Comedian-turned-travel documentary-maker Michael Palin has suggested this year’s offering, In The Philippines, may be his last foray overseas.

The 83-year-old actor, writer and presenter first found fame as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe, but for the past four decades has been best known for his award-winning travel programs and books.

While promoting his latest travel book, In the Philippines, the companion to his latest three-part documentary, Palin revealed he is unsure whether he’ll continue travelling internationally for work.

“I’m at the stage of not knowing whether I’m going to travel again,” Palin told journalist Mishal Husain on Bloomberg in the UK in an interview aired in the weekend.

“The journey is becoming increasingly difficult and I found, especially after the Philippines, that I was very, very exhausted,” he said.

The interview was aired after veteran actor and presenter was forced to cancel a scheduled book tour after a fall at his London home.

Starting with 1989’s acclaimed Around the Word in 80 Days, Palin has made 13 serialised travel documentaries, visiting places as far flung as the North Pole, North Korea, Iraq, the Himalayas and the Saharas.

While his book of In the Philippines is available in Australia, no broadcast or streaming date has been released.

Palin filmed in the Philippines earlier this year. Photo: Michael Palin/BBC

Palin said that he still may travel the UK for work, but that international journeys were becoming more of a question mark.

“I mustn’t grumble because I am very, very lucky,” he said.

“When I’m in the place I’m in, I’m absolutely happy. I’ve never been somewhere and felt, ‘why am I doing this?’.”

Asked if his feelings about overseas travel may be exacerbated by his visits to destinations “off the tourist track”, Palin said he might agree.

“We’ve coined [them] ‘countries on the edge’,” he said.

“They’re countries where something has happened – usually something bad – and they’re either recovering or they’re about to face up to it. And that makes it much more intriguing. It’s not just a place of entertainment.”

Last year, Palin revealed that he and his film crew had been held at gunpoint while filming a travelogue in Venezuela for the BBC.

He said that, in a “bizarre” turn of events, the guards eventually found his name online through a Google search while the crew was “waiting to hear our fate” from the Venezuelan national security service, SEBIN, headquarters in Caracas.

Bloomberg’s Palin interview was recorded shortly before he was forced to pull out of a planned tour for his new book due to an injury.

On October 13 (local time), he announced on Instagram that a nationwide tour and “any other events” he had planned over the coming months had been cancelled.

“My accident was quite unsensational, a slip in the family bathroom where I’ve walked for 58 years,” he wrote.

“I fell heavily on my left side resulting in three fractured ribs and a minor pelvic fracture. The recovery of bone fractures takes a long time, especially when you’re 83.”