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In the final stretch of his Pacific Rim adventure, Michael Palin takes in Mexico City, Los Angeles and San Francisco before making his way up to Seattle.

Series 1
The explorer sets off from Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait on a 50,000-mile journey around the Pacific Rim. The first leg takes him from Alaska to Siberia.
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The intrepid ex-Python charms his way round the Pacific Rim. Here, he takes to the water in an open canoe trip through the middle of the Peruvian rainforest.
The intrepid ex-Python continues his travels round the Pacific Rim. Michael follows the 1,000-mile path of the Urubamba River by train, lorry, canoe and river boat.
Michael Palin is the perfect travel guide in this tour of the Pacific Rim. Here, he visits Cape Horn before moving on to Chile, a country of staggering beauty.
The much-loved former Python continues his mammoth trek, circling the Pacific Rim, as he travels through the heart of Australia and on to New Zealand.
The intrepid actor journeys across the dangerous Sulu Sea. He crosses the equator en route to Java and the Buddhist temple of Borobudur, then climbs an active volcano.
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Travelling through Vietnam, Michael stops off along the way to witness the changing face of Hanoi before boarding the Reunification Express for Saigon.
The traveller finds China to be a land of surprising contrasts as he treks toward the Vietnam border via Shanghai and the Yangtze river.
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The globetrotter learns how to tie a kimono and sleep on a futon in Japan before heading on to South Korea and briefly crossing the border into the communist North.
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