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Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure: Episode Two

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30/06/2018 GMT

Episode Two

Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure

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Alice continues her journey as she treks in the snow across the Atlas Mountains.

Alice continues her journey from Marrakech as she treks in the snow across the Atlas Mountains. Further south she makes her way to the ancient city of Sijilmasa.

This week Alice continues her travels, and as she treks through the barren, unforgiving heat of the Jebel Saghro desert, she enlists the help of Berber nomads. They still graze their animals there and live the same traditional lifestyle. They help her on her way to the ancient city of Sijilmasa, whose amazing forgotten ruins sit on the edge of the great Sahara Desert. It is a lost city, which was once a great trading post, a sanctuary for merchants arriving after the long trek across the Sahara from Timbuktu.

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Alice Morrison journeys along Africa's infamous salt roads from Morocco to Timbuktu.

Alice Morrison, Arabist and explorer, journeys along Africa's infamous salt roads from Morocco via the Sahara Desert to the legendary city of Gold, Timbuktu.

Alice Morrison, Arabist and explorer, journeys along Africa's infamous salt roads from Morocco via the Sahara Desert to the legendary city of Gold, Timbuktu.
Timbuktu - a place so mysterious, mythical and far, far away that it has become a legendary destination. Alice Morrison, Arabist, writer, explorer and Marrakech resident, follows what was once one of the world's richest trading networks - the infamous salt roads - across north Africa from the top of Morocco to the fabled sandstone city of Timbuktu. Trekking 2,000 miles across some of the deadliest landscapes on earth, Alice journeys deep into the history, culture and civilisation of both ancient and modern north Africa..

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