After last week's powerful opener, this series just gets better and better. Tonight, there's more tremendous footage of awesome landscapes and fascinating creatures, along with intriguing archive film as the programme focuses on Yunnan Province. It's the area that is said to have inspired the legend of Shangri-La - a lost-world paradise hidden among mountain peaks.
The area is quite unique as it has a very wide range of climates. Up in the chilly mountain forests there are elusive - and very cute - red pandas (pictured) along with the highest-living monkeys in the world. Meanwhile in the valleys below, ancient tribes live in the luxuriant jungles. Gibbons, colourful birds and wild elephants are also present, in an area where normally deserts would be found.
Quite how the jungle survives here at all is fascinating in itself, and, as the documentary explains, the area's rugged landscape holds the key.
All in all, another strong programme that's well worth catching.
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