After receiving word that he has been chosen as the United States ambassador for the coronation durbar for King Mahendra in Nepal, Lowell Thomas boards a Globemaster plane and passes over Paris, the Suez Canal and Persian Gulf ports en route. Several of the sites included in this travelogue are: the Temple of Lankatilaka in Ceylon, the village of Hunza near the Himaylayan Mountains where villagers play drums, a boating excursion on the rapids of the Indus River, crowed streets of Katmandu and the Shalimar Gardens near Kashmir where Thomas meets U.S. Air Force major Steve Shaw and sergeant James S. Parker. Arriving in Nepal, Thomas notes that Communist Chinese delegates are in attendance for the coronation and over 20 elephants are in the celebration's procession. The picture concludes when the tour ends at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.