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A Book By The Same Name written by Palin was published to accompany the series. This book contained both Palin's text and many pictures by Basil Pao , the stills photographer on the team. Basil Pao also produced a separate book of the photographs he took during the journey, Inside Himalaya , a large coffee-table style book printed on glossy paper. EPISODES The program is divided up into six one-hour episodes. # North by Northwest - Countries visited: Pakistan . Features Khyber Pass , Peshawar , Gilgit , Chitral and K2 . # A Passage to India - Countries visited: Pakistan and India . Features Lahore , Amritsar , Shimla , Dharamsala and Srinagar , with a special meeting with the Dalai Lama . # Annapurna to Everest - Countries visited: Nepal and China ( Tibet province). Features Kathmandu , Pokhara , Annapurna Mountain and the Everest base camp (northern, Chinese side). Includes Palin's meeting with King Gyanendra of Nepal and a scare involving the Maoist Rebels . # The Roof of the World - Countries visited: China (Tibet and Qinghai provinces). Features Lhasa and Yushu . # Leaping Tiger, Naked Nagas - Countries visited: China ( Yunnan province) and India ( Nagaland state). Features Kunming , Lijiang , Lugu Lake and the Naga village of Longwa on the Indian- Burmese border. Includes a trek along Tiger Leaping Gorge . # Bhutan to the Bay of Bengal - Countries visited: India ( Assam state), Bhutan and Bangladesh . Concludes Michael Palin's journey. Features Kaziranga National Park , Thimphu , Sylhet , Dhaka and Chittagong . Ends on the Bay Of Bengal . This episode was one of the few instances where the media gave attention to the Grameen Bank and Muhammed Yunus 's efforts, in the micro-economic scale in Bangladesh before he was awarded the Nobel Prize for it. DVD EXTRA MATERIAL The program has been released as a three-disc DVD set. As extra material the DVDs contain the following:
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