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Alice Morrison, Arabist and explorer, journeys beneath the veil along Africa's infamous salt roads from Morocco via the Sahara Desert to the legendary city of Gold, Timbuktu.
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Episode 1
69 mins
Alice sets off from Tangier, where she learns about the gold mines of sub-Saharan Africa, and then on to Fes, home to the world's oldest university. Next she takes the Marrakech Express to the great market town before trekking through snow and storms across the mighty Atlas Mountains and exploring forgotten ruins on the edge of the Sahara Desert.