The show was will be dotted around almost anywhere across the uk today. Call sort of day, out and show was brewing. 16 in london, 13, 1a for most of us. Clear dry night, clear morning, damages will be ranging from four or five morning, damages will be ranging from four orfive in morning, damages will be ranging from four or five in the north to seven 01 from four or five in the north to seven or eight in the south. And sunday promises to be a sunny day. Cool. No showers in the forecast, dry most of the time from dusk till dawn, might get the odd one developing across eastern parts but overall, it is a fine day on sunday. Good morning, this is bbc news. The headlines the government Reassures Gibraltar after spain was accused of using brexit to advance its claim over the rock. Bbc news learns that only five percent of prison staff in england and wales will get new Pay Allowances of up to £5,000. A pay increase for over two million, as the National Living wage goes up. Protestors in paraguay Storm Congress as the president tries to change the constitution to sit for re election. Now on bbc news, its time for The Travel Show. Hello and welcome to The Travel Show, coming this week from the historic City Of Canterbury in southern england. Im here to take a look back at some of the Great Stories we have clocked up already in 2017. And so far, its been a great year. Its actually quite difficult to walk through here. Its so busy. I only learned to ski for the first time two weeks ago. Its definitely not recommended if you are a little bit claustrophobic. Wow if you touch it four times, youre going to be in love and married inside of six months. Now one of the things we really pride ourselves on here at The Travel Show is taking you off the beaten path, to find destinations you may not find in your average guidebook. Lets kick of the programme with some fantastic recent stories that certainly tick that box. In a moment, we look back at a truly astonishing sight that rajan caught a Glimpse Of In Myanmar back in january. And then we check out some long abandoned Military Tunnels in russia that carmen went to explore. But first, we sent henry off to turkey to see an Archaeological Dig that is revealing some fascinating insights about that countrys past. In the heart of nevsehir, among the modern houses and office buildings, workers made a startling find as they cleared a hillside for redevelopment. The largest underground city of its kind. Excavations have revealed these openings dug into the side of the hill. Experts estimate the caves could extend over 450,000 square metres. Wow look at all of this. Ifind it quite hard to believe that there were People Living on top of here, and all of this was actually hidden. So they had no idea that this was here . No. That is insane. That ceiling is rather unique, isnt it . Whats all this . This is a monastery. And according to the scientists, the monastery dates back to the sixth century. You can definitely see the outline across there. This region was very important for the early christians. Turkey is the single country on earth which has got the function of a bridge which is connecting two continents together. Asia to europe, europe to asia. Nearly 30 different civilisations have passed through this country. Those early civilisations leave some remains. There are plans to turn sections of the cave network into an archaeological park with Art Galleries and boutique hotels. Authorities hope to open it to the public in 2018, when visitors can see the excavations in their full glory. Look at this. These caves are home to 9,000 buddhist statues, some Dating Back Hundreds of years. They are all brought and donated by devotees hoping for a blessing. Its just buddhas galore and they are made of, what . What material underneath the gold . Like a mortar. Concrete. So by making a buddha image, what do the people hope happens in terms of buddhism . Does it give them a better life after life . So this is like a good deed. Like merit making . Yeah. And maybe the next existence, they can get a better place, you know. They believe in levels of beings. They want to be like an apple and to live in one day. Wow vladivostok in russias far east is home to more than half a Million People. And it is no stranger to traffic jams, partly because there is no Subway System here. But what do lie beneath vladivostoks hills are the remnants of what used to be one of the most powerful maritime fortresses in the world. Abandoned for decades, some areas are now open to tourists. This is vladimir. He is an author whose interest in vladivostoks military past was sparked as a young boy growing up in this area. Is this where you used to come as a child . Yeah. Today, vladimir and i are exploring his childhood stomping ground, also known as stronghold number one. So those holes there, were they for the guns . Yeah. There were holes for quickfire guns. At the turn of the 20th century, Czarist Russia went to war with japan over who controlled korea and manchuria to the south, and the waters surrounding them. Vladivostok was home to the Imperial Russian fleet, and that made it a potential target. Vladimir, why was vladivostok such an important Military Point . Well, it was the only gate of russia in the pacific region. And it was the only port on the Russian Pacific shore connected with siberia and other russia by trans siberian railway. Wow, i didnt expect the ceilings to be so high. Yeah. It was proposed for shelter of peoples, and thats why they have a lot of space. Although many of the Military Structures in vladivostok are still derelict, its great to see more people getting interested in them. These structures that once aimed to make vladivostok impregnable, deserve to be preserved. Carmen going underground in russia back injanuary. Now where do you think is the best place in the world to meet a potential love match . Well, if you are irish, it could be a little place on the west coast. Oh, lisdoonvarna. Lisdoon, lisdoon, lisdoon, lisdoonvarna. The Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival is europes largest singles event, attracting up to 60,000 people each year. Its been a local tradition for 160 years. The festival was originally designed to help find wives for lonely farmers at the end of the harvest season. For the past half century, willie daly has been the towns matchmaker in chief, using skills passed down from his father and grandfather. The process is this. Would you like to have children if all goes well . I think so, eventually, yeah. Punters fill out their details and tell willie about themselves and what they would like in a partner. I have you down there as good looking and nice. Then, once the 20 euros fee is paid, willie will attempt to find them a match. Joes a little farmer. He has his own farmer. 0k. I had my doubts. I may still have doubts. But i thought i would give it a whirl, why not . Not everyone attending the festival is single. Many couples who met here in years past, return to celebrate and dance the Night And Day away. Please help me im falling. But most of the folk here are looking for love. We want to find the one. So far we havent. But you know what, there is such a good buzz around. Its a great atmosphere. Its a fantastic community. Its brilliant. We would like to find someone with a bit of land, a nice personality, not bad looking. Were not fussy. We have to find the right match. There are no shortage of options for the ladies here. Is there anybody out there . Now if i were to ask you, whats the most famous thing about italy . The chances are you would say its food. And most of their best pasta dishes contain meat of some sort. But not if the new mayor of turin has her way, as rajan found out recently. Food is notjust a matter of eating. It is a matter of having knowledge of what you eat. How you eat it, where you eat it. And also about the story of what youre eating. So its about health, its a matter of respecting environment. So when we talk about vegetarianism, we are talking about what it means to have a food policy, and what it means to having knowledge of what you are eating. Are you a vegetarian . No, im not. Among the proposals are a vegetarian map for tourists. One meat free day a week. And teaching children about Animal Welfare and ecology. As a non meat eater myself, im curious as to how realistic the proposals are. According to the mayors office, there are already at least 30 vegan and vegetarian restaurants like this one in turin. But she wants many more. We want to propose something new, something different. We study a lot about different kinds of ingredients, or techniques. A lot of dishes inside Italian Culture are vegan, but people dont know. People eat spaghetti and tomatoes and think about spaghetti and tomatoes. But its a vegan plate. Do you know what i mean . So its natural in italian food . Yeah. Yeah, its really easy. This soup is a cream made with potatoes. Luka got into veganism through the punk scene when he was young. This is vegan parmesan. And he feels turin is ahead of the game on eating trends. We have to carve the truffle. Its not easy, i know. One of the most famous and the first vegan festival in italy was in turin. Like the first gay pride was in turin. I think its like a really european and open minded city. Mmm. Sumptuous. Rajan in turin. It will be interesting to see how the mayors plan turns out. Dont go away, because theres plenty more to come here on The Travel Show. Addy takes to the decks in london. Im and carmen busts some moves in peru, which could give any Break Dancer A Spin for their money. But first, whats claimed to be the largest floating village in the world. We sent henry to brunei to check it out. Along the brunei river lies kampong ayer. Its made a up of 4000 stilted buildings and over 18 miles of walkways. To get over to the floating village over there, you have to take these water taxis, which only cost 1. But its very choppyjust because of the volume of water. Its a channel, almost. There is a lot of wind, a lot of these whitecaps that you can see. The older section of the village still features plenty of wooden buildings and walkways. Its not as pristine as the modern section. But it has its own charm. Wow what a beautiful boat. So you made this . So, so big. How many generations have your family been in the industry . Just like that. It fits perfectly. This stunning entrance is the opening to the caves. Its two to Three Million years old. Once inside, you can explore the caves by using the specially how many generations have your family been in the industry . Just like that. It fits perfectly. This stunning entrance is the opening to the caves. Its two to Three Million years old. Once inside, you can explore the caves by using the specially constructed walkways and take yourjourney back in time. Despite oman being arid most of the year, the countrys pockmarked with river beds which can flood very quickly when it rains. And Flash Flooding back and 2014 sent Water Gushing into the caves, submerging most of them and closing the complex down to tourists. Just over two years on, and the water is being pumped out, returning the caves to theirformer glory. I could stare at these rocks for ages. That looks like a lions head. I swear it looks like a lions head you can see its mane. Theres a bit of its mouth. Its bizarre. As you venture deeper and deeper into the caves, the walkways get longer and the stairs get steeper. Look at that but after coming all this way, im determined to see as much as i can. This is like being back at my mum and dads old councilflat. Youve got to be pretty able to get around this cave. Sadly though, it doesnt look like im really cut out to be a caveman. Its like a proper training work out. Wow look over there, its just stairs flights and flights of stairs. I think my Cave Dwelling is over now. This is enough for me. To finish off our look back at some of the recent best bits of The Travel Show, heres a selection of stories that seem to be the producers favourites. Those are the ones where presenters get pushed way out of their comfort zone and have to try something new. Well, i didnt have to travel far from here in canterbury to try a spot of champing recently. All will be revealed in a moment. Im and neither did addy, when he tried his hand playing a set in one of londons most famous nightclubs. We sent carmen all the way to peru and wanted her to try her hand at scissor dancing. Im here for a spot of champing church camping. Its available at 12 historic venues around the country. Beautiful ancient sites that are rarely, if ever, used as places of mass worship any more. Thats a very big hotel room. Money raised from letting champers like me stay, means the crumbling buildings are spared a slow inevitable decline. Somebody at the pub just told me that tonight is supposed to be the coldest night of the year. So thats good, as i head into My Unheated Church Room for the night. Ive got my. Air bed. Sleeping bag. So ivejust got into bed. And its quite comfy, actually. I feel quite cosy, given how cold it is. I can see my breath. I am going to try to go to sleep now. And try and forget that im entirely surrounded by graves. It is quite cold, notably quite cold. I think theres a jolly good reason that champing is only done during the summer. Deciding to come champing at the dead of winter was a really terrible idea. Youve got your Volume Controls here. Youve got your highs, mides and lows. Your bass knob. This is the big bass knob. Give it some sibilance. Straighten it out. With the technology today, it gives you much more flexibility to take risks and do things that you couldnt do in the old days with vinyl. So could you put a Classic Opera track with some hip hop . Yes. Beethoven wrote most of his music in 120 bpm. So he was one of the first house djs. Beethoven knew what he was talking about he dropped beats. He did. And a lot of his stuff was dance music speed. All right, lets do this then. 0k. One, two, three, four. Two, two, three, four. Three, two, three. Four, two, three, four. Bingo im now time to see if all that training has worked. Its the moment of truth. Ill tell you what i will say, its very loud in here. Now fortunately, its still early, so the pressure is off a little bit. And im getting the hang of things. By the end of the night ive got the house rocking. The origin of the Peruvian Scissor Dance is shrouded in mystery. But many believe the tradition began in the highlands of the andes as an act of worship to the mountain gods. Now its importance in perus history has been recognised by unesco. And its backbreaking moves would put many break dancers to shame. First, ive got to get to grips with the scissors. The aim is to hit the handles together in time to the music. The blunt blades arent connected, so holding them in position is really tricky. There is no way im going to be able to do this, and coordinate my feet. And its not just mastering the scissors. This is the one that makes your knees bleed. Learning the dance moves takes some serious commitment. After a few minutes, im exhausted. I cant even imagine how hard it would be to do these moves up in the andes, where the thin air makes everything so much harder. These guys are true athletes. Carmen there, trying a spot of scissor dancing. And as they say, folks, dont try that one at home. Well, thats all weve got time from this weeks show. Coming up next week. Henry is hitting the canals of bangkok to find out whats being done to clean up the citys waterways. So much polystyrene, old teddy bears, mattresses. Have a look at that. So dojoin us then if you can. In the meantime, dont forget you can keep up with us while were out on the road in real time, by signing up to our social media feeds. But for now, from me, christa larwood, and the rest of The Travel Show team in canterbury, its goodbye. Certainly not been sunny all round this morning, some of us woke up to quite heavy rain, particularly if you live in wales, North Western parts of england, today we have sunshine and showers on the way. Here is the cloud that brought rain across the south west into wales in particular and the northwest, many central and eastern areas woke up to sunshine. Today, real mixed bag in the afternoon, so hit and miss showers, we get the sunny spells but then maybe a downpour as well. Lets ta ke then maybe a downpour as well. Lets take a closer look across southern parts of the uk, around the middle of the afternoon, hit and miss showers, some of them fail and thunder as well, coastal areas doing pretty good, heading off to bournemouth, bright and, pretty good, heading off to bournemouth, brightand, looking pretty good, heading off to bournemouth, bright and, looking out to see it will be clear and blue, looking in, big showers growing. Lots of breaks between the showers, you can see the definite blogs here and there, some of us may get a downpour with pale, others will be dry, staying dry through the day, consider yourself lucky. Showers will start to fade during the course of the evening, certainly by the time we get to eight or nine oclock, very few around, then we will be left with clear skies overnight, quite chilly this coming night, just about cold enough for grass frost across Northern Areas of the uk, but to the south, it will be a little bit milder, 8 degrees in norwich and london. Sunday, very different day, two very different days, from a showery saturday to a much sunny sunday. This High Pressure means the weather on sunday should be sunny from morning until the afternoon and evening, from dawn till dusk. And fine wherever you are. Scattered clouds, temperatures will be more or less what we get on saturday, but the fact there will be more sunshine around, less rain, it will feel a little bit warmer, 16 in london, little bit cooler on the coasts. And also, on sunday, we have the boat race, oxford versus cambridge, tradition there, partly cloudy sky, sunshine around, temperature in the mid teens. We can forecast, april showers today, hit and miss, chilly night on the way, then a sunny sunday. Enjoy. This is bbc news. The headlines at 11 britain says it will protect gibraltar from any sovereignty claims by spain during brexit negotiations. The foreign secretary borisjohnson tweeted his support the uk remains implacable and rock like in our support for gibraltar. Only 5 of existing prison staff in england and wales will get new Pay Allowances of £5,000 pounds, bbc news learns. Two Million People will get a pay rise today, says the government, as the uks National Living wage goes up. Also coming up, protests in paraguay over efforts to change the rules allowing the president to run for office again. Protesters Storm Congress and set fire to the building as anger giows over moves to change the constitution. And in half hour, discussion about the triggering of article 50 you