Mekong River Adventure - Part 1
During Part 1 of Joseph's Mekong River voyage through Cambodia and Vietnam he travels from the temple mountains of Angkor and its UNESCO World Heritage sites, to the river towns and villages of the Mekong river valley. Along the way he explores the country's history and spiritual roots in its ancient Buddhist pagodas and monasteries. On visits to weaving, stonecutter and silversmith villages, he celebrates the Cambodian people's creativity and resilience. In Cambodia's sprawling countryside against a backdrop of farmland and rice fields he comes face to face with Cambodia's tragic past in the killings fields of the Khmer Rouge genocide. As the first part of our journey concludes, Joseph is poised to enter the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh as he continues to go with the Mekong's flow on to Vietnam and the Mekong River Delta.
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Taiwan's Matsu Festival & Islands
We see preparations, gatherings and celebrations on some of Taiwan's islands for Matsu, the goddess of the sea, who is inside, outside, pretty much everywhere in Taiwan. Every year 1,000,000+ people come from all over the world to participate and be blessed during the 200 mile pilgrimage.
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Myanmar Irrawaddy River Journey
Joseph travels to Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, along the Irrawaddy River, where he engages in an exploration of golden pagodas, local markets (naturally), working villages and historic sites.
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Christmas Celebrations Around the Globe
We visit San Antonio and the various TexMex Christmas traditions. Then off to Venice, California for the Christmas canal races. Next we are whisked away to Montreux, Switzerland to be with the people at the market and to Rochers-de-Naye high into the Alps to visit Pere Noël in Santa's Village and then to Lausanne noted for the International Olympic Committee, and then to a German market in Basel. Merry Christmas from around the world.
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Taiwan Naturally
Joseph visits some beautiful natural parks, of which there are many in Taiwan, he visits some scenic areas and hot springs. 60% of this small island nation is forested. A local chef harvests many edible sea creatures. Taiwan has over 600 bird species and there is an annual bird-watching contest, people from all around the world attend.
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Those Who Came Back

Those Who Came Back

A small disparate group of people are aboard a multi-day, multi-stop flight from Mexico City to Buenos Aires. Beyond the crew of pilot, Roberto Beltrán, a loner, his co-pilot Carlos Cervantes who is always looking for love, and Paco the flight steward, the passengers are: spoiled and rich Jorge Mancera and his innocent fiancée Margarita Téllez, who are posing as a businessman and his secretary but who are really running away to elope in Venezuela; elderly Marta Ortos and her henpecked husband, Professor Enrique Ortos, a botanist and anthropologist, the two who probably only have stayed married for as long as they have out of inertia; "Pibe", a young adolescent boy who is traveling with his male nanny, Pedro, ahead of the boy's professional polo playing father who will join them in Buenos Aires on a later flight; Lucy Alcázar, who most of the other passengers believe to be a trollop as a young woman traveling alone; and Sr. Ibáñez, a bounty hunter, who is transporting Sr. Vázquez, a bank robber and murderer, back to Argentina, the country of the crimes, so that Ibáñez can collect his reward and Vázquez face certain execution. On the second leg of the flight, the plane is thrown far off course in a tropical storm, and combined with mechanical difficulties, they are forced to crash land somewhere in the jungle. Those that live through the crash have to band together for their survival, they needing to figure out if the natural order of their civilized lives applies in who will do what, most specifically who will make the important decisions. The plane may be repairable, but as time progresses and they learn of certain hazards in the area, they will have to make some difficult decisions in this matter, and in matters that may affect life or will affect certain death.

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