Burma with Simon Reeve

- Season 1

(2018)

Simon meets members of different groups in Burma including the majority Buddhist (monks) as well as minorities Christian Ming and persecuted Muslim Rohingya and investigates the tensions between these groups.

Simon travels to a jade market in the old Royal capital Mandalay. In the mountains he attends the fire balloon festival and meets a Shan minority rebel army who have been fighting the Burmese military. He also visits an elephant sanctuary and an primitive oil mine.