Meet the Stans


Holidays in the Danger Zone: Meet the Stans is a four-part travel documentary on Central Asia, part of the Holidays in the Danger Zone series, produced and broadcast by BBC Correspondent. Written and presented by Simon [Reeve (UK television presenter)|Simon Reeve], It was first broadcast from 3–6 November 2003, on BBC Two, and internationally during 2004 and 2005.
In the series Reeve visits four of the five former soviet Central Asia republics. Travelling from the far north-west of Kazakhstan by the Russian border,goes east to the Chinese border, south through Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the edge of Afghanistan, and west to Uzbekistan and the legendary Silk Road cities of Samarkand and Bukhara.