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Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure: Episode Four

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Morocco To Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure

14/07/2018 GMT

Episode Four

Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure

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This week Alice Morrison flies the last leg of her journey into Timbuktu.

This week Alice Morrison flies the last leg of her journey into Timbuktu and relives its glorious past with a visit to its world-famous mosques.

This week Alice Morrison flies the last leg of her journey into Timbuktu. When she finally reaches the City of Gold, Alice relives its glorious past with a visit to its world-famous mosques, the last surviving treasures of a bygone era. In the oldest of them, the Djinguereber mosque, she hears the tale of Mansa Musa, Mali's greatest king and the richest man in history.

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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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