Cambodia The Travel Show

Hello and welcome to The Travel Show, with me, Henry Golding, coming

from Cambodia. This week I will be escaping the hustle and bustle of

Phnom Penh in search of getting up close and personal with some of the

wire life here. This is Maya. We sent them up to the Scottish

Highlands to find his way to the country's most remote pub. I can't

use a map, compass or GPS to help me get to my destination. All I'm going

to use as my sterling sense of direction and these tips from one

Briton's leading natural navigators. A few miles from Cambodia's bustling

capital Phnom Penh, a battle is being fought to preserve the balance

between Cambodia's wildlife and its environment. In the dance card

mountain rainforest towards the west of the country, the illegal logging,

coaching and endangering of animals is leaving many animals injured or

worse. I'm going to go and see what is

being done to stop the damage. At first, I want to visit a centre that

is showing tourists how it rehabilitates these injured animals.

Hello, I'm Henry. How are you? Good, yourself? Pleasure. Welcome to

our nursery over here. I can hear it from a mile off. This is where all

baby animals come. Look how precious they are! Beautiful. So many of

them. So these ones are all rescued by the airport. And the rescue team

went and rescued them and brought them here. What types of animals do

you actually accept? Anything, so anything that comes through our

doors we will take Tom that is wildlife. Really? We never say no to

an animal. Look at it! So this is Maya. And why is she here? Rescued

from the pet trade which is quite common with the animals coming to

us. They grow up a little bit older, and these ones in particular need

specialised care and they start getting sick and people don't want

them any more. So what are the main danger is that the wildlife here in

Cambodia actually face? Habitat destruction is one of the main

ones, illegal logging also. Not having enough food because their

habitats are being taken, and being illegally taken from the wild in

snares and food, and the pet trade because they are very cute. As much

as I would love to hold her, feed her, and just play with her, I

suppose, I can't, because part of the rehabilitation process is

limiting that human interaction, and the keepers essentially become their

surrogate mothers. Cambodia is one of Asia's top countries for exported

wildlife. It also has one of the worst deforestation rates in the

world. The country lost almost a quarter of its forest cover between

1973 and 2009. Illegal logging is blamed for some of this loss but

others point the finger at corporations and officials who did

deals which some to a land grab. Hello, little babies. A shift in

position from authorities gives far more protection to remaining

forest, welcome news for any monkeys in the market for a new home. Hello,

look at this place. It is like a playground. So what is the space

here so this is where our primates come from the nursery, and get to

habituate from other primates. Before being released back into the

wild. So there is a mix of species? So these are called some tales, and

the ones in the top of the enclosure are called longtailed macaques. A

tremendous amount of food, so that dish it out. So these ones are

six-month-old to one old. So why is it that we can actually interact

with these ones? Macaques live right next to human habitation in the

wild, everywhere, so it doesn't affect them as much. While. He

hears. -- wow. Here he is. He is beautiful. So this is cheap, our

youngest elephant in the park, and he has a prosthetic on the left

front foot here, and lost his leg to a hunting snare -- Chip. They are

trying to catch something much smaller like deer or wild boar or

monkeys for food, and he came into it by accident. We will change it

now, take the stock off and have a look at the stump. He is strong

enough he was able to pull out of the snare, as he tried to pull out

of it it has cut into his leg and cut the bottom of his leg off as he

struggled more and more. That is amazing, knows exactly what to do.

And he helps put it on as well. It is amazing. They are not worried

about who they catch? They are really not concerned as to what kind

of damage they are doing, but anybody who comes along can get

caught. Yes, so it is decimating wildlife populations across the

globe, particularly Southeast Asia. It is horrible. Later on in the

shower I will be raising deep into cardamom, joining the team sent to

tackle the problems facing the wildlife. That is shocking, to say

the least. Next up, then it's off to the wilds of the Scottish Highlands

to try his hand as a spot of natural navigation -- Ben is off. The art of

using nature and environment to tell you which way to go. Before

smartphones, GPS, before maps and compasses, how did we navigate the

world around us? I am in the North of Scotland to embark upon a

three-day hike across one of the country's most isolated regions. My

destination is home to the most isolated pub in Britain. I am going

to attempt it without any of the modern tools we use to find our way

around. So I can't use a map, a compass or GPS to help me get to my

destination. All I'm going to use as my sterling sense of direction and

these tips from one of Britain's leading natural navigators.

Navigation is the rout of finding a way using nature. It used to be used

all the time, of course, before humankind invented instruments it

was the only navigation we had and human beings found their way across

pretty much the whole planet using natural navigation. So it is

something as a species we are clearly capable of but it is also

something we have forgotten about. So I am going on a 30 mile hike

across the Highlands with no technology, which is terrifying.

Using natural navigation. Natural navigation. And you haven't done any

natural navigation? You may have bitten off more than you can Choo,

but we will see what we can do. What we want to do is look for a shape

called the plough. What we have got is seven stars, you want a line to

make things up on the ground to make a perfect north-south line. So the

path they need to take it somewhere north-west of here. The problem is,

I don't really know where north-west is. And that is where the power of

natural navigation comes in. OK, so there is a technique in this magical

book that tells me how to find north using the power of the sun. And it

involves me finding a stick. And hopefully making it stay up, there

we go. Next, mark the tip of the shadow with a small object. I will

use a pebble. And then I have to wait ten to 15 minutes and hopefully

the shadow will move. As the sun moves across the sky, the theory

goes you can use the shadow to chart a very rough east-west line. The

next step is to mark the new position with another stone. And I

need to draw a straight line. There we go. I stand with my left foot on

the first mark and stand with my right, and I faced straight. This

should be pretty much true North. Which means that a roundabout there

are should be north-west, which should hopefully be my destination.

Or if I've got it completely wrong, the middle of nowhere.

Once I know the direction, finding my path is fairly easy and I'm on my

way. Wow, this is the bridge from Harry Potter. It looks better in

real life. So I've made it to my house for the

night. It looks nice and cosy. Now let's see if I've got any

neighbours. Small houses like this one can be found all over the

Scottish Highlands. There are left open for hikers like myself to camp

in overnight. Welcome. I just need to set up my bed. I have some

neighbours over there. Hello. It's not the most glamorous of places to

stay, but it's quite nice. And voila. Today has been pretty

straightforward. And that -- and natural navigation has helped me get

to the bottom, what I still have 25 miles to go. Tomorrow I continue

north, which means my next challenge is to find the Northstar. In the

northern hemisphere the Northstar is a constant feature of the night sky.

OK, first only to find the plough. I can see it directly over me. This

illustration is actually extremely accurate. So if I follow that...

One, two, three, four... Five... I think that's it. Yeah, there it is.

So I've got to remember that the direction I'm headed tomorrow. And

we'll be digging up the rest of Ben's journey in next week's show.

In the meantime, if you are tempted to try natural navigation yourself

to make sure you set off with the right kit. Details on the link

below. Take a map and compass anyway just in case. Still to come on The

Travel Show, I'm on the back of a motet hunting the poachers hiding in

the Cambodian jungle. It is almost like trying to stay on a Bucking

Bronco. The Travel Show, your essential guide wherever you're

heading. TRANSLATION: I am from Hungary. I

have studied cooking and farming since 1969. In our kitchen we are

able to make 400 to 500 dishes from memory. We have six members of staff

who speak six different languages. Probably this is one of our secrets

to why we are so popular and obviously the quality.

The goulash is a very old, traditional Hungarian dish. It used

to be the food for the herdsman. Sometimes they had to butcher the

weaker cows and use them to make a stew or a soup in an open fire, with

locally grown vegetables and spices. The ingredients are carrots, roots,

celery, green peppers and caraway seeds. For me you can use Martin,

Cowell, sheep, boat or even if you don't have these animals you can use

chicken. -- mutton, cow. That's tasty as well. This is part of my

job, to make sure everything is OK at the front of house.

What the gentleman asked for is a type of lush -- goulash .

We do to two types of goulash, one with beans. Both of them are very

popular. This kind of dish you only need to have a bowl of it and it

keeps you going all day long. This province, a quiet province in part

of Cambodia, an area made up of a vast coastline, partially

inaccessible rainforest and barely a tourist in sight. But in the summer

tourists can pay to experience what the rangers in the front line of

trafficking and login here are dealing with. I was up at 6am trying

to get you for about 7am. This is a patrol station where I will meet the

team who will take me on patrol. Good morning. How are you? I am

Henry. I am 80. Lovely to meet you. Look pretty serious. We are

preparing to go on a daily patrol. -- I am Eddy.1 there are guns as

there is a real danger? Yes. The loggers are illegal poachers. They

never want to get caught by law enforcement people because if they

get caught they will go to jail. I am going to show you our evidence

stall. -- store. That is shocking to say the least. Have a look at how

many chainsaws they've actually commandeered from these illegal

loggers. How many would you say there are? Over 500. But this piece

of timber you see, this is the famous road would, expensive in

China. -- rosewood. And these would just be looped around the tree?

Waiting for someone to come along? Yes.

So, time for me to take on the criminals. Kind of. Let's go!

The majority of the roads are much like this or even worse. No

concrete, no tarmac, jungle, sand . It's pretty scary. We were stopping

for a bit of a war to break out in the distance there were two guys on

motorbikes who literally just left on their bike and run. Luckily one

of the guys saw that, started chasing and what happened is they

have dropped whatever they were carrying and this was it. Rosewood.

Yes. The perpetrators were too quick to get away this time. It is clearly

a tough job for this rangers. Making our way through the forest is hard

enough. This is the only way of getting these across without getting

the engine to flooded. Hopefully no crocodiles!

This road is getting bumpier and bumpier. It is almost like trying to

stay on a bucking bronco. The reason why the rangers are here is because

the mountain is Asia's only rainforest in the region and if we

don't protect them it will be gone and what it is gone -- once it is

gone it can't come back. So we are trying, with the government, to

prevent, stop, this from happening. This deforestation is destroying

animals' habitats and that's not the only man-made dangers they face

here. The remains of snares can be found all around. It's a strong

piece of stick. They played in the ground. They come and get the piece

of fruit and is getting caught. There is a bit missing. Yes, it is

missing the fruit. I believe something else is missing. So a lot

of these traps are designed to maim, rather than kill, so they can

keep -- collect them alive? Yes. Having seen the damage the mayors

like this can do to even much larger animals than their intended targets,

it is quite shocking to see them up close. With so many families in

rural Cambodia teetering just above the poverty line, I suspect that

most of those engaged in snaring and logging are just hoping for a way to

help themselves and their families get by. We missing it myself, I also

come face-to-face with the brutal impact it can have.

What an amazing place to finish off the patrol of the wildlife Alliance

ranges. I have to say this has probably been one of the most

gruelling shoots I've had with The Travel Show, but it has been

extremely fulfilling and it is just a glimpse into how much work

actually goes into protecting a place like this. I'm done, I'm

finished. I am going to go home and rest Mysore am, I think. A long day!

-- my sore bum. That's all the time we have for this

week. Coming up next week, Ben is still trying to find his way to

drink in the most part of Britain. I took this route headed north, but

along the way there's been a few more twists and turns than I

imagined, so I'm not British or refined headed in the right

direction. Join us for that if you can. And don't forget you can follow

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the details on the bottom of your screens now. From the Henry Golding

and the rest of The Travel Show in Cambodia, goodbye .

Unlike the last couple of weekends most of you can expect

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