Gardening Australia

Join us on nonstop journey by air over one of Asia's most exotic and breathtaking nations, Indonesia. With more than 17,500 islands, this is the world's largest archipelago. Discover its menacing volcanoes, its impenetrable jungles and wondrous waters. The true spirit and rich culture of its people is unravelled in age-old festivals and celebrations.

Julia is travelling across South Australia following The Explorer's Way, one of the world's great road trips. She discovers Coober Pedy, a mining town where the residents live in underground homes dug out of the soft rock. Julia checks into Shelley's Underground Beauty Salon and meets beauty therapist Shelley and husband Rod, who is a retired opal miner.

This program takes an epic aerial journey across this vast nation to showcase its dramatic landscape and enormous population in all its myriad colours, shapes, and intrigues. From ancient marvels like the stepwells of Rajasthan, to modern-day engineering feats like the city of Gurgaon, all the diversity, history, and modernity of this mysterious land will be on display in a roller-coaster aerial ride that reveals this ancient civilisation that has survived through multiple millennia, given birth to four major religions, hosts no shortage of awe-inspiring natural and man-made wonders, and is striding into the future with new found confidence.