Petra The Travel Show

This week, I'm searching for treasure in Jordan. Let the master

get to work. It is beautiful. Plus we are inside one of Switzerland's

largest glaciers. We are starting this week in the

ancient city of Petra in Jordan. It was carved out of the desert over

2000 years ago by a local tribe. And at the time, it was one of the

world's wealthiest and most protected cities. This split in the

rocks is called the sink, and was the only entrance away in and out of

the city, and it would have been heavily guarded to stop anyone

sneaking in and trying to take over. It is just breathtaking.

At the end of the split is the most famous part of Petra, the Treasury.

An elaborate temple carved from the sandstone. That would be impressive

if we build that today, but that was built thousands of years ago. Look

at it. It is mind-boggling. I love this place. Can I move in? Just take

a look around. You can see how popular this place is. It is the

most visited in all of Jordan. Having all of these people here can

ring problems. The delicate rocks are easily damaged by tourists

touching the monument or walking of the designated trails, especially in

places where excavations are under way. But now there is a project

aimed at getting tourists themselves involved with the conservation of

the monuments. To help protect one of the most threatened sites in the

whole of Petra. This is the temple of winged lions,

a religious complex built in around 207A.D. -- 27. I am liking your

office, like what you have done with it. It is a beautiful place. This

man is in charge of the site and tells me how the problems started in

the 1970s when the temple 's first excavated. They uncovered this

monument to did not do a wonderful job of doing the things necessary to

preserve it for future generations. Whenever you excavate, you have to

pull a lot of earth out of the ground to reveal it. So this

building project dumped a lot of the Earth, so as you see, we are trying

to excavate again those early archaeological dumps. They are huge

fans of compressed earth which will take years to sort through. At the

moment there is a team of local people tackling this mammoth task.

We have specialist to come and work and train and work with the local

community, and not have them just be regular day labourers who help with

manual labour, betraying them in the changeable vocational skills to

propel them into preserving the site for the coming years. And the idea

is that the locals then train tourists to help out as well. We're

going to have them working on the soil dumps, looking for pottery and

coins and other things the original excavation missed. To have the

expense of doing archaeology for a day. I have skills. Do you have a

digger? Are you ready? Hello, hello! How are you guys doing? This is an

interesting route to get down here. Tell me what you are doing. We are

sifting these sense. These guys have grown up in Petra and have become

experts at sorting through the material here. So you are basically

sifting the dust and looking for vulnerable pieces. Can I have a go?

I was enjoying tasting the dust, but now... They show me the sort of

thing they are looking for. Normal stones. We don't need them. That

doesn't look very valuable. No. This is part of a jar. So that would be

the original people who live here? Yes. So that would be very old? Yes.

Wow. 2000 years old? Let's see if I can find any treasures? OK. Stand

back. Let the master get to work. Any scorpions? Is that cool? Let's

have a look. This one? That is stone? And this one? I am terrible.

I can't find anything! I might not be having much luck, but over the

last few years, they have found all sorts here. Painted pottery, coins,

lamps, and decorations from the temple. I hope when we do more, we

find more and more different and beautiful things. Once the material

has been sifted, it goes for cleaning. What are you doing?

How long have you been doing this for?

She tells me how working at the temple has been a lifeline for her

and her family. Can you tell me what is the most

exciting thing you have found all that you have cleaned while you have

been here? Can I see them? Row. That is beautiful. I like this

one. This is pretty cool. And what is this?

Wow. That is very old. Good? What do you reckon? I always fancied a

piercing. It is crazy to think that these

amazing it of jewellery and pottery have just been lying forgotten in a

pile of Earth. Now, a more pieces are retrieved and catalogued, it is

hoped we can learn more about the everyday lives of the people who

built this incredible city more than 2000 years ago.

Next, we catch up with our first explorer. This week, he visits

Vietnam to find out why coffee is the one drink most Vietnamese just

can't do without. It can over one B and initiated. It is loud, fast and

frenetic. The liquid that feels the chaos is coffee. Highly caffeinated

coffee. Wow, that is intense. Coffee is served in a way that is

uniquely Vietnamese. Bitter coffee slowly dripped from a filter into a

cup creating blends of condensed milk. It serves as a catalyst for a

favourite Vietnamese pastime, and recession. Have you ever done

during? Perhaps that is why locals are

getting a fix all over the city. Cafes, roadside stands, from the

back of bicycles. In many coffee shops, it is all about the

atmosphere. The trick can be knowing how in to find the city's infamous

cafes. This woman held me uncover them. -- man.

As far as I was concerned, Vietnamese coffee was not about the

flavour of the beans. IQ more about the perfect balance of bitter and

sweet, the conversations I had while watching the coffee drip, and secret

cafes I uncovered with new friends. For me, it was about extending a

cafe -- experiencing a cafe culture that was completely new to me. Still

to come on The Travel Show. Is this normal for it to be? It is not

normal in the season. Our record temperatures are affecting one of

Sweetland's by just places. Stay with us for that. ! Switzerland's

largest glaciers. White, light? The Travel Show, your essential guide,

where ever you are heading. Hello, and welcome to trend in trouble,

where we explore what is hard line in the world of travel. I will be

new to this essential apps, videos and blogs to take with you when you

leave home. Our top social media stories begin in Melbourne,

Australia, as it has recently been crowned the most liveable city for

the 60 in a row. The survey put together by the Economist gives the

world's major cities is Gore based on healthcare, education, culture,

environment and destruction. Melbourne wrapped up 97.5 points out

of a possible 100, narrowly beating Vienna by one point. You may

remember we covered back's attempt to walk every street in New York

earlier this year. But recently, 25-year-old boy Matthew just broke

his own record visiting every New York City subway in one Jenny. He

completed the Guinness world record in 21 hours and 28 minutes and 14

seconds -- journey. He planned an itinerary that do not leave a single

transfer to chance. Meet your key, the presenter of the world's first

travel blog hosted by a dog. The tourism board of York in England

have created a 3-part film series in which they say viewers can go on

adventures of the Yorkshire terrier. Loki attempts to showcase what

visitors can see in York and his running areas. For a unique hotel

x-rayed, this hotel in this results offers guests a medallist room 6463

feet above sea level with no walls, no roof and no bathroom. They come

in at a hefty 250 Swiss francs per night but this is not deterred

guests from fully putting them up this summer. We love staying

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Now let's look at the viral videos which have been clocking up the

views this month. When Leon visited New York from Germany, he

immediately fell in love with the place and decided to create a film

about the city. He writes on his Vimeo page that the main concept was

capturing the spirit and diversity of the city and I think you'll agree

that along the way he filmed some special moments. Filmmaker Sebastien

Linda went to Italy to create a short film based around his visit to

the elderly sole inhabitant of an abandoned village. Entitled Memento

Mori, which translated from Latin means remember you must die, the

film touches upon mortality but also aims to express a positive message.

And finally, to a country that is slowly opening up to more tourists,

Iran. In his film, director Pete hopes to convey some of the warmth

he received from the people during his visit there, saying that he

thought he knew what good hospitality was like, until he came

to Iran. And don't forget to check out our website for all the ways

that you can get in touch, or if you have seen anything online that you

think we should be looking at. See you next time. Next up, we are in

the Swiss Alps, famous for their peaks of ice and snow. But recent

temperatures in Switzerland have been some of the warmest on record,

and that is having a big impact on the country's glaziers, and the

tourist attractions that depend on the cooler climate -- glaciers. We

sent Jo Whalley to Iglesia to find out more. This is the tiny village

in the Swiss Alps which owes its existence and name to the Rhone

Glacier that sits above the valley. The word Gletsch means glacier in

Swiss German. This is the largest glacier in Switzerland, and also the

source of the river Rhone In the mid-19th century people started to

come here from all over Europe to see the glacier. At that point, even

in summertime it stretched all the way down to the village. Now the

view is very different. And you can see on this signpost just how far it

used to reach. In 1856 I would have been literally standing on the

glacier. It's strange to think that now you can't really see very much,

just a tiny bit of ice right at the top of the mountain. The scale of

the ice melt is extreme. Between 1856 and 2010, the glacier preceded

by more than 1400 metres. -- receded. Now, to see the glacier

properly, it is a short and very twisting drive from Gletsch up the

mountainside. It is very, very windy. In the 1900s, this was all

ice. Now, all I can see other scars in the rock. And here we can see the

Rhone Glacier. Glacier expert Doctor Vulcan explains how the melting rate

has accelerated in recent years. The end of the Rhone Glacier was in the

year 2011, was here by the end of the lake. And in the last five

years, the Rhone Glacier retreated about 150 metres. This is very

extreme. As the ice has retreated, a new lacy or lake has formed. The new

iceberg here. It is incredible to see mini icebergs floating across

the surface, but also alarming to think that, five years ago, this was

all solid ice. We walk down to a spot where you can see right

underneath the glacier. Unbelievable, you can see it! So

blue. Soap loo, very nice. It is all loose, isn't it, the ice? I can't

quite believe how quickly the water is pouring down from underneath the

glacier, and every few seconds whole chunks of ice are tumbling down from

up the top of it. It is quite heartbreaking, really. Is this

normal, for it to be... No, this is not normal. In this season, the

first two weeks in September was the hottest September since records

began in Switzerland, since 150 years. Why are the temperatures

rising so much? Because we have the global warming. Last year was the

warmest year globally, and also in Switzerland. It is two degrees to

warm in Switzerland. In 50 years, in 100 years, what will it look like

you? Just bare rock? All results show us that the Rhone Glacier will

melt back and back in the next decade is -- just bare rock. By the

end of this century only 10% of the ice volume will remain banned. --

will remain then. If the glacier does keep shrinking back, that will

affect tourism in this region. Most people who come here in summertime

come to see the Rhone Glacier ice grotto, which has been carved out

annually since 1870. Wow. It's very nice, blue eyes in this region. It

is beautiful. You can touch it, very nice. This tunnel through the ice is

100m long. I can't quite believe how beautiful it is. You can see the

very clear ice, the bubbles there. It is 200 years old, the ice here.

So blue. So blue, exactly. It's very nice. Here we are, in the heart of

the Rhone Glacier, in this glacier. It is so peaceful in here. It feels

like a Church of ice. Some worry the grotto might have an impact on the

melting of the glacier, but Doctor Volken tells me there is an

ingenious way to protect the ice above the tunnel. So we are standing

on the ice now? Now here, here are the blankets, and under these

blankets we have ice. These blankets here reflect very good sunlight,

variation. And so we have less irradiation, less energy to melt the

ice, yes. What impact do the blankets have on the temperature of

the ice? The blankets reduce the ice melting in the summertime from 50 to

70%, between June and September. I can see how the ice above the tunnel

is much better preserved, it is about ten metres higher than

anywhere else. Could you put blankets over the whole glacier? It

is not possible. This is too expensive. We have several 100

square kilometres of ice in the Swiss Alps and it is not possible to

cover all glaciers in Switzerland with these baguettes. The blankets

might be working well and a small area but as the rest of the ice

moves back, their impact will be lessened. And it is predicted even

more will disappear in the next decade. I feel lucky to have been

able to see it. Well, sadly that's it for this week. Try and catch us

next week, when... Carmen is in Peru, exploring one of South

America's most important ancient cities. Look at these stone houses,

there's hundreds of them. Don't forget, you can keep up with us in

all our travels, out here on the road, in real-time and social media.

All the details should be on the bottom of the screen. But for now,

form me and all of the Travel Show team here in Petra, it is good life.

-- it is goodbye. Friday's mixed bag of weather

offered our Weather Watchers a number of opportunities to get out

and capture all the faces Some glorious scenes out there,

there's no doubt about it.