Sahara with Michael Palin (2002)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Michael Palin goes on a three-month, 10,000-mile journey across the Sahara Desert. He visits multiple countries in Northern and Western Africa, meets local people and sees historic and natural sites along the route.

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What happens

Sahara with Michael Palin is a four-part BBC television series presented by British comedian and travel presenter Michael Palin, and first broadcast on BBC One from 13 October to 3 November 2002. In it, Palin travelled around the Sahara in Northern and Western Africa, meeting people and visiting places. The journey route included the following countries and territories: Gibraltar, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Ceuta, Spain. These countries/territories and the entire Sahara area are vast. For example, Algeria is four times the size of France or three times the size of Texas. The Sahara is roughly the same size as the United States, and the trip covered 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometres) and lasted three months. A book by the same name written by Palin was published to accompany the series. This book contained both Palin's text and many pictures by Basil Pao, the stills photographer on the team. Basil Pao also produced a separate book of the photographs he took during the journey, Inside Sahara, a large coffee-table style book printed on glossy paper. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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