It was a chilly morning, and I've been asked to wear what felt like a giant nappy. The emphasis in this class was on meditation and prayer as well as the correct physical posture. I was a natural.-How was that for you? -Good. -Why are you here? -Oh,...
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...
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...
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...
But down river the rapids are a bit more energetic, white water rafting is fairly new to India, but the tourist industry is growing rapidly along this beautiful section of the Ganges.That was fantastic. Yeah, really, really, you did it really well an...
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,...
So B. do actually sleeping here, do you stay here? Yeah. For twelve years.You've bee here in the cafe for 12 years? Yeah, we are holy men. We just have the clothes on our back. All year round? For the rest of our lives we are holy men. We never again...
The Ganges river basin covers nearly a third of India and has one of the largest populations of any river basin on earth, no other river is so important to India and none as holy, a billion Hindus worship the Ganges, it's known as Ganga as a Goddess,...
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...
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...
From the lush green fields of the Delta, the waters of the Nile flow onward towards the sea. Standing guard at the Mediterranean is the great port of Alexandria. I'd come to the end of my journey down the Nile. -Never ask. Remain it. I travelled almo...
I have a dancing horse. It dances, a horse, tell him. Would you buy it? -No, I do not want to buy a dancing horse. Producing the cotton for a single T-shirt can require more than 2,500 liters of water. So huge amounts of water are pumped out of the N...
The Nile has always been synonymous with Egypt. The ancient Greek historian H* called Egypt the gift of the Nile. Nowhere else is more evident than in the country's breadbasket, the Delta. From above, it's been described as a flowering lotus plant, a...
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...
