Amazing Train Journeys

- Season 1

(2011)

Beginning of the journey in Ho Chi Minh Ville or Saigon: great traffic of scooters (about 6 millions of scooters), A short look at the old French buildings: Notre Dame de Saigon, the Town Hall, the Post Office, the Opera.Now Philippe goes to the railway station: he sees how people send their scooters to another station.Meeting with a woman and talk about the smile (the best thing that we can give to other persons).Another encounter: two Buddhist nuns.Arrival at Da Nang.Philippe meet at Mi-Son Mr. Tien who shows him this religious center of the Chams (a civilization ...

Beginning of the journey in Guane: from there starts the first railway line build in America (1837) for the transport of sugar cane.Philippe takes the train to Los Palacios: pleasant atmosphere in the train, the passengers are smiling.Philippe asks why they travel by train and they answer it's more secure than by bus.Near Los Palacios Philippe meets sugar cane cutters: a quite hard job under the burning sun (for about 40 dollars a month).Then Philippe is in La Havana: he meets a family living in an old palace: the government give them rooms in this old building.Later ...

Begin of the journey in Mumbai (Bombay): India has a net of 64.000 kilometers of railways.We are in Victoria Station, the main railway station of Mumbai where about 7 millions of passengers are passing every day..Philippe visits the neighborhood of clothes washers: about 700 families doing this economical activities.Then Philippe takes the train to Cochin; there he meets fishermen using great traps to catch fishes.Then he goes to the neighborhood of the spices and visits a school of martial art (Kalaripayatu).Then travel to Alleppey and the Backwaters: a net of about ...

Beginning of the journey in Lima: there are only two trains a month leaving Lima for the Andes: the train of the clouds climbs the slopes of the Andes: Philippe has a nice talk with the train driver (every travel is a new experience for him).Then the train climbs making zig-zag (like in Ecuador): train arrives at 4.800 meters about the sea level:a nurse in the train provides oxygen to the people who feel weak.An Peruvian woman gives Philippe coca leaves to chew to avoid altitude sickness.In Huacavelica Philippe takes a minibus to visit a chopcca community: the end of ...

The travel begins in Dehli: just in the railways station there is a praying place near the rails.Then Philippe takes the train to Agra: What is the most famous monument in Agra ? The Tal Mahal, Philippe tells shortly the story of this monument dedicated to the spouse of a Mogol emperor.Not far from the Taj Mahal Philippe finds a Sikh temple which is open to every person who needs to pray to God.Besides this temple offers a meal to all the people who came for praying.Then another travel by to Gwalior: the Fortress, the Residence of the Maharaja and the statues under ...