{"id":8281,"date":"2008-10-10T19:13:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T23:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=8281"},"modified":"2018-08-11T19:19:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T23:19:20","slug":"davidson-palin-2004-himalaya-with-michael-palin-six-episodes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=8281","title":{"rendered":"(Davidson \/ Palin 2004) Himalaya With Michael Palin [six episodes]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=8282\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8282\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/08-10-06-VIEW-Davidson-Palin-2004-Himalaya-With-Michael-Palin-six-episodes-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"08-10-06 VIEW (Davidson - Palin 2004) Himalaya With Michael Palin [six episodes]\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/08-10-06-VIEW-Davidson-Palin-2004-Himalaya-With-Michael-Palin-six-episodes-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/08-10-06-VIEW-Davidson-Palin-2004-Himalaya-With-Michael-Palin-six-episodes.jpg 593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a>I want to kill Michael Palin \u2014 pure\u00adly out of envy. He gets to trav\u00adel every\u00adwhere, see the coolest things, and talk to fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading peo\u00adple, and makes a for\u00adtune doing it. Palin was recent\u00adly ranked num\u00adber nine in the list of the world\u2019s top ten trav\u00adel\u00aders of all time by Wan\u00adder\u00adlust Mag\u00ada\u00adzine.&nbsp;It\u2019s been claimed that trav\u00adel agen\u00adcies antic\u00adi\u00adpate sharp spikes in book\u00adings for any des\u00adti\u00adna\u00adtion that he vis\u00adits, after an episode of one of his doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries.&nbsp;Himalaya is his best doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary series to date.&nbsp;This one takes him to the North\u00adwest Fron\u00adtier states of Pak\u00adistan, to Amrit\u00adsar in the Pun\u00adjab, to Sim\u00adla, to Kash\u00admir and Ladakh, through Nepal into Tibet, and from thence east\u00adward to Yun\u00adnan in Chi\u00adna, back through Naga\u00adland and Assam, into Bhutan, and final\u00adly to the shores of the Bay of Ben\u00adgal. In this spec\u00adtac\u00adu\u00adlar jour\u00adney, he meets and talks to a vari\u00adety of peo\u00adple: an enter\u00adpris\u00ading den\u00adtist in Peshawar; the Dalai Lama; Namu, a pop singer from the matrilo\u00adcal Mosuo peo\u00adple of Yun\u00adnan; a South\u00adern Bap\u00adtist head\u00adhunter in Naga\u00adland; danc\u00ading monks in Assam. Pal\u00adin\u2019s easy\u00adgo\u00ading affa\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty gives every\u00adone he talks to dig\u00adni\u00adty, which I think is the secret of his suc\u00adcess. You always get more than just scenery and plat\u00adi\u00adtudes. The series tip\u00adtoes around pol\u00adi\u00adtics, but its focus on indi\u00advid\u00adual lives and per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adties makes it an impres\u00adsive doc\u00adu\u00adment. For exam\u00adple, his vis\u00adit to the Sikh Gold\u00aden Tem\u00adple does\u00adn\u2019t focus on the splen\u00addour of the build\u00ading, but on the vol\u00adun\u00adteers prepar\u00ading the cus\u00adtom\u00adary meal, giv\u00aden to any\u00adone who comes to&nbsp;it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to kill Michael Palin \u2014 pure\u00adly out of envy. He gets to trav\u00adel every\u00adwhere, see the coolest things, and talk to fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading peo\u00adple, and makes a for\u00adtune doing it. Palin was recent\u00adly ranked num\u00adber nine in the&nbsp;list&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=8281\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[948,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-viewing","category-ds-viewing-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8283,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions\/8283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}