Across_the_Roof_of_the_World
封面
Across_the_Roof_of_the_World_cover0.jpg
影片信息
官方网站
暂无
影片原始规格:
中文片名 ：
中文系列名：
英文片名 ：Across the Roof of the World
英文系列名：
电视台 ：Others
语言 ：英语
版本 ：DVD
发行时间 ：1999
影片内容介绍
剧情简介
This programme documents a trip on motorbikes along the length of the Indian Himalaya. Producer/presenter Greg Grainger joins Indian motorcycle expedition leader Mike Ferris in the settlement of Gangotri, the source of the holy river Ganges then up into Ladahk - Little Tibet, and its capital Leh, then across the world’s highest road into Kashmir and the house-boat studded lakes of Srinagar..
Highlights include:
The inspirational snow-clad peaks of the Himalaya.
Holy men and pilgrims in ceremonial immersions in the Ganges.
The highest and roughest road in the world, to the Kadung La.
Traveling through frequent landslides and crossing flooded roads.
India’s vibrant culture, including the grass ladies, the field workers and the children.
Sunset ceremony in the holy pilgrimage town of Rishikesh, where the Beatles came to meet their guru.
The hitch-hikers: grass ladies, school girls, guitar-playing holy men.
The lush Kullu Valley.
Manali: Buddhist temple and ceremony, 5-thousand year old Hindu temple.
Tibetan tea tent at the Barralachala Pass, our first 4,800 metre pass.
Ladahk: high mountains, arid and eerily beautiful.
A community of Tibetan nomads, literally living straight off the backs of their sheep.
Historic Tibetan monasteries, including the thousand years old Thikse monastery, one of the finest examples of Tibetan buddhism in Ladakh.
Leh: Tibetan traders with weathered faces from another era, line its ancient streets.
The Ladahk Festival: procession of cultural troupes, dozens of diverse and different tribes, plus yak herders from Tibet, and a display of ancient archery.
The highly sacred Mount Kailas, in Tibet and the annual Wesac ceremony.
Numerous rituals are enacted, all to placate the gods.
The stunning Kashmir Valley and its houseboat-studded capital of Srinagar.