his job yeah but this is as seen on TV you can say you can put that on
30:29the bottom
30:30we'll move on so how does it all work prospective buyers come around and check the quality of their
30:37lots the aim is to find the softest cocoons because they're the easiest to unravel and so the cheapest
30:43to process into thread once you've chosen your cocoons you need to find the lot number on the app sound
30:50easy well sort of so this this is not number 84 the bid is going on 366 rupees is that
31:00a good for fair
31:01price loss this is not good one and what about over here what are these like is this is this
31:06a good
31:07this one is a good one I mean even I can feel that so that's I could sleep in that
31:10I can just curl
31:12down and just well it is good now we just need to win it and got a lot number here
31:19273 it is going
31:20200 200 I mean this is a steal isn't it I will apply 400 okay there we go 400 our
31:27bid is appearing on
31:28the board it's just gone up oh the another person had been at 401 I bid you this is a
31:35bidding war go
31:37forward to 402 go on 402 it's going forward to that's hilarious okay five to five I will be that
31:44last five seconds what are you gonna put in five to ten rupees extra for 15 seconds left
31:53five seconds left you bid we did five three three and bid is over look at that you've got it
32:02for five
32:02three three seven hundred pounds has got Syed 150 kilograms of some pretty decent cocoons now all
32:11he needs to do is spin them into silk thread a real bargain if you ask me probably coming up
32:19I travel
32:20west and journey deep into rural Karnataka to meet a woman who shunned city life for a slice of
32:26paradise right here they were you last night and go searching for India's most elusive predator the
32:33tiger or alarm calls tiger India's population has more than tripled in the past 70 years from 361
32:48million to over 1.4 billion people despite this huge rise India has managed to preserve pockets of
32:56wilderness so I'm making the 100 kilometer journey west from Ramanagara to Bandipur one of a hundred and
33:06seven national parks across the country to get a taste of India's wild side the national parks been so
33:13incredibly successful both from a conservation and a breeding program point of view that they're
33:19they begin to run out of space today India is home to more than 3,600 Tigers a figure that
33:28has doubled in
33:28the past 20 years and now amounts to 75 percent of the world's entire tiger population success right well
33:37not quite India's Tigers are still in danger and now more than ever people and predators are beginning
33:43to feel the squeeze those beautiful dear I guess is free-range food I'm meeting wildlife artist and
33:55accidental conservationist Sunita Dhariam who for the past 30 years has lived on the extremes of the tiger
34:03reserve in the village of Mangala one of 15 villages that border the reserve hi how nice to meet you
34:11and
34:11you Sunita runs a charity that compensates villagers who've lost valuable livestock to the reserves
34:18predators which makes sense when you realize just how close people are living to them what I can't get
34:24over Sunita's this is the actual reserve here isn't it well this is my land and then the reserve there
34:29yes look at my fence elephants are here every day oh so how do you get right here yeah they
34:37were you
34:37last night what do you hear what tells you that an elephant's there you can hear them breathing taking
34:43the bleeds and a few farts here and there and you have elephants here that presumably means you have
34:52tigers here yes I came out by my room the other night and now there was a tiger here well
34:57this might
34:58sound romantic to have a tiger come to tea the reality is far from it especially if you own
35:04livestock you know in India some of the poorest communities share the same space as the wildlife
35:10the villagers started asking me to come out and take photographs of their cattle that had been killed
35:16I realized nobody no scientists no big NGOs coming to help these people so what was happening tiger comes
35:22kills the cow they go and put poison poisoning of carcasses as revenge killing the villagers
35:29were systematically wiping out a tiger and leopard population but from the farmers point of view
35:35there's their livelihood yeah and so they're thinking to help put this into perspective the average
35:41daily wage around here is 400 rupees roughly three pounds fifty and prized livestock can cost upwards of
35:49seven hundred pounds per animal when I started the Mariama Charitable Trust I said we need to start
35:55paying compensation to stop poisoning and people said you're mad it cannot be done where you going
35:59to get the money so that your charity pays the compensation and is that sufficient to stop them
36:04poison more or less it's poisoning has completely stopped really it's actually worked the Mariama Charitable
36:12Trust works across 660 villages and pays out instant compensation to livestock owners but before any money is
36:20exchanged every kill is evaluated by Sunita's team so Alexander yes these are my compensation files these
36:30pictures aren't for the faint-hearted this was my first kill this was a huge hybrid cow yeah and right
36:40near my
36:40house actually and that's unmistakably tiger is it oh yes yes so every single kill is identified or the
36:47teeth marks claw marks and these give all the the details of how much we've given the check number yeah
36:53who has killed it with a tiger leopard wild dog thumbprint if they can't write the data you're assembling here
37:00is
37:01extraordinary you can it's years of data yeah years and are you seeing increases as the as the years
37:07go by yes because there are more tigers and not enough space this is a result of a good thing
37:13because
37:13of the success of the wildlife programs but it was going to get more and more tigers there are going
37:17to be
37:18more you know what we need to share the same space with all the wildlife ultimately it's very difficult to
37:24farm in these areas they have the tolerance but when they lose something that's costing them money these are very
37:29poor people yeah and you're dealing with poverty the whole thing is to make people financially secure
37:35if we can help them there people are very happy to live side by side
37:43india's growing middle class is driving a tourism boom across the country and safaris have now become a
37:50popular weekend getaway every day around 600 people visit the bandit poor national park
37:56and they're all hoping for one thing to see a tiger i've never seen one in the wild before sunita
38:05has
38:06kindly agreed to let me join her on an evening safari and there have been whispers of a tiger roaming
38:12nearby
38:13just a couple of hours ago this tigress tried to catch a spotted deer they saw her actually hunting and
38:21she missed
38:25oh alarm calls alarm calls which means a tiger approaching what animal is making the alarm call
38:33these spotted deer there can you hear that i like that
38:41quietened down now all the spotted deer were on high alert so the tiger is moving
38:52on high alert so the tiger is moving and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking
39:00chatting with the peacocks that was not bad actually
39:05oh look at that wild elephants oh yeah more
39:10wow
39:11Wow.
39:17Indian elephants are a subspecies of the Asian elephant.
39:21They're smaller than their African cousins,
39:23and just like India's tigers, they are an endangered species.
39:27They're part of the same herd. Yeah, yeah.
39:30Look at that little boy. He's got tusks.
39:33Oh, yes, here he has.
39:35He's very precocious.
39:37Yes.
39:40That was an alarm call. Did you hear it?
39:42So that's over there?
39:44That's...yeah.
39:44I mean, that's where the tiger is from.
39:46Whatever has moved, it's moved from here and gone that side.
39:49She's hunting.
39:51She's hunting at speed.
39:55Quickly. Hold on, hold on.
39:57Something is there.
39:58That's just come through, is it?
39:59Yes.
40:01Amazing.
40:05Hang on. Hang on.
40:12Somewhere here.
40:15Tiger.
40:16Spot a deer. Alarm calls.
40:19There, there, there.
40:20But she's moving around.
40:23One sec, one sec.
40:25Look.
40:25All the deer are coming this way.
40:29They are mighty nervous.
40:32They can sense something.
40:36She's that side somewhere.
40:39The ever-elusive tiger.
40:41You know?
40:45Oh, Alexander, you have to see this.
40:48There is a leopard sitting on a fork of the tree.
40:53Oh, there!
40:54Can you see it?
40:55It's got a kill also.
40:57It's quite high up.
40:58It's safe from other scavengers.
41:00Right.
41:00You know?
41:01It looks terribly relaxed up there, I must say.
41:04Very relaxed.
41:04He has no, he has no time for us.
41:06So he's like, bugger off everybody.
41:08Yeah.
41:08Oh, look, turning to look at us.
41:10Oh!
41:11Oh, my.
41:15Now the sun's going down, so picturesque.
41:18It's so beautiful.
41:21I love it with a passion that's beyond reason.
41:27Spending just a short while here in the park, I can totally understand Sunita's love for this place.
41:33It's a corner of India where the air is fresh, the land is untamed, and wild animals roam free.
41:44Next time, I'm in the modern city of Bangalore, where the future is galloping towards us.
41:51But the luxury of the past still very much lingers.
41:54Would I be thrown out?
41:56These shoes would not be allowed.
41:59And I discover plenty of surprises.
42:02I haven't even heard of it, Gizwai.
42:04Yeah.
42:05In a city that's bursting at the seams.
42:08It's the closest I'll ever get to being in the Hells Angels.
42:12Building the impossible with Rob Bell explores the wonder that is the Panama Canal brand new tomorrow at 8.
42:19Bland and quite depressing.
42:22Ouch.
42:22The review is gonna sting as the hotel inspector gives it straight.
42:26Brand new and next on 5.
42:37?
42:37?
42:38?
42:38?
42:39Book now.
42:40?
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