reported across 11 countries outside africa where it s most common. first identified in monkeys, the disease typically spreads through close contact. a very good saturday morning to you. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week on the travel show: waiting for the backpackers return. we have beautiful temples and a lot of beautiful places around cambodia. so it is something that they should come and have a look at in their lifetime. following my nose in amsterdam. oh, it s lovely! a really good air freshener. and we go inside the world s largest crystal cave. hello and welcome to amsterdam, the famous city of canals. a little later, i will be sniffing my way around town to find out about new efforts to create a catalogue of historic odours and not all of them pleasant. but first. we re starting in cambodia, at the vast and ancient buddhist temple complex of angkor wat. it s the world s largest religious site. normally attracting around 2.5 million people every year. pre pa
as you walk around the city. the best part is you get to eat them too. mm, it s good. scientists say there is a link between smell, memory and emotion. and now they re using that connection to enhance our travels. in fact, one group has started amassing a library of historical smells in an attempt to bring them back to life. the plan is to use them in museums and on walking tours. may i come round here? come round here. what an incredible place. isn t it wonderful? is it all original? it s more of a grocery and an apothecary. the project isn t based in amsterdam by accident. this city, she argues, is a rich hunting ground for ancient pongs. so, i guess back then, amsterdam would have been
don t waive it to close! don t waive it too close! it s not great! is that what the canal would have smelled like here? there are indeed elements of, yeah, polluted canal smell. so it has sulphur. it has a kind of bathroom smell, yeah. yes. excrement, your own. excrement, urine components in there. also, the sulphuric component leads you to the military, the gunpowder that was actually stored in this building. this is the headquarters or used to be the headquarters of the dutch admiralty, so they were the the military force that went with the east india company to actually enforce labour, to make use of all kinds of violence to get that luxury spice trade into the dutch republic. this isn tjust a touristic novelty. time, money and expertise have been spent making these smells as accurate as possible.
we have beautiful temples, and a lot of beautiful places around cambodia, so it is something that they should come and have a look in their lifetime. welcome back to the netherlands. this week, i m in what s always been one of europe s busiest city destinations. oh, so many to choose from. amsterdam. when i travel, one of the first things i notice about a place tends to be the smells. and often, it s one of the strongest memories when i go home too, like the scent of a venetian canal or a middle eastern spice market. here in amsterdam the smell i identify with this place tends to be these things, stroopwaffels. cinnamon and caramel, you sort of get it in the air
so some of that leather kind of comes through sometimes. so it s notjust nice. yeah, there is a bit of a pong. there s a sort of like a gentle edge of a bit. animalistic as well. yeah. what s really interesting is knowing the history, it smells like one smell masking another smell. yeah. but it s notjust a novelty. inga s keen to show me how the walking tours that have been planned can offer a whole new layer of historical details. this is where the dutch east india company used to unload silk, spices, herbs and tobacco from all over the world. in the 17th century, there must have been a lot to smell. smell this scent that we also created. do i wave it? wave it under your nose. 0oh!