Travelers Bobby Chinn, Zay Harding, Katie Haswell, Holly Morris and Ian Wright span the Asian subcontinent to illustrate the story of the rise and fall of the once mighty British Empire. Bobby Chinn learns about India s sp... more »ices from guide Suleiman, while Zay Harding explores the Bombay Fort of Murud Janira, and tours Kolkata, indulging in the luxuries of British colonial life. Ian Wright visits the royal Fort of Agra and the Taj Mahal and goes to Delhi. Zay Harding travels to Lucknow, where Hindu and Muslims sparked a rebellion in the private regiments of the East India Company. Ian Wright then tours the Rashtraprati Bhavan, house of the President of India, and the former abode of the British Viceroys. Zay Harding tours Mumbai s Heritage mile, while Katie Haswell visits the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Zay then rides the Indian railway, while Holly Morris enjoys the coffee shops of Kolkata, where the National Congress was born. Zay travels to Motihari, where Gandhi enjoined the indigo workers protest against their British landlords. Zay then visits Gandhi s home in Gandevi, to learn about Gandi s philosophy of peaceful means of winning India independence. Zay discovers how Congress and Gandhi combined to lead the nation into a defining Quit India movement, while Ian Wright visits the historic Imperial hotel in Delhi. Zay boards a train at Amritsar, while Holly Morris visits the Coronation memorial in Delhi, now a crumbling graveyard of British Viceroy statues. Holly Morris then enjoys a Kolkata horse race and Ian Wright wins at a game of cricket against England s mightiest foe in the sporting field, India, of course. Along the way... Explore the East India Company of Calcutta, a hundred years after the victories of Robert Clive of India. Indulge in a British cream tea and a ride on a hand-pulled rickshaw. Experience the Great Exhibition of 1851, when the glories of the Indian Empire are on display.« less