Tropic of Cancer
Simon Reeve makes another trip around the world, like in Tropic of Capricorn, but now in the Northern hemisphere, along the Tropic of Cancer. Simon thus visits Mexico, the Caribean, Northern Africa, Arabia, India, Bangla Desh, Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Taiwan and Hawai. Local conditions, people, wildlife, history, culture, politics, ecology prove quite varied.
- 2010-2010
- 1 season
- Documentary
Simon Reeve makes another trip around the world, like in Tropic of Capricorn, but now in the Northern hemisphere, along the Tropic of Cancer. Simon thus visits Mexico, the Caribean, Northern Africa, Arabia, India, Bangla Desh, Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Taiwan and Hawai. Local conditions, people, wildlife, history, culture, politics, ecology prove quite varied.
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Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1
Mexico to the Bahamas
59 mins
Simon starts his world trip along the northern border of the tropics in Mexico, a country of contrasts. Tourism and NAFTA-investment bring dollars and affluent foreigners, while poor Mexican (mostly illegal) migrants and drugs leave to the US. Exploitation, a violence-saturated culture (even a patron saint of drug crime) and ecological disaster result. Simon also tries "lucha libre", the local show wrestling. On Castro's Cuba, anti-Americanism and the US blockade are harder to bear since the Soviet collapse. Bermuda, a Caribean paradise resort, also has its contrasting 'spare labor' of Haitian boat refugees. And a sea-life disaster because of a poisonous fish escaped form a Florida aquarium.
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