BURMA. The Bagan Temples (13')
with the collaboration of:
Tour Operator Explorando
Orchestra Travel
Thai Airways
Tom Taccardi
Nicoletta Massardi

The ancient architects, who planned and erected the temples of Bagan, in the heart of Burma, today Myanmar, perhaps dreamed the mythic winged dragon could, a day, fly among the sacred cupolas. Thousand years later the flame roaring on the lowland is not the dragon breath, but a peaceful human work. The old balloon is now a modern technology, that allows us to watch, with a new view, other human works, much more ancient. The slow movement of the balloon, with its shape like a pagoda, carries us in a perfect silence over the cupolas....

BURMA. The fischermen of Ngapali (13')
with the collaboration of:
Tour Operator Explorando
Orchestra Travel
Thai Airways
Tom Taccardi
Nicoletta Massardi
Splendid flowers grow at the border of the beaches of Ngapali, in the south of Burma. Among the waves the sun golden lights at sunset become red, while the fishermen boats head for the best sites where they lower their palamito and throw the fishnets. A dazzling moon is soon fogged by the clouds, that, in the following morning, cover the whole sky. It is the hour of the return of fishermen .....

BURMA. The Inle lake (13')
with the collaboration of:
Tour Operator Explorando
Orchestra Travel
Thai Airways
Tom Taccardi
Nicoletta Massardi

It is tha dawn on the Inle lake, in the north Burma. The fishermen are already at work over their narrow wood pirogues; light and handy, the pirogues are indispensable for a particular kind of fishing. A big fish trap, long two meters, is driven down on the low bottom of the lake. With their feet, the fishermen hold the trap in vertical position. In the upper mouth, they thread a long stick, equipped with a harpoon, with which they try to pierce the fishes, catched in the trap.....

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BURMA. The golden temples (13')
with the collaboration of:
Tour Operator Explorando
Orchestra Travel
Thai Airways
Tom Taccardi
Nicoletta Massardi

The shadows descend over the Shwedagon pagoda at Yangoon, capital of Burma. Also the bonzos are tired at the end of a day laborious but important. It was begun shortly afterwards the dawn, when in the park the twitter of the birds overcame the annoying traffic noise. In a little temple, a sparrow drinks the sacred water....
BURMA. Mandalay (13')
with the collaboration of:
Tour Operator Explorando
Orchestra Travel
Thai Airways
Tom Taccardi
Nicoletta Massardi

A train overpasses the iron bridge over the Irrawaddy river, near Mandalay, Burma. It runs 1300 miles from the sources (Burman Himalaya) to the Andaman sea, crossing the country from the north to the south. The river provides an indispensable and easy comunication road in a country where the road conditions are not in good condition. Mandalay, the ancient capital, is one of the most important place of the country ......
INDIA. Kerala (25')
telecasted by RAI for GEO & GEO
with the collaboration of:
Indian National Tourist Office
Tour Operator Explorando
Travel Job
Tom Taccardi
Carlo De Alessandri
Nicoletta Massardi

Cochin is the ancient capital of the state of the south founded by Chinese fishermen.
But the region was colonised by the Portuguese and it was San Tommaso that brought Christianity, today covering 40% of the population, the apostle of ’52. The feast for the goddess Kali with elephants covered in gold, tea, coffee and cocoa plantations. Every kind of spice grows in Kerala like the riches of the sea that provide work for over 1000 fishing boats. The affrecos of the Mattancherry palace are the best in all India. The final wonders are provided by the backwaters: their canals that border the green rice fields and the fishing or farming villages, going about their daily life as if time had stopped.

INDIA. The Kaziranga park (13')
telecasted by RAI for GEO & GEO
with the collaboration of:
Indian National Tourist Office
Tour Operator Explorando
Tom Taccardi
Carlo De Alessandri
Nicoletta Massardi

With its 400 km area, corresd by the sacred Bramaputra river, the Kaziranga park is one of the most important in India, but it is not much haunted by the foreigners. The last 1300 indian one-horned rhino live in this park. This rhino is tall two meters, and is an insaziabile herbivorous. We succeeded to approach it on the back of an elephant to shoot it nearer. In the park lots and lots other animals live here: many species of deers, water buffalos, elephants, wildboars, tortoises. Many species of birds: eagles, buzzards, pelicans, herons, etc. There are also 80 bengal tigers: we were lucky to film one of these very closely.

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INDIA. Secret India (25')
telecasted by RAI for GEO & GEO
with the collaboration of:
Indian National Tourist Office
Tour Operator Explorando
Tom Taccardi
Carlo De Alessandri
Nicoletta Massardi

The yellow colour of the colza plantations is the last speck of colour in the gentle plain of the Brahmaputra river, we let in the rear, entering into the Arunachal Pradesh country. Henceforth the road penetrates into one of the roughest and secluded area of north-easter India, at the southern slopes of himalayan mountain-chain. The stagnant waters of the rice-fields leave suddenly room to the subtropical jungle, wild, uncultivated, uninhabited and refractory to any human intrusion. The narrow and uneven asphalt strip is the only bond with the thick populated land we left only just. .......
INDIA. The lost valley monastery (13')
telecasted by RAI for GEO & GEO
with the collaboration of:
Indian National Tourist Office
Tour Operator Explorando
Tom Taccardi
Carlo De Alessandri
Nicoletta Massardi

The Arunachal Pradesh, that is "rising sun land" by the ancient Sanskrit language, is an indian nord east region, joined the continent by the Brahmaputra river plain. Let the big river, we head towards the north, and go back the himalaian mountains, that limit the Tibet border, that is China. A little iron english bridge replaces an older bridge, falled in the river. The road penetrates in the valley, and we realize why this region is so isolated. Fifteen centuries ago other men leaved Tibet ......
INDIA. Gujarat (25')
telecasted by RAI for GEO & GEO
with the collaboration of:
Indian National Tourist Office
Tour Operator Explorando
Travel Job
Tom Taccardi
Carlo De Alessandri
Nicoletta Massardi
Vijay Kumar Gupta

The vast mosque of Amedabad, the capital, and its characteristic market. Further North the Rabari are encountered, nomad shepherds on the way to Buji near the border with Pakistan, the temple of Krishna and its holy men, the palaces of the Maharajahs of Gondal and Bavnagar. Palitana is the world centre for giainism: the restoration in course of a marble temple dominates a valley with a lake and fields of crops to provide a magnificent view. A village of Muslim fishermen, colourful and fascinating.
INDIA. Rajastan (25')
with the collaboration of:
Indian National Tourist Office
Tour Operator Explorando
Tom Taccardi

A journey around the Raja land, mysterious and fascinating. Here we "lived" the annual fair of the camels at Puskar. During this fair a purification rite happens for two millions people,
INDIA. Calcutta (16')
realizzato in collaborazione con:
Ufficio Nazionale del Turismo indiano
Tour Operator Explorando
Tom Taccardi

Le bellezze nascoste di una città che, nonostante la cattiva fama che goide, ha un fascino tra i più interessanti di tutta l'India. La gente, i templi, i bellissimi monumenti.
MALDIVE. The new Atlantis (25')
with the collaboration of:
Enzo Imbriano
dott. Claudio Mercurio
Natale Ciravolo

On board a boat, far from the tourist villages, one embarks on a voyage to a world that is rapidly disappearing in a sea that is unpolluted and rich in life. Shoals of grey sharks, playful mante, giant murene, turtles, tuna fishermen, traditional dances and a sunset that will take your breath away in a dream world.
CAMBODIA. The temple secret (25')
with the collaboration of:
Tour Operator Explorando
Thai Airways

A rainy dawn, a day like many others for thousand years. The men wake in the background of the Angkor temples. The first daily activities begin with a prayer, the men go in the rise fields. The only concession to the modernity is the bicycles. The ancient, immutable, enormous stone statue of King L’antica, immutabile, enorme effigie di pietra di re Jayavarma guards for nine centuries his kingdom and his subjects, turned to the four cardinal points.sorveglia benevolo da nove secoli il suo regno ed i suoi sudditi, rivolto ai quattro punti cardinali. A glorious dinasty began in the middle of the first millennium and lasted nine centuries. The dinasty goes by the name of Khmer.....