:00:00. > :00:00.Ukraine coming from our colleague Clive Mhairi in Amsterdam, and by
:00:00. > :00:00.our correspondent in Ukraine at 5pm. Now, it is time for The Travel
:00:00. > :00:09.Show. The scene of one of the most
:00:10. > :00:12.shocking and famous examples of mass human brutality, but who's stealing
:00:13. > :00:39.souvenirs from this historic site? This week, we find out why graffiti
:00:40. > :00:42.and vandalism are becoming a problem We take to the high seas and find
:00:43. > :00:56.out why people travel by cargo ship. We meet the lady who makes sure
:00:57. > :00:59.the cast are all suited and booted for some of London's
:01:00. > :01:03.most spectacular stage shows. It is not unusual
:01:04. > :01:05.for us to put someone who is a size 18 into a size ten dress,
:01:06. > :01:10.that is why it is a challenge. And I am in Borneo,
:01:11. > :01:19.meeting the world's smallest bear. Welcome to The Travel Show with me,
:01:20. > :01:22.Henry Golding, and Alan and Natalie, We are in Borneo at
:01:23. > :01:28.a special conservation centre which Join us later in the show to find
:01:29. > :01:33.out what the future holds for this Roughly equidistant from Krakow
:01:34. > :01:50.and the Czech border lies Auschwitz first opened as
:01:51. > :01:57.a museum in 1947, and, for many, it Damien McGuinness has been to the
:01:58. > :02:08.former concentration camp to find out why some of those visitors
:02:09. > :02:21.may now be causing a problem. It is arguably
:02:22. > :02:24.the most notorious and most visited More than
:02:25. > :02:31.a million people were gassed, Mainly Jews, but also non`Jewish
:02:32. > :02:41.Poles, Roma, and Soviet soldiers. The huge site is today
:02:42. > :02:43.a memorial which attracts But
:02:44. > :02:52.the authorities here are fighting a problem, graffiti, carved into the
:02:53. > :02:56.walls of barracks or the wooden bunk Very occasionally it is
:02:57. > :03:05.anti`Semitic, but more often People have such a need of
:03:06. > :03:12.documenting being in a historical place, and I think when you have a
:03:13. > :03:19.wall like that, the easy thing is to write your name, that you were here,
:03:20. > :03:23.but in fact people who do it destroy the building,
:03:24. > :03:27.so this is of course from the beginning something wrong for
:03:28. > :03:33.us, it damages, not destroys, but And stranger still some visitors
:03:34. > :03:43.even steal ghoulish souvenirs, A few hours' drive away,
:03:44. > :03:58.in the mountains of southern Poland, we visit Bernard Offen, an
:03:59. > :04:03.85`year`old survivor of the camps. He was sent to Auschwitz with
:04:04. > :04:08.his father when he was just 14. I was asking,
:04:09. > :04:12.what happened to my father? And they said,
:04:13. > :04:16.he went up the chimney. Bernard's father, mother,
:04:17. > :04:22.and sister were all murdered I ask him how he feels
:04:23. > :04:31.when he sees graffiti on the walls It is a denial
:04:32. > :04:43.of what transpired there. Because people are not
:04:44. > :04:45.taking it seriously? Not only are they not taking it
:04:46. > :04:50.seriously, they are in denial because what
:04:51. > :04:58.transpired there is so... It can be, it can make you sick
:04:59. > :05:03.if you really start to understand Only a tiny minority
:05:04. > :05:13.of the huge amount of visitors actually vandalise property here,
:05:14. > :05:16.and all the people I talked to were I think it's incredibly
:05:17. > :05:22.disrespectful. It's offensive to me as somebody
:05:23. > :05:27.coming from another country to visit here, the fact people would deface
:05:28. > :05:31.something that is so historical that I feel personally it is
:05:32. > :05:44.quite disrespectful. I know people are saying,
:05:45. > :05:46.rest in peace, etc, but it is disrespectful to the dead
:05:47. > :05:49.and what has happened here. Some graffiti was scratched
:05:50. > :05:57.by prisoners themselves in Probably these are the last words
:05:58. > :06:09.these women were able to write. The authorities say this
:06:10. > :06:12.graffiti must be preserved. But the main problem is how do you
:06:13. > :06:16.remove the modern graffiti without So the memorial has launched
:06:17. > :06:27.an ambitious conservation project. The first step is to analyse
:06:28. > :06:32.the old materials to find out how to save the buildings
:06:33. > :06:38.and remove the graffiti safely. Next year, conservation work itself
:06:39. > :06:41.starts, but one of the barracks has And here you can see the
:06:42. > :06:53.end aim of this mammoth conservation project, because that is what it is
:06:54. > :06:57.about, about, conservation, not renovation, and that means
:06:58. > :07:00.keeping the scars of history. So you have got the authenticity
:07:01. > :07:02.of the building, To a certain extent, the Auschwitz
:07:03. > :07:13.memorial appears to have become It has become so well`known
:07:14. > :07:21.as a place that reminds us of the crimes of
:07:22. > :07:24.the Nazis that some people seem to Damien McGuinness watching
:07:25. > :07:56.conservation efforts If you are planning a trip to South
:07:57. > :08:00.Africa this year, check that you have all the necessary paperwork.
:08:01. > :08:04.New rules state that, from October one, parents travelling to South
:08:05. > :08:08.Africa with a child under the age of 18 will need to produce an
:08:09. > :08:13.unabridged birth certificate showing the names of both parents.
:08:14. > :08:16.acknowledged that new regulations acknowledged that new regulations
:08:17. > :08:20.may be off`putting, the ticket early for single parents, but hopefully it
:08:21. > :08:27.won't stop people travelling to the country.
:08:28. > :08:30.It is already the most visited attraction in Peru, but new
:08:31. > :08:35.proposals to extend the opening hours of Machu Picchu have been met
:08:36. > :08:39.with concerns. At the moment, there are 2500 visitors per day to the
:08:40. > :08:43.World Heritage Site, but plans to extend opening hours until 8pm could
:08:44. > :08:48.double its capacity. Conservationists say such an
:08:49. > :08:54.increase could damage the ruins. And finally, how do you fancy a
:08:55. > :08:57.slide down this? The world's tallest water slide has opened in Kansas
:08:58. > :09:03.City, Ms Allred. Thrill seekers plummet from a flight as micro
:09:04. > :09:12.height of more than 50 metres at speeds of up to 70 mph, more than
:09:13. > :09:16.110 kilometres per hour. Its name is the German for crazy. Not that we
:09:17. > :09:29.are suggesting anything about the people who give it a try.
:09:30. > :09:34.Next, a new feature in which we meet some of the people who make our
:09:35. > :09:39.cities tick, and we start in London, where taking in a show is a major
:09:40. > :09:45.attraction, with a record 14 million seats sold last year. We go behind
:09:46. > :09:50.the scenes with the person who ensures that the thousands of cast
:09:51. > :09:58.members in the capital's most popular stages are dressed to
:09:59. > :10:04.perfection. For me, it is a really special way of telling a story. With
:10:05. > :10:10.music, and with dance, the emotions are really very strong. My name is
:10:11. > :10:17.Mel Barton and I am head of the costume workforce here at Royal
:10:18. > :10:22.Opera House. I think my main job, really, is to coordinate the work.
:10:23. > :10:27.We have six workrooms. It is really about making sure that everybody is
:10:28. > :10:32.supported in the way they need to be supported, that they have what they
:10:33. > :10:39.need to do the job. We have a deadline every week, so that can be
:10:40. > :10:43.quite demanding. This is our revival workroom, so our reason for being is
:10:44. > :10:48.to maintain integrity of the designs, to keep the costumes
:10:49. > :10:52.looking absolutely perfect. The majority of productions are
:10:53. > :10:56.revivals, they are existing productions that we need to get back
:10:57. > :11:00.on the stage. Lots of conservation work, restoration work, and, of
:11:01. > :11:05.course, alteration. One of the important things is that everything
:11:06. > :11:09.does that. It is not unusual to put someone of a size 18 into a size ten
:11:10. > :11:17.dress, which is a huge alteration, and, as you can imagine, quite a
:11:18. > :11:20.challenge. We are in our last performance for this season, the
:11:21. > :11:26.40th revival at Royal Opera House. It is 40 years old, we have probably
:11:27. > :11:30.revived it most seasons, it is tremendously popular. Also I am out
:11:31. > :11:45.of the fact that 60 to 70% of the costumes are original. This is a
:11:46. > :11:48.band uniform. We have six of them and it must have been purchased from
:11:49. > :11:53.the military supplier because you can see from the back here, the
:11:54. > :12:00.costumes were made in 1902, so these are our oldest costumes here. Every
:12:01. > :12:08.season we do 40 ` 45 productions. This will be made up of 35
:12:09. > :12:13.revivals, then maybe ten new productions. A large ballet or Opera
:12:14. > :12:20.will have 500, 600 costumes, bringing it to over 7000 fittings in
:12:21. > :12:22.a season. I think I feel satisfied if everything is on stage on time
:12:23. > :12:34.and looking good. Still to come on this week 's
:12:35. > :12:40.programme: I am in Borneo with the world 's smallest bare, finding out
:12:41. > :12:46.how this species is being saved from potential oblivion. But first...
:12:47. > :12:50.Next this week we are on the high seas. The number of passengers
:12:51. > :12:55.taking a cruise has increased by 20% in the last few years, and for most
:12:56. > :13:00.people that means travelling in the lap of luxury. But some travellers
:13:01. > :13:04.are opting for freight cruising. It is considerably less glamorous, so
:13:05. > :13:14.what is the attraction? Crystal finds out.
:13:15. > :13:22.Norway's Hurtigruten is the poster boy for cargo travel. A years ago
:13:23. > :13:25.the fleet started as a postal service of the west coast of Norway
:13:26. > :13:32.linking what were isolated communities. Now, though, it has
:13:33. > :13:36.become an attraction in its own right, taking tourists from the
:13:37. > :13:41.UNESCO world Heritage city of Bergen up the west and north coast, to a
:13:42. > :13:48.city not far from the Russian border. And it is crossing the
:13:49. > :13:51.Arctic circle that is one of the chief attractions here, with a
:13:52. > :13:56.creepy special guest and an unpleasant welcome ceremony.
:13:57. > :14:15.All the fun aside, there is still a crucial social function that the
:14:16. > :14:20.Hurtigruten provide. In the winter time there are times when even the
:14:21. > :14:25.planes, and all the small villages on the coast of Norway, there are
:14:26. > :14:29.airports but sometimes the weather is so bad that only the ships can
:14:30. > :14:34.come in so it is very important to get there. Meanwhile if you're in
:14:35. > :14:40.the Far East, how about a mammoth Pacific crossing? This line sales
:14:41. > :14:47.from South Korea all the way to California, and you should be at sea
:14:48. > :14:50.for ten days. Departure times are unreliable so be prepared for a long
:14:51. > :14:55.wait. This is a bona fides cargo ship.
:14:56. > :15:01.And these trips are not that much cheaper than your average cruise
:15:02. > :15:02.liner holiday, but there is one way you could travel on a freighter and
:15:03. > :15:15.actually get paid for it. Christophe Schwarz travelled to
:15:16. > :15:19.Shanghai from Hamburg via Rotterdam alone for the most part on a
:15:20. > :15:23.container ship, and made a film about it. He got a job as a ship
:15:24. > :15:32.steward, there to look after the hundreds of shipping containers. But
:15:33. > :15:37.a word of caution: If you are thinking about this route, the
:15:38. > :15:39.isolation and board instead start to cause Christophe to exhibit some
:15:40. > :15:44.fairly eccentric behaviour towards the end of the trip `` isolation on
:15:45. > :15:50.board did start to cause Christopher.
:15:51. > :15:56.But for Scott, the cargo ship adventure was inspirational. He took
:15:57. > :16:05.an 11 day journey from North Carolina to Antwerp in Belgium.
:16:06. > :16:12.For me personally, I had quit my job and I had been living abroad for a
:16:13. > :16:16.while, because I had no `` so I had no permanent residence any more. I
:16:17. > :16:20.was just trying to rediscover my true passions, and I needed time
:16:21. > :16:25.away from the noise of life and everything else. For me that was
:16:26. > :16:28.quite valuable, I was quite happy to be by myself and reflect on the
:16:29. > :16:34.things I have done and what I want to do next. So if you are in that
:16:35. > :16:42.part of your life it might be a good one. Scott paid 1500 euros for the
:16:43. > :16:46.trip, but was it really worth it? It depends on many different aspects of
:16:47. > :16:51.how you value your trip. If you are trying to get from point a to point
:16:52. > :16:55.B cheaply and quickly not the best value, but if you want a good long
:16:56. > :16:59.voyage and discover yourself and read a lot of books, of values. Good
:17:00. > :17:09.long the desire `` delights or otherwise
:17:10. > :17:16.of freight cruising. Finally this week my travels took me to Borneo,
:17:17. > :17:21.to the north of the island. Borneo is famous for wildlife including
:17:22. > :17:27.endangered and like the orangutan or the smarter and rhino, but by far my
:17:28. > :17:31.favourite and the cutest of them all if the Malaysian sun bear, so I have
:17:32. > :17:36.come to this conservation Centre to find out what they are doing to
:17:37. > :17:58.protect the future of the shy and elusive animals.
:17:59. > :18:04.snouts and soft paws. This is where the problems lie, people take them
:18:05. > :18:09.as pets. Add poaching and loss of habitat and these creatures don't
:18:10. > :18:12.have much going for them. Yellow the sun bear is the most adorable bear
:18:13. > :18:19.in the world, they are very good tree climbers. It takes a man of
:18:20. > :18:24.great fortitude and love for sun bears to make a difference, and this
:18:25. > :18:30.is just that man. He started the sanctuary back in 2008. Sun bears
:18:31. > :18:36.live in this type of dense tropical forest and they are very shiny,
:18:37. > :18:40.their density is low, and for conservation work on Endangered
:18:41. > :18:47.Species Act, the first step is to begin public support, `` on
:18:48. > :18:51.endangered species, and for public support, knowledge has to be there.
:18:52. > :18:56.Our centre has been open almost three months now. So many people
:18:57. > :19:02.coming and this is the first time they have heard of the sun bear.
:19:03. > :19:06.This is the first time they had seen what a Sunday looks like. I think it
:19:07. > :19:15.is amazing, and being able to see the sun `` sun bears being able to
:19:16. > :19:20.be rehabilitated, learning to climb, and look for food, open coconuts, it
:19:21. > :19:29.is amazing seeing them turn into real sun bears. There are currently
:19:30. > :19:34.33 rescued bears here into houses, a quarantine building and a number of
:19:35. > :19:40.forest enclosures. `` in two houses. Sadly many have already
:19:41. > :19:44.spent too long in cages, and in some cases they begin to exhibit odd
:19:45. > :19:50.behaviour brought on by years of abuse in terrible conditions. All of
:19:51. > :19:58.our bears were captured as very small cubs, and were then kept by
:19:59. > :20:03.humans as pets, and due to the point that the owners realised, this baby
:20:04. > :20:09.Bear Cub used to be very cute and is no longer cute any more. In the end,
:20:10. > :20:16.those bears will be killed, or they will sell them to a restaurant, for
:20:17. > :20:24.example, you know, to sell as body parts, meet, and if they are capable
:20:25. > :20:29.they would keep as a pet locked up in a small metal cage for the rest
:20:30. > :20:34.of their life, and that causes suffering. So it seems all these
:20:35. > :20:39.bears have sad stories. Are there any happy endings? Well, this is
:20:40. > :20:46.what we try to which Eve, and happy ending would be the bears going back
:20:47. > :20:54.to live in the forest, in the wild. This is what we try to achieve. I
:20:55. > :20:58.have always been a bit of a sucker when it comes to the cute and
:20:59. > :21:03.cuddly, and it just so happens I managed to pester Wong enough that
:21:04. > :21:08.he would let me feed them. Oh yes, it was definitely worth it. This is
:21:09. > :21:12.very exciting indeed, I think this will be my chance to get really
:21:13. > :21:37.close to the sun bears, especially when I am holding loads of food.
:21:38. > :21:47.literally seven metres away, just munching on the sugar cane and
:21:48. > :21:51.sweetcorn. What an absolute privilege it is to
:21:52. > :21:56.be this close to such a beautiful creature. I'm afraid that's all we
:21:57. > :21:59.have time for on The Travel Show this week. Join us next week for
:22:00. > :22:04.this. Date of birth, face shape, even my
:22:05. > :22:11.eye collar, it is all on here, but exactly who else has my data? `` my
:22:12. > :22:15.eye colour. Spying and surveillance remain powerful tools used by
:22:16. > :22:18.governments around the world. And next time you are heading off on
:22:19. > :22:25.holiday, don't think you are not being watched.
:22:26. > :22:30.That looks like a good one so catch it if you can. In the meantime, keep
:22:31. > :22:34.up`to`date with us on our travels by heading to our website or social
:22:35. > :22:38.media feeds. The details should be on your screen now. From me, Henry
:22:39. > :22:40.Golding, and the rest of The Travel Show team in Borneo, including the
:22:41. > :23:13.bears of course, it is goodbye. out across the UK at the moment. The
:23:14. > :23:14.sun is out for some, for others the rain is lashing