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We are taking a trip through Pakistan's biggest city on a bus.

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This might be a bit crazy along the way.

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We are looking at dolphins in India from a paddle board.

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Wow, did you see that one?

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That was right behind me.

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And we are crossing the great Canadian prairie on a train.

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Hello and welcome to the Travel Show with me, Henry Golding,

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coming to you this week from amongst the soaring skyscrapers of Singapore

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where later on we will be meeting this week's global gourmet.

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But first...

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This is a country that some governments say

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you shouldn't visit as a tourist. Pakistan.

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Terror-related incidents, kidnappings and political turmoil

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have all taken their toll on the country's reputation.

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And as the country prepares to celebrate its

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70th anniversary of independence, the Travel Show's Benjamin Zand

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packed his backpack and headed for Karachi.

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Pakistan is in the news almost constantly,

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but coverage of this area is pretty one-dimensional.

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If it is not focusing on the Taliban, it is about

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the country's differences with India or cricket.

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But there is a lot more to it than that.

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The country is home to over 190 million people,

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and 63% are under 25.

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Many of these are fun loving, forward-thinking individuals

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who are changing the world.

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So I am on my way to meet some.

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Karachi is Pakistan's most dangerous and notorious city, but a security

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crackdown over the last few years means it has got a lot safer,

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and for a traveller like myself that means an experience like few others.

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It just might be a bit crazy along the way.

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All right, so I have changed into more suitable clothing

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because I want to get a taste of Karachi and when you think

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of a tour you usually think of a friendly tour guide,

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some foreigners, a casual stroll around the city.

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But in Karachi it is much different.

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It is done on one of these things. This is the Super Safari Express.

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In a city linked more with bombs and guns than tourist trips,

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the Super Savari seems a safe choice.

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But this is a unique kind of tour bus, created to change the image

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of Karachi not only locally but also around the world.

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Main aim - to help Karachi's population

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reconnect with their city.

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And help the rich meet the city's poorest members.

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In its early days, each tour will come with an armed guard,

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but as the situation has improved,

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it is now just this big, beautiful bus.

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I love this bus, it's incredible.

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Don't we all?

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What is the history of it?

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You see them everywhere in Karachi.

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Well, you know, the concept works on the lines of this actually

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being a representation of the brides of the guys who drive them.

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Obviously, you can climb on the roof,

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and who doesn't want to climb on the roof of a bus?

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Why do you think a city like Karachi needs

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something like this?

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There has been a disconnect between educated classes in Karachi

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and the general population.

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What we have tried to do is eliminate that disconnect

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and show everyone that the culture that you have, the history that

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you have, and the city that you live in is for everybody,

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whether you live in a mansion or you live in a slum.

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And do you do this because you think Karachi is misrepresented and it has

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a reputation it doesn't deserve?

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I will just say that there is so much more to Karachi than we know.

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The city just has so much depth.

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It has depth in terms of the people who live here,

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the cultures that exist, the lifestyles, the architecture,

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there is just so much to see.

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There is something special about this mosque

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that I have to show you.

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The tour takes visitors around the city

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in an attempt to show its diversity.

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You visit mosques, Hindu temples, churches, Karachi's version

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of the Big Ben, and then it is time for food.

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Sorry.

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I am going to ruin your tea party.

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What is this?

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This guy says traditional Pakistani breakfast.

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Yes, a traditional Pakistani breakfast is essential.

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So you get chai and a type of an omelette, essentially most

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things in Pakistan are made spicy, so the same with omelettes.

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I have noticed.

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My stomach noticed that a few days ago.

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You dip some of that in the chai.

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You actually dip it in the tea?

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Yeah. I am just ruining your tea.

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I have got soggy pieces of dough in your tea.

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Our next stop.

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So this is Lyari.

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Widely regarded as the most dangerous area of Karachi.

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Lyari has a pretty bad reputation, linked with gangs and violence

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it is known as the worst part of Karachi, but I was here to see

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what it was really like, and to play football.

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That is because I am in town to meet the people helping to change

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Lyari for the better.

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And it starts here.

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So here in Lyari there is only one thing people care about,

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There's over 175 registered clubs, and that's because these guys,

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like everybody else, absolutely love it.

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Anywhere you look you see Man United tops, Real Madrid tops

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and hopefully some Liverpool tops,

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and I am here to find out a bit more about why that is the case.

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This is our Lyari centre, in Lyari, a centre of excellence,

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where we have approximately 100 kids that come across to train

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four or five times a week.

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We give them free football coaching, we give them life skills

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sessions on top of it.

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So I have been asked to have a game with these kids,

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who look pretty good.

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Because I am wearing a Liverpool top,

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everybody thinks I play for Liverpool.

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A huge crowd has gathered.

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Yeah, look forward to me embarrassing myself

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in front of everybody.

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Here we go.

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After eyeing up the opposition, we began.

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Sand and heat, it is not a good combination.

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Soon, though, we were losing by two goals.

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Me and my new friend Michelle realised it was our moment and,

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after generously being awarded a free kick,

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I curled it into the corner.

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Then two penalties later we had won the game.

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After celebrating with my team, adequately named

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Benjamin's Liverpool Warriors, I spoke to Michelle

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about football here.

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She runs the local women's team and is trying to get more women

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involved in football and, amazingly enough, it turned out

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I had just witnessed her first ever game on this pitch.

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You were a little bit nervous about playing because you are

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like the only girl here.

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Is this the first time you have played here?

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It is the first time I have played here without any other girls,

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and if you were to look around, and there's a game going on there,

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and there's an academy here, I think I am the only female

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in this stadium right now.

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Sometimes we go into an area where the culture is just extremely

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male-dominated, and they don't want females to play.

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Despite the resistance from some people here,

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Michelle says things are getting better for female footballers.

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They have just set up a new women's team.

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I am really happy to say that we actually

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have a girls' centre here.

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From my point of view, it is brand-new for them, but the interest

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is in that they are eager to play, they are keen to play,

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which is something very difficult in Pakistan,

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to get girls excited about sports.

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There are 100 boys who come to the academy here,

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there are maybe 35 girls who come.

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That is about the ratio, but to me that is fantastic,

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because two years ago, there was zero.

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Up until about a week ago, I had no idea that anybody

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played football in Pakistan, never mind there was this

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conclave where it was huge.

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Cricket is the dominant sport, but cricket also comes

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from a colonial past, and football is picked up

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in areas that have been otherwise neglected.

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These guys have had to come up with their own recreation,

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solving their own problems, and football is kind

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of an inherited a game, solving your problems.

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I kind of want to hear some rap.

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So this really could not be more different from the image most people

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get when they think of Pakistan.

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Time now for this week's Global Gourmet, which this week comes

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from here in Singapore, and today we are looking at a style of food

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unique to this part of the world, Peranakan food,

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and a restaurant that has made quite a name for itself.

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What we do here is Peranakan cuisine with a slight modern approach.

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If you see Peranakan food, you kind of have

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the Malay flavours and curries, but at the same time

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you also have Chinese dishes, and you also have pork.

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So that is what is really unique about it.

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We are going to do slow-braised pork ribs with a kind of a curry.

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This is the dish that everyone recognises the Peranakan cuisine by.

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We always say if you can cook this dish well,

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it means that you can cook every other dish well.

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The base of most Peranakan dishes are really what we call

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a spice base, rempah, and typically they consist

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of a few ingredients like shalotts, garlic,

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nuts, shrimp paste, galangal, turmeric and lemongrass.

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Shrimp paste smells to some people bad,

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like socks that you have never washed for a week.

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To us, delicious.

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We are going to caramelise it with some oil until it dries up,

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and it has this really nice depth of flavour.

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There is something really rich,

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and it adds something special to the sauce.

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In our kind of food, you really have to take

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time and be patient.

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If you rush it, the food will not taste good.

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So now you start to smell the garlic, the lemongrass,

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the chilli and the turmeric.

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At this point, this is the smell that I grew up with,

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and that is really the thing

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that always reminds me of when I was young.

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So this is the base that we use to braise chicken or other things.

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So the meat, after braising up to three hours,

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absorbs all the spice flavours that we have put in

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and also it is nice and tender and moist in the centre.

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Slow-cooked pork ribs on the bone

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in black nut curry sauce and a black nut sambal on the top.

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It is probably the last dish I will want to have before,

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you know, bye-bye. That is how much it means to me.

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Still to come here on this week's Travel Show:

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Planes, trains, boats and bikes in the dead centre of Canada.

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So don't go away.

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The Travel Show, your essential guide wherever you are heading.

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My name is Spike Reid, I am an international mountain

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leader, and in October last year with some team-mates,

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I set off from the glacial source of the River Ganges

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and paddle-boarded all the way down the river to the Indian Ocean.

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We covered 3000 kilometres.

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It took 98 days.

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It was a tough journey.

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But it was certainly memorable.

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The expedition really began in earnest

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when we launched onto the river at Devprayag,

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which is where two rivers come together and form the Ganges proper.

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There's already a lot of flow,

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you have got these two raging torrents coming together.

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You jump on, and suddenly you have got these waves,

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you have got these flows, and it is like,

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"Right, can I stay on this board?"

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This is the mighty paddle board.

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It is 30 inches wide.

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It is virtually stable, I haven't really fallen in off it,

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and it has got such a great glide through the water.

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One of the biggest highlights on the whole trip

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was seeing the Gangetic river dolphin.

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They are one of the most endangered aquatic mammals in the whole world.

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Wow!

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Sorry, you are not seeing any of these.

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They are definitely dolphins.

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Did you see that one? That was right behind me.

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Trying to film these was really hard work.

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They never jump where you predict.

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Throughout the journey, local people were fascinated

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in what we were doing.

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We were working with a charity that is doing a huge amount

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of work here in terms of improving sanitation.

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It was quite sobering to see how many people are living

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without really any reliable clean water sources.

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The quality of the water in the Ganges is incredibly low.

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Another plastic cup.

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One of dozens upon dozens I have seen yesterday.

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We have been paddling seven, eight hours a day,

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and northern India in November, December, can be tough.

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Some mornings, the fog was so, so thick, it was like pea soup.

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Those last two and a half days were tough.

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One day I paddled 78 kilometres and was on the paddle

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board for about 13 hours.

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The end point of Ganges' delta is Gangasaga,

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and when I got there I was like, "This is open ocean."

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"There is no bank to my right, there is no bank to my left."

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"We are here, we are here, we have made it!"

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I felt so alive.

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Nice and salty.

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As well as learning a lot about the challenges

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facing these communities, I think I now know how

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far I can actually push myself.

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Spike Reid and his epic paddle board journey down the Ganges

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and if you are planning, or have completed an incredible

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journey of your own, why not let us know.

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And finally this week, the last of our films marking

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Canada's 150th anniversary.

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This week we are in Manitoba visiting communities that rely

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on a fragile rail link to the rest of the country.

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But that line has been closed by damage from storms.

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Its owners say they can't afford to repair it and the communities

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may have to take over the rail link themselves.

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Oh, my goodness, I can't see the communities

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surviving without the train.

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It has been the mode of travel for years.

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Cos it's an isolated community, so you have only got

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the train or a plane, but usually everyone uses the train.

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They rely on it, right, because how are you going to get food?

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It will cost too much for aeroplane charters or helicopters to come in.

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Yes, in the winter, providing you have a good winter season,

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we can have the winter road from January to March,

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three months, but that is it.

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Spring and summer, fall, it is by rail.

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Our elders, they all worked on the rail,

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and I was born up north by the railroad tracks.

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Growing up here, I used to go out and go fishing with my grandparents

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and my grandmother, and I would go berry picking,

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and she would cook me rabbit every morning for breakfast.

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Pretty good.

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We have grandchildren.

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We enjoy watching them grow up here, it is quiet.

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It has its challenges, this is where we actually started,

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where our family was actually begun.

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Can bears eat ants? Yeah.

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What is that? Yellow Creek.

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You know that giant mountain, like that mountain?

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Me and Noel Nolan, we walked over there.

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There is a lake.

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This is the kids' playground. They know every inch of this land.

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All this used to be a lake at one time.

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We are surrounded by swamp, and we can't build a road

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there because sometimes we would say bottomless, but it isn't feasible

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for us to put a road in there and put in half a mile

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of dirt in the ground.

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Some of the challenges are getting our food,

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our gas, our vehicles.

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Everything is a challenge up here.

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What I like is that the children here are able to go out anywhere,

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and they are always watched by the whole community.

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Especially after the school is over,

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they go out biking, they go out hunting.

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They really learn a lot from it,

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because it was our way of life a long time ago also.

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Owning the railroad, I know that our leadership

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has been pushing and have been staunch believers in the rail.

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It has been here for years.

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I believe it will be here for a lot more years.

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I am hoping that we will get partners who will want to help get

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the needs and necessities into the communities.

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That is all the time we have this week, but coming up next week...

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I only know Justin Bieber.

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You are a Belieber?

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I am a Belieber.

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Ben is getting in tune at a festival in Pakistan.

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# What are you waiting for?

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# What are you waiting for?

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I am about to step in the ring with Momo, who is a top contender.

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I am in Thailand learning the art of kicking.

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Join us for that if you can, but in the meantime,

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you can follow us on the road by joining our social-media feeds.

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All the details are on your screens now.

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But from me, Henry Golding and the rest of the Travel Show

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team here in Singapore, it is goodbye.

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Hello there.

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