Joanna Lumley heads off to the Banda Islands in Indonesia, which traded in nutmeg. In the capital Jakarta, 200 million residents smoke clove cigarettes.
Joanna Lumley returns to her birthplace, India, to investigate the 'black gold' pepper. She then travels down to Kerala where a great grandmother teaches the oldest martial art, and spends the night in a houseboat of the old spice traders.
Joanna Lumley's spice journey continues to Madagascar where the second most expensive spice, vanilla, is grown. She ends on the island of Nosy Be where the men practice another martial art and the women are working towards female equality.
Joanna's journey takes her by dhow to Zanzibar, the spice island, and on to the plains of Wadi Rum, Jordan, by camel, meeting one of the last nomadic Bedouin families. She ends at the ancient city of Petra, one of the wonders of the world.
