MEET THE STANS -- episode 1&2: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

Please visit www.simonreeve.co.uk for more information.
Simon Reeve travels through Central Asia in this four-part BBC TV series, shown on BBC2, BBC World and by broadcasters internationally. The adventure took Simon from the far north-west of Kazakhstan, by the Russian border, 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.
The Guardian said it was 'a thrilling postcard from the edge'
The Times said: 'Simon Reeve's journey through Kazakhstan is a first-class Boys Own adventure on film and illuminating too. I can't imagine anyone switching off who stays for the first five minutes.'
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SIMON REEVE is an adventurer, TV presenter and New York Times bestselling author with a passion for travel, current affairs, history, conservation and the environment. He has been around the world three times for the BBC series Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, and Tropic of Cancer, and has travelled extensively in more than 100 countries. Simon's last journey around the Tropic of Cancer enthralled millions and was described by The Times of London as: "a real gem...Reeve is in a class of his own". Readers of a leading travel magazine voted it their favourite TV series. Simon, who is an ambassador for the nature conservation organisation WWF, has been awarded a One World Broadcasting Trust award for an "outstanding contribution to greater world understanding". His books include Tropic of Capricorn (published by BBC Books), and The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism, which warned of a new age of apocalyptic terrorism, and was the first in the world on bin Laden and al Qaeda. Originally published in 1998 it has been a New York Times bestseller. Simon has contributed to other studies into organised crime, terrorism, biological warfare and corruption. His book One Day in September: the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre was published in 2000. The film of the same name, narrated by the actor Michael Douglas, won an Oscar for best feature documentary.
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You can find out more information on Simon's journeys, and see more of Simon's films, at his website: www.simonreeve.co.uk or at www.youtube.com/shootandscribble
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[MrUlesus]

ITS NEARLY 10 YEARS OLD VIDEO.SO MANY THINS HAS CHANGED SINCE

[marioemparis]

what about turkmenistan?

[CocktaSlo]

You could at least write down when this was filmed, I assume it is around 10 years old. I was in KZ few months ago and life there is getting better exponently. Now it's already close to eastern europe.

Btw ships are almost gone (for iron) and the North Aral is rising again since 2 dams are finished.

Hahahah and if you constipation problems a good glass of shubat and vodka solves it like nothing else :D

[mappingtheshit]

Kazakhstan - the shittiest hole

[glasseay]

em ...

and they just keep that S#IT is just kept in a cooler with an hanging lock on it ????

FUUuuuuu

[superviewer]

Great !! besides the Al Qaeda bullshit talk. Most people now know that CIA invented "The Network" so let's get real about threat factors.

[TarlanT]

Damn it.

Why the hell there is russian music playing, while Kazakhstan is discussed?

[MrUlesus]

PARANOIC BRIT.....U R GONE MAD ABOUT SECURITY