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Sahara: Line in the Sand

37 min

Sahara: Destination Timbuktu

37 min

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Sahara: Absolute Desert

37 min

Sahara: Dire Straights

37 min

Travels with Palin

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Sahara: Absolute Desert

Season 6 · Episode 3 · Oct 27, 2002

Michael Palin did make it to the mysterious Timbuktu, and this episode opens with views of the famous mosque built of mud. Palin talks to the imam, who shows Palin documents indicating that Muslim scholars had discovered that the Earth circled the Sun at least 100 years before Europeans figured it out. After this Palin joins a tribe of Wodaabe nomads on their way to Ingal (in Niger) to participate in the Cure Salée festival. He talks to a young Wodaabe man named Doulla and to Céline, a young French woman who is also following along with the group. The subject of polygamy is again raised, and we see the unusual courting rituals of the Wodaabe. Here the young girls choose the man they would like to try out, while the young men stand in a line dancing and rolling their eyes and looking very feminine (by Western standards) with lots of makeup. At Tabelot Palin visits an oasis, where a camel is used to raise water from a deep well using a long rope and a goatskin bucket.

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Travels with Palin

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Sahara: Absolute Desert

Season 6 · Episode 3 · Oct 27, 2002

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