Holidays in the Danger Zone: Meet the Stans

Tajikistan (1x4)

Air date: Nov 06, 2008

Sharing an 800-mile border with Afghanistan, which provides 90% of Europe's heroin, Tajikistan is one of the world's biggest drug trafficking routes. Simon joins a drugs raid, visits a warehouse with £100 million worth of heroin, and gets drunk with the conscripts who survive on just $5 a month while patrolling the Afghan border, one of the most dangerous in the world.