Journey to the mystical east to visit some of the world's most remote and dramatic places. In Malaysia, the oldest jungle on earth is home to a remarkable people - the Iban, who send their young on journeys to the outside world and celebrate their return with festivals of dance and music. Then on to the Australian Outback of kangaroos and caves accompanied by settlers and Aborigines, as we unlock the secrets of a timeless land. From the red desert of Australia to one of the world's lushest landscapes, accompany us to the gorgeous green cliffs of China's Li River valley, captured forever by stroke of a painter's brush. Watch trained cormorants fish for their masters, and visit an opera unlike anything you've ever head before. Then trek to the roof of the world, the Himalayas of Nepal. Join a sherpa on a pillgrimage to a mountain monastery in the shadow of Everest, winding through a mountain paradise forever known as "Shangri-La," and attend a monks' festival as colorful as Mardi "Gras. All this and much more!