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Adams crosses the high mountains of Northern Pakistan in search of Shangri-La, immortalised by James Hilton his his classic novel of Lost Horizons.

Adams climbs the lonely Peruvian highlands to seek an inca artifact that has never been found: the Golden Disk of the Sun. He finds uncharted remains of an Inca ruin.

Adams crosses the vast northern Sudanese desert and sails down the Nile all the way to Khartoum. Along the way he finds the pyramids of Meroe, silent sentinels to a long-lost civilisation.

Once elephants roamed throughout Asia in vast herds, at the turn of the 20th century there were three hundred thousand in Thailand alone. But today just seeing an elephant in the wild is a rare and fleeting experience. Asia’s proud symbol of strength and power is disappearing, their numbers are in free fall, their habitat is being literally eaten away and their traditional forest pathways now lead them into danger.

Burma’s Open Road explores the lives of every day Burmese intertwined with the fortunes of the reconstruction of the Burma Road through Asia’s last great wilderness.

After three weeks of torrential rain and tropical growth, two metre high walls of arching elephant grass are the only suggestion of a trail. It meanders vaguely away through the unkempt palms of a deserted coconut plantation, it too rapidly being consumed by the jungle from which it was carved. An endowment from the King of Thailand to the elephants, the plantation is the latest addition to Kaeng Krachan National Park, a vast 3000 sqkm tract of rainforest that stretches south along the Thai / Myanmar border.