South and Central Asia

Welcome to All Around This World's online journey around South and Central Asia! This season we take a trip around South and Central Asia that begins in India and proceeds clockwise around the region, going as far north as Tuva and as far east as Western China before ending in Bhutan. We change imaginary lightbulbs while dancing in India, hold our breath and pretend to tackle our friends in Pakistan, spin tirelessly in Afghanistan and use our hands to tell a tale about an Uzbek squirrel. In Kyrgyzstan we praise a warrior and his horse, in Tuva we make the strangest of singing sounds, and in Kazakhstan and Western China we build then tear down an imaginary house. In Tibet we dance in circles, in Nepal we climb (and climb and climb), and we end our journey in Bhutan where we'll bid farewell to rain by avoiding being hit by a several-foot-long dart. And will we have good times?

Oh yes, we shall.