Simon’s travels have taken him to scores of
countries...
The Americas
- 2019
In
his most ambitious journey yet, Simon Reeve is
travelling the entire length of the Americas, through
the two continents that together make up a quarter of
Earth’s land space. It’s an incredible ride
through some of the most beautiful landscapes on the
planet.
In this first series (‘The
Americas with Simon Reeve’
- 5
x 1 hours) he’s travelling down through North
America, from the icy wilderness of Alaska to the
tropical heat of Costa Rica. Next year he’ll
embark on his second journey and second series (also 5
x 1 hours TBC) - through South America. The whole
journey will be documented over 10 x 1 hour
episodes.
Mediterranean
- 2018
Burma - 2018
Russia - 2017 -
Turkey - 2017 -
Greece
- 2016
In 'Greece with Simon Reeve', Simon travels around one
of the most beautiful, troubled and extreme countries
in Europe, from the islands of the Aegean to the rugged
and mountainous north.
Ireland
- 2015
Caribbean...
spring 2015
Wildfires 2014: Inside the
Inferno
Radio Times:
"Thrilling"
Sacred Rivers
- broadcast during 2014.
Reviews
The Tea Trail
and
The Coffee Trail
- 2014
PILGRIMAGE
- the greatest journeys of our ancestors (2013). Simon
travels from Holy Island in NE England to Canterbury,
then on to Rome (with a major diversion to Santiago de
Compostela in NW Spain), and then from Istanbul to
Jerusalem.
AUSTRALIA
- 2013 - the
first episode of Simon’s journey takes him from
the ‘red centre’ of the country south to
the wine region, then west to Perth. On the second he
travels across the remote and wild north to the Great
Barrier Reef. And his third takes him down the east
coast to the magnificent cities of Sydney and
Melbourne.
INDIAN OCEAN
- during 2011 Simon is travelling around the Indian
Ocean filming an epic new 6-part TV series.
Starting
his journey in South Africa, Simon travels around the
coast of the Indian Ocean, heading up the east coast of
Africa, around India and back down the western coast of
Indonesia to Australia. The extraordinary adventure
takes Simon to 16 countries, as he braves the horrors
of Mogadishu in Somalia, perhaps the most dangerous
place on the planet, and travels on to the beautiful
Maldives, Mauritius and the
Seychelles.
TROPIC OF CANCER
-
shown on BBC2 during March-April 2010 - Simon
embarked on his most ambitious journey yet, circling
the world following the line that marks the northern
border of the earth's tropical region. This epic
trip completed Simon's trilogy of journeys exploring
the tropics, after his acclaimed series Equator and
Tropic of Capricorn, and was his toughest, longest
and greatest challenge – a 6x60min journey
around the extraordinary TROPIC OF
CANCER.
Explore
- 2009 - in which
Simon and a team of BBC presenters travel to some of
the most exotic and extreme locations on earth. Explore
blends travel with current affairs to get under the
skin of some fascinating countries. Don’t just
visit…Explore!
Tropic of Capricorn
- this
journey starts in Namibia, and takes viewers through
Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Western
Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland, Chile,
Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. Photos from the first
leg here.
Equator
- a three part series broadcast on BBC2 during late
August and September 2006.
'Equator
was one of the best travel documentaries of recent
years. Like much of the best ‘travel’
television, Equator was no Wish You Were Here?
catalogue of exotic destinations, but a punchy blend of
of adventure and current affairs journalism' –
Dan Linstead, Editor,
Wanderlust travel
magazine
Places That Don’t Exist
- this five part BBC series on breakaway states and
unrecognised nations took Simon to 'countries'
including Somaliland, Transniestria, Nagorno-Karabkh,
Ajaria, South Ossetia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Somalia,
Moldova, Taiwan, and the former Soviet republic of
Georgia.
Meet the Stans
- during 2003 Simon travelled around Central Asia for
the four-part BBC series Meet the Stans, which has
since been shown around the world. Meet the Stans took
Simon from the far north-west of Kazakhstan, by the
Russian border, 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.
House of Saud,
written and presented by Simon, this programme was
broadcast on BBC2 and BBC World during Summer 2004.
House of Saud took Simon across Saudi Arabia, from
the cities of Riyadh and Jeddah, to the isolation of
the Empty Quarter desert.
Travel
Weekly:
‘When it comes to adventure tourism, author Simon
Reeve is king’
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